Lost and Found

One of the most enjoyable sides of blogging is the great joy that the website www.statcounter.com can bring.

As a holder of an MSc in Statistics, the various graphs, stats and analysis that that website brings warms my heart in the nerdiest of ways.

But it is the search function that really gives me a kick. It really opens your eyes to the weird and wonderful people that are out there when the following phrases were punched into Google and some truly random people turned up at my humble blog as a result:

"cathie craigie monklands abstained"

"big enchilada"

"where does Nicol Stephen live?" (Crikey, I should maybe phone the police about that one!)

"biro pen for voting"

"finnish porn" (that's far from being a one-off search item too. 'Mention tits, triple your hits' it seems...)

"how do you know they love you" (aww, bless)

"margaret curran sh" (yes, I wish she would shut up too)

"alex salmond allegiance queen crossed fingers"

"tory lib dem tactical voting get ken out" (that's one vote in the bag for Boris then!)

"snp numpties" (Lord Foulkes has got his broadband up and running then, good stuff)


So that was all fun and games really, but most interestingly, the top search item was Danny Cipriani. This surprises me as I only wrote about the guy last week so I think I'm going to take on an experiment. Try blogging about specific people in the news and see if the hits pick up as a result.

It makes sense really. The egotist in me wants the number of hits to rise and rise and rise. I call it the Tony Blair phenomenon (and if anyone read the fascinating psychological account of Tony and his Hubris Syndrome in the Sunday Times then you'll know what I'm talking about there!)


So, as Big Brother and Euro 2008 kick in this summer. Expect this blog to reach new levels of low-brow chat as my unquenching desire for hits continues...!



And just to increase my chances even further , let me just say Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, naked boobies and sex.

There, that should be a good extra hundred Google hits today alone!!