June 29, 2003
More milestones
Unfortunately, it turns out that because of this post I am the #1 Google hit for (a certain pair of underage teen stars) in (a certain famous nudie mag), in addition to still being #1 for Dancing the Crip Walk and some combination involving "brown recluse spider bites" which I haven't figured out yet. This is sort of the horrible downside to Google. I do like getting traffic, but I wish there was some way I could drive Harper's and Granta readers to my site instead... the people who hit this page are absolutely bathetic morons. Posted by Gus at June 29, 2003 04:53 PM

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Wow, nothing like biting the hand that feeds you, unless by 'this page' you meant Google. ;]

Posted by: at July 9, 2003 7:23 PM

My colleagues raised a really good question - and how did you discover that you were the #1 google hit for the Olsen twins thing?

Posted by: Catherine at July 9, 2003 7:31 PM

I slipped -- I meant "these pages," i.e. the brown recluse and Olsen twins stories. *Not* to be confused with "this site."

Catherine -- basically, it's a matter of wondering why all sorts of people you don't know are suddenly commenting on something, figuring that Google is behind it, and then trying combinations of words to see what brings the story to the top of the Google results.

Posted by: gus at July 9, 2003 7:35 PM

Do you really think they're "humanlike"? I don't.

Posted by: Roger at July 10, 2003 12:43 AM

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