Pit bulls, owl quotes, and guilty babies
Thursday, September 27, 2012 As long-time readers may have noticed—because of postings here and here, to name a few—I'm continually amused and sometimes even touched by the search terms that lead people to Grandma's Briefs.
Time again for me to share with you those that most make me go "Huh?"
First off, let me say that other than phrases related to grandmas and grandsons, always at the top of the query list for my site is pit bull. Why? Well, my dog Mickey is part pit bull (other part pointer). I occasionally blog about him. Apparently a lot of people are searching—be it out of love, fear, or disdain—for information on animals that look and act much like my Mickey. All I can figure is I need to start another blog, perhaps called Pit Bull Briefs. I have no doubt, according to my list of query terms, that it would be quite popular—at least on the search engines.
Other than pit bull, here are some of my more curious queries in the last week, plus links to what the unsuspecting searchers ended up being directed to.
I love macaroni — Believe it or not, in the past week I've had not only one person but two who reached Grandma's Briefs by typing that into the Google search bar. I do love macaroni, especially when paired with cheese. I have a feeling my fellow mac lovers were a little disappointed, though, when their love affair led them here.
Owl quotes — I'm not sure how, when, or why someone might think they'd find quotes from owls online (Is it even possible to quote an owl? Do they say anything quote worthy? In a language we'd understand?), but again, not just one but two people got here looking for wisdom from owls. Instead, they got this, which does feature a cool owl photo (not by me), but nothing uttered by an owl, not even a hoo-hoo of any sort.
Scholarships for grandmas — If there is such a thing, I want to sign up, too. Maybe the searcher, if they happen to be reading this, will share the successful results from their search. This sponsored post certainly didn't get them any closer to the pot of gold they were searching for.
Not just a chicken bagel recipe — I've heard of several kinds of bagels but never a chicken bagel. They certainly got something that's not just a chicken bagel recipe when they stumbled upon my Homemade Bagels post.
Guilty baby — This one makes me sad, to be quite honest. Babies are innocent, guiltless beings—even when at their most frustrating. I worry why one might search for that term and what they plan to do to the baby they assume is guilty. It's even more disconcerting when seeing that three people used that specific search term and ended up on Grandma's Briefs. I hope they thought twice about the guilt of the child in question when they were met with my post on being a guilt-ridden grandma.
So not guilty!
"Stinky diaper" — Yes, it even had the quote marks around it. If a dirty diaper was a challenge for them, I can only imagine what they thought when landing on my Tough (Grand) Mudder post.
Hide in leaves — If you need directions on how to do it, you're seriously missing out on the fallen leaf fun. Bubby had no trouble figuring it out, as evidenced here.
What is one word for not improved — Apparently this person never heard of an online thesaurus. I doubt this post gave them what they sought. Though maybe they enjoyed the photo of Bubby and Mac.
What to write about a grandson's smile — Nothing curious about that one, really. It's just a sweet search. And one that made me smile. I hope what they found here helped them write what they'd hoped to — and made them smile.
Today's question:
What did you last search for online?
Reader Comments (12)
I humbly had to ask google if a meter was longer than a kilometer. It laughed at me and I felt so stupid. Darn third grade homework. I guarantee I will never again forget what kilo means.
Ha! One of my favorite things to do is see what people searched for to find Mayzie's blog. You would think I'd get a ton of hits from pit bull searches, too, but I actually don't get that many. I get a lot of people searching for "Helen Hunt." Imagine their disappointment when they end up on my post about Helen Hunt Falls. My current favorite is "What to get Mayzie for her birthday." Either they're REALLY thinking ahead about what to get my Mayzie or they actually think the InterWebz will magically tell them exactly what to get THEIR Mayzie for her birthday.
Let's see...what DID I search for last? Probably something to do with my cat's itchy rash. :-D
How did we live without Google? My last search was Lightning McQueen ride-on car.
I'm frequently surprised by search terms that land people on our site. Will admit there are a few that utterly disgust me, but overwhelming sweet searches make up for the not so nice ones.
Mickey and your boys are cute in those pictures, whatever a searcher was looking for.
My latest searches were not "weird", being for "Canadian maple trees for sale" and "patterns for baby buntings to knit or crochet".
Funny. This post and the comments. I last searched for electric trains.
I get such a kick seeing the search terms people used that landed them on my blog. "Dining room curtains" is the big one for me!
This morning I searched for kinetic tape for my achilles tendinitis. They use it in physical therapy and it is like magic!
Lisa - how do you even discover that? Part of google analytics? I forget to check those things - but would really be interesting. I saw your post title, because i subscribe to your feed, and with such random topics - I thought, okay, i have to bite. And how funny.
Last thing I google searched - I had to look - it was how to correctly spell blase. Now, how blase is that?
This is an easy one - I searched for information on the Deerfield Fair which is the oldest fair in New England. It started in 1876 when Grant was president.
I imagine it was one of the hundreds of technical questions I seem to ask Google every day about the back end of my blog or Facebook or some other thing I am trying so hard to understand. I need my kids aka tech support to move back home!
Too funny! And a great idea for a blog post. I last searched for "anchoring device for chest-of-drawers" before replying to a comment on my blog about furniture tip-over danger.
These are funny, thanks for sharing! I like to go to google & type in the beginning of a phrase and see what it suggests...they are personalized based on google's knowledge of what you do online, it's kinda funny to see what it thinks! Visiting from Saturday Sharefest, happy Saturday!!
Surely something related to chemistry, since I am taking that in school. What an interesting post! Thank you for sharing, I will have to investigate the same thing on my site!
Visiting from SITS, you have a beautiful family! Have a wonderful weekend!
Mary