21 November 2003: Sacred Clown Zoo

In her journal entry this morning, Yoko wrote:

I love looking at the referrer log to see how my site has been accessed. Among the links from my friends' sites (which I'm always pleased to see), there are those from search engines, which shows what words were used for the search. Looking at these search words is part of the joy of having a publicly accessible website [...]

She then went on to list the search terms that people had used to access her site in the past day.

Which has inspired me to do the same, in the hope of starting a trend (which for all I know might have been Yoko's intention in the first place). With any luck, Lila will get sucked into the trend, and we'll get to see what sort of twisted pornographic search terms are landing people at her site these days.

My server logs don't break the search terms list down by day, I just get an overall list of terms used each month, plus how many times they've been used that month (most are unique, but some are consistently popular). So instead of an "in the past day" list, you get a "most frequently used search terms" list and a "most interesting search terms this month" list.

The search term that brings people to my site most often is "moon haiku." This has been the most popular one every single month for as long as I've been checking. So far this month, It's occurred nine times.

In addition to "moon haiku," the most frequently occurring search terms in my logs are:

• four virtues

• dragon haiku

• monkey haiku

• hypnogogic

• aikido religion

• queen of disks

• mullah nasrudin

 

And here are some of this month's more interesting ones:

• the problem with haiku

• disgusted with women

• these things are fun and fun is good

• what is taarna's last name

• dragon belches

• monkey kickboxing

• monkey bridge psychically

• armed monkey horsemen

• sacred clown zoo

• 12-step clowns

• clown interrogation links

 

Okay, time to head out for my very last day at my tutoring job.

Maybe I should do one of these lists every month...

Now look what you've started, Yoko!