Queries
I have no idea how this works, but someone managed to find my blog not once, but twice, by searching orginal sexy prong in the prety on Google. I can't make any sense of the query, though. Am I just not up on the current terminology of society, or what?
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posted by William at
8/21/2008 06:18:00 PM
8 Comments:
I think I'm still kind of freaked out that you can know so much about the people that visit a web page and such! I was unaware that you can tell what someone searched to get to your pages...
That IS a pretty unique search, especially to happen twice. So did this person actually visit your site or just have it show up on their search?
Japan: The Land of Only Two Prongs!
I'm kind of curious exactly what the individual was looking for in the first place...and what in the link description said to them.."oh, this looks like the spot!"
ps...i used the search and didn't find you in the first 1000 entries...so they must have been looking a while.
pss to thots about stuff...the web site server log stores the 'referer' sit...the last site someone was at before they appeared at yours (unless you directly type in the address). Using this, you can see the referer was from google and what the search terms were.
To Fishbulb: So not only can they see what you searched if you searched it, but they can see what you were looking at just prior to visiting their site?!!
LOL...I will make sure NOT to tell my aunt this or she will NEVER use the internet again. She is quite paranoid about that sort of thing. It kind of freaks me out to know people know that random people can know that much about me, actually.
It's not that you can see all of these various things, it's just that you can pull a lot of data from the referring link URL. As an example:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the+land+of+two+prongs
By looking at that, you can see that someone did their search in English (hl=en), is probably in the US (google.com), and did a search with a query of "the land of two prongs". My statistics page parses that information in much the same way, and simply returns how many people got to the site with each set of keywords.
Interesting. So do you also know specifically which computer found you that way...like with an IP address or something?
Well, an IP address won't necessarily limit things to one computer, due to network address translation, which is what allows a router to handle having four computers on one end and one connection on the other without having to manually map all sorts of weird port numbers.
So if you, Jordyn, or Jes access the blog, I can't tell the difference. But I seriously doubt Jes ever looks at it anymore and Jordyn... should be studying for tests or something, shouldn't he?
I can see that rarely go more than two hours without refreshing the main page, though.
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