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‘Ill cheat codes’, and more!

If you don’t know already, you should probably be told that one of the pieces of information passed by most browsers to a server is the address of the page with the link that got you there. This is called the “Referrer”. I have two years of mcgees.org server logs at my disposal, and was able to run a search for all the Google queries that people used to reach my site. I have posted a page containing all the search queries. It’s quite large, so you’ll have to wait a few moments for it to download.

Many are quite amusing, some are frightening (consider the ten searchers looking for rape images), others are downright bizarre. You have to wonder about a search for bitmap images of badgers, or calculus project “differential equations” “dr. jekyll”, or coca cola kidney stone cure, or essential tremor bicycle, or (what could this even mean?) notebook fall asleep even typing linux. There is the poor sod who didn’t know that Google limits your searches to ten words, and searched for cheat codes how you can get the star and the shoes and how to get into unlocked door you get from nana luigis mansion, which must relate to some video game (Any insight, Dave?) And there is the amusingly phrased ill cheat codes for tony hawk playstation.

Then there are the people who must think the computer is psychic. There is the person who searched for what do i do if my printer will not pick up paper, makes a grinding noise, panel lights blink, and the person who looked for pictures of rachel a girl who died from heroin a few weeks ago. I was also introduced to the search word “fakes”, wherein the search consists of, say, Jennifer Garner fakes. Judging by the fact that all of the people searched for are well-known and at least reasonably attractive female entertainers, I gather that “fakes” must be faked — what? — nudie pictures? Pornographic photographs? In addition to Garner, people looked for Alicia Keyes, Amy Brenneman, Callista Flockhart, Mariah Carrey (and Carry, but not Carey), Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jane Kaczmarek, Lucy Liu, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sela Ward, and Sheryl Crow. (Now I’m going to get all sorts of Google hits to this page from people looking for “fakes”. So let me take a moment to say to them, “Fellows, get a life.” And I’m going to get blocked by content filters. Since their users will never see this, it would be pointless to tell them to get a life.)