What are folks looking for when they find… me?

While poking around in my blog stats, I noticed something peculiar: quite a few people are now finding my site by googling “nazi swastika.” I thought this was weird because the only thing about it I’ve ever written was the entry I posted on June 9th - a mere 2 days ago - about Nazi swastikas in video games. Lo and behold, though - thanks to the way Google’s PageRank system works (System13.org has a 5PR out of 10) - my post about swastikas in video games is now the 8th result on Google for “nazi swastika.” I’m not sure whether to be glad that Google’s system thinks my site is worth something, or to be concerned about my position in the search results for those keywords.

System 13 ranks pretty high for some other… “interesting” searches. A few examples:

• I’m #4 on Google for “rotten shark.”
• #6 for “ninja penguin.”
• #7 for “hardwood floors and dogs.”
• #10 for “I can has cheezburger.” (Heh…)
•  #3 for “stargate languages.”
• #2 for “stargate everyone speaks english.”

Don’t take this post the wrong way. I’m not being narcissistic (at least, no more than any other blogger…) - I just find a lot of those funny. If you could dig into my stats, you’d probably be surprised at just how much traffic I get from searches like that. In particular, I seem to get at least a few hits every day by someone who’s looking for information about Icelanders eating rotten shark meat which has been soaked in shark urine. I’m not kidding.

You internet folk… you’re some weird people!