How'd They Get Here? - Progress Pond

Most of us arrived here at Booman Tribune in about the same way – as refugees at one time or the other from the Big Orange Place(tm). Some of you found a link to BT at another blog. Maybe you heard about this place from a friend, family member or co-worker. Some of you ended up here quite by accident.

It’s that last bunch that interests me, so I’ve been collecting search terms via the SiteMeter monitor that we have on the site. (Look waaay down on the right-hand side).

It’s not like I don’t have anything better to do – there’s much goofing off to be had when I’m not writing or reading stuff here. It’s just that I am inherently snoopy, or as I prefer to call it – “curious”.

What initially sparked my curiousity was when Booman let us know that some surfers (disappointed, no doubt) had visited BT after they’d typed “muff shots” into Google. (Try it. You’ll see why BT appeared in the list.)

Anyway, I’ve found some pretty interesting things that have shown up on the site stats, causing people to visit from far and wide.
With no editing whatsoever, here are some of the more interesting things that have been typed into various search engines that have generated links to Booman Tribune:

Google:
has been being
“Quartzite” + “naked guy”
“rocket’s red glare”
MEOW FOUNDATION COMMERCIAL
dylan “change the wind”
how many soldiers make a battalion
what if I am in trouble and would like to join the army
“Antipersonnel Chemical Immobilizers”
You’ve been boo
frozen yam fries
where to build wastelands and sewage system if we were to rebuild New Orleans?
MAILS IN UNITED STATE OF AMERICANP (Arabic language Google)
The amazing difference when women have make up and with no make up.
cartman poops out of his mouth
cockatiel mating sound
fight club, split personality disorder
froggy march and bush
genitilia
“ejaculating on the woman’s face” hostility
spank pledge
“give him a blowjob” +impeach
“annexed by Canada”
mensa eugenics
pre indictment stress syndrome
“Presidential Spokeshole”
Bush Whacked Rove
bad boy bad boys what you gonna do when they come for you

Yahoo!:
Anderson Cooper’s dog
Deadwood language squarehead hoopleheads
flaming hot lay’s
“prepare for your death”
the survey you can’t be all you can be
pastors’ salaries at mega churchs a big secret
u2 concerts blog spiritual
fantasy mosquito nets for beds
melanin third eye black people
homeland security sesame street dumb America
sex [pctures from japan
“farting fish”

MSN Search:
YOU HAVE BEEN BOO
+”Necrotizing FAsciitis” +”expert witness”

All The Web:
paula zahn glasses

I’m addicted now. Who knows? Maybe this will become a regular update of mine to the BT community. In the meantime, enjoy!

One more thing: we’ve had visits from the Army, the Air Force, the Pentagon, and even one that I know of from the World Bank – who checked out my John Hannah diary (I think that was Wolfie). No visits from whitehouse.gov yet though. We obviously need to try harder to piss those guys off.

18 Comments

catnip on October 22, 2005 at 10:08 pm

The only remaining question is: how many of them actually stayed? 🙂

katiebird on October 22, 2005 at 10:24 pm

Do you look at the referrals to see the search term?
- catnip on October 22, 2005 at 11:07 pm
  
  Do you look at the referrals to see the search term?
  
  Yes and then just click on any search engine entry.

Tehanu on October 22, 2005 at 10:31 pm

Fascinating diary, but I have one question-

Does this mean BooMan knows I check about 3 bazillion times a day to see if there are any new indictments?

catnip on October 22, 2005 at 11:08 pm

lol – only if Booman knows where you’re coming here from.

sybil on October 22, 2005 at 10:33 pm

L.A.W. Lawyers against the War are charging GWB with torture crimes in BC’s Supreme Court.

http://www.counterpunch.org/davidson10202005.html

catnip on October 22, 2005 at 11:12 pm

Yes, I hadn’t read about it at Counterpunch though. LAW really needs to update their web site! If Bush is convicted at least he’ll never be able to step foot in my country again.
- ejmw on October 22, 2005 at 11:29 pm
  
  If Bush is convicted at least he’ll never be able to step foot in my country again.
  
  Then I’m moving to Canada.
  
  This time, I mean it!
bughouse canuck on October 23, 2005 at 7:46 pm

Wow! This happened in Vancouver? Why haven’t I seen anything about it in the media here? (Completely rhetorical question.)

If I possibly can, I’m going to attend the hearing in November. Lawyers Against the War, you rock!

BrendaStewart on October 22, 2005 at 11:31 pm

I have often wondered if big brother is watching…:o) I think that is kewl…..the pentagon!!!! wished they had stayed and had coffee and chatted for a while…I have a few questions I would love to ask of them…

“We obviously need to try harder to piss those guys off.” Geez, Dear, I am trying very hard…but the problem is I am getting more pissed as time goes on…:o)

Thanks for all your info here..it is fun to know this stuff you come up with.

Connecticut Man1 on October 23, 2005 at 2:15 am

They are always watching everywhere on the Internet:

Colleges Protest Call to Upgrade Online Systems-NYT

The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications.

snip

Recognizing the growth of Internet-based telephone and other communications, the order requires that organizations like universities providing Internet access also comply with the law by spring 2007.

The Justice Department requested the order last year, saying that new technologies like telephone service over the Internet were endangering law enforcement’s ability to conduct wiretaps “in their fight against criminals, terrorists and spies.”

They have always been watching the Internet. The intelligence agencies have developed special software programs that detect “keywords” in Emails, posts, web-sites, etc.. When the program detects a pattern that they have programed it to look for, they have to check it out.

Why do you think the U.S. government refused to give up control of the WWW servers to CERT this year like they were supposed to? It all comes down to controlling the information that people send out on the Internet.

sjct on October 23, 2005 at 8:33 am

I’ve never gone all the way to the bottom of the front page before. Sitemeter is kinda spooky. I checked out the location map and whoa, there I was — a red dot. I haven’t been shy about saying where I live but still…

And what is Feedburner? It currently says, “2 Readers.” What does that mean? When I clicked it something started to download which always freaks me into stopping it. I prefer being asked if I want a download before that action takes effect, ya know. Guess I’ll go google Feedburner now…

catnip on October 23, 2005 at 12:00 pm

It’s spooky but it’s really useful when it comes to knowing why people come here. We’ve had a lot of people visit lately who’ve searched for information on the Plame case and BT comes up on the first page of links for many of those terms. That’s great!

glitterscale on October 23, 2005 at 4:01 pm

were there diaries on all those topics? I think I missed a few but they sound fascinating!

catnip on October 23, 2005 at 4:06 pm

If you type the terms into the search engines, you’ll see why BT showed up in the links. Sometimes, the words were just interspersed in a comment or diary but they were listed anyway because it all depends on how people use those search engines. 🙂

eodell on October 24, 2005 at 12:27 am

It’s a relief to know I’m not the only person who got here by searching for frozen yam fries.

catnip on October 24, 2005 at 2:21 am

I was wondering who would own up to that one! 🙂

spiderleaf on October 24, 2005 at 3:47 pm

I assume the person searching for fight club, split personality disorder was trying to find me.

catnip on October 22, 2005 at 10:08 pm

The only remaining question is: how many of them actually stayed? 🙂
- katiebird on October 22, 2005 at 10:24 pm
  
  Do you look at the referrals to see the search term?
  - catnip on October 22, 2005 at 11:07 pm
    
    Do you look at the referrals to see the search term?
    
    Yes and then just click on any search engine entry.
Tehanu on October 22, 2005 at 10:31 pm

Fascinating diary, but I have one question-

Does this mean BooMan knows I check about 3 bazillion times a day to see if there are any new indictments?
- catnip on October 22, 2005 at 11:08 pm
  
  lol – only if Booman knows where you’re coming here from.
sybil on October 22, 2005 at 10:33 pm

L.A.W. Lawyers against the War are charging GWB with torture crimes in BC’s Supreme Court.

http://www.counterpunch.org/davidson10202005.html
- catnip on October 22, 2005 at 11:12 pm
  
  Yes, I hadn’t read about it at Counterpunch though. LAW really needs to update their web site! If Bush is convicted at least he’ll never be able to step foot in my country again.
  - ejmw on October 22, 2005 at 11:29 pm
    
    If Bush is convicted at least he’ll never be able to step foot in my country again.
    
    Then I’m moving to Canada.
    
    This time, I mean it!
- bughouse canuck on October 23, 2005 at 7:46 pm
  
  Wow! This happened in Vancouver? Why haven’t I seen anything about it in the media here? (Completely rhetorical question.)
  
  If I possibly can, I’m going to attend the hearing in November. Lawyers Against the War, you rock!
BrendaStewart on October 22, 2005 at 11:31 pm

I have often wondered if big brother is watching…:o) I think that is kewl…..the pentagon!!!! wished they had stayed and had coffee and chatted for a while…I have a few questions I would love to ask of them…

“We obviously need to try harder to piss those guys off.” Geez, Dear, I am trying very hard…but the problem is I am getting more pissed as time goes on…:o)

Thanks for all your info here..it is fun to know this stuff you come up with.
- Connecticut Man1 on October 23, 2005 at 2:15 am
  
  They are always watching everywhere on the Internet:
  
  Colleges Protest Call to Upgrade Online Systems-NYT
  
  The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications.
  
  snip
  
  Recognizing the growth of Internet-based telephone and other communications, the order requires that organizations like universities providing Internet access also comply with the law by spring 2007.
  
  The Justice Department requested the order last year, saying that new technologies like telephone service over the Internet were endangering law enforcement’s ability to conduct wiretaps “in their fight against criminals, terrorists and spies.”
  
  They have always been watching the Internet. The intelligence agencies have developed special software programs that detect “keywords” in Emails, posts, web-sites, etc.. When the program detects a pattern that they have programed it to look for, they have to check it out.
  
  Why do you think the U.S. government refused to give up control of the WWW servers to CERT this year like they were supposed to? It all comes down to controlling the information that people send out on the Internet.
sjct on October 23, 2005 at 8:33 am

I’ve never gone all the way to the bottom of the front page before. Sitemeter is kinda spooky. I checked out the location map and whoa, there I was — a red dot. I haven’t been shy about saying where I live but still…

And what is Feedburner? It currently says, “2 Readers.” What does that mean? When I clicked it something started to download which always freaks me into stopping it. I prefer being asked if I want a download before that action takes effect, ya know. Guess I’ll go google Feedburner now…
- catnip on October 23, 2005 at 12:00 pm
  
  It’s spooky but it’s really useful when it comes to knowing why people come here. We’ve had a lot of people visit lately who’ve searched for information on the Plame case and BT comes up on the first page of links for many of those terms. That’s great!
glitterscale on October 23, 2005 at 4:01 pm

were there diaries on all those topics? I think I missed a few but they sound fascinating!
- catnip on October 23, 2005 at 4:06 pm
  
  If you type the terms into the search engines, you’ll see why BT showed up in the links. Sometimes, the words were just interspersed in a comment or diary but they were listed anyway because it all depends on how people use those search engines. 🙂
eodell on October 24, 2005 at 12:27 am

It’s a relief to know I’m not the only person who got here by searching for frozen yam fries.
- catnip on October 24, 2005 at 2:21 am
  
  I was wondering who would own up to that one! 🙂
spiderleaf on October 24, 2005 at 3:47 pm

I assume the person searching for fight club, split personality disorder was trying to find me.

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