BeigeJournal

Being new to this, I still enjoy looking at my web server logs. Yes, I have started getting referrer spam. Currently, it seems to be people hoping to profit from Paris Hilton’s video escapades doing the referrer spamming. I have to say that I’m just kind of amazed by the very notion of referrer spam. It just seems so…lame. It will only get more lame once everyone who still hasn’t pulled down their public recent-referrers listings finally gets around to doing so. But they will still keep spamming us anyway, I’m sure.

What actually interests me are the search terms people us to find my site. The shear number of bots crawling the site is quite amazing as well, so it’s good that people are apparently making use of the information so gathered.

In many cases, I’m sure that I’m providing valuable information. Many people find my bicycle light review, and probably most of them are finding the kind of thing they were looking for. My popular Dirty Jobs entry may or may not be all that people are looking for, but it is probably at least some of what they are looking for. I have some Blosxom weblog software installation advice that may be of some use to people. Probably the people looking for Moleskine info find my article useful, though what the many people looking for expensive pens think of my not-too-exotic Pico described in the same article I don’t know. My book reviews are also perhaps a positive contribution. I know from e-mail and writebacks that some people have found my filk and con reports interesting.

In other cases, I’m sure people are disappointed. I mention nudity occasionally, and, as a nudist, I’m in favor of nudity, but I imagine people are hoping for pictures. I’m not sure my Roy Horn entry is what people are looking for, either.

While in general it is a bad thing to attract people here who are looking for something else, in some cases I am perhaps providing a public service by waylaying people here for a while. Did the “DNS spoofing” person have only purely educational motives at heart? What about “videos of people hurting themselves?”

Some things are much more surprising than people looking for “nude outtakes.” Like “underwater logging.” If someone had asked me a few months ago whether I thought people often typed “underwater logging” into Google, I’d have wondered, “underwater logging?” But I get a few hits a week on my trivial contribution to the subject. I don’t know why.