What do people search for?, 31/05/05, Autology: John Dale's blog

May 31, 2005

What do people search for?

I’ve previously posted about who posts the most and who comments the most. But another interesting set of statistics relates to what people search for when they visit WB. There’s a search box on the home page on the left-hand side, and every blog also has a search box in its left-hand column. What do people type into these search boxes? Here’s the list for this month and last month. Determined readers with good memories can probably figure out why some terms appear in April but not May, and easily shocked readers will no doubt be shocked that there’s a steady stream of visitors every month hoping for the salacious scoop on students’ sex lives.

As always, if your appearance on this list bothers you then drop me a note and I’ll remove you.

May, 2005

There were 17,861 searches for 7,909 words or phrases.

April 2005

There were 15,062 searches for 6,651 words or phrases.

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Benjamin Keates

I'm not offended – quite the opposite actually, I'm honoured! 187 searches for me in total? Is my blog really that interesting?

31 May 2005, 11:30
Helen Ryan

My god, I rank above sex.
Ah the perils of infamy.

31 May 2005, 13:33
Eleanor O'Donnell

I can't believe I'm on the list, and even more surprised that people can spell my name!

31 May 2005, 21:34
Christopher Hinds

I'm 29th?!? Do I have something important to say??

01 Jun 2005, 00:42
Elizabeth Jenner

Wow – I'm as famous as sociology and Soul Nation… how did that happen?

02 Jun 2005, 01:08
He he….....Alright

02 Jun 2005, 09:06
Excellent – 47 for "halloo". My work for bringing that word back into (relatively) popular use is complete!

Roll on.

02 Jun 2005, 11:06
i know this is all ages ago but i just found it now. more than 20 searches for my name for two months, thats highly impressive. although i can only imagine that they are all physics students searching for info on the oxford proffessor of the same name. otherwise thats very, very odd. haha

06 Nov 2005, 02:36

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Jessie

Members of Brasssoc might be interested to see the top search terms on Warwick Blogs for May and April….

Wilby's blog - 31 May 2005, 09:39
I know these people! :O

what do people search for… taken from John Dale… link above: May, 2005 There were 17,861 searches for 7,909 words or phrases. Top 50 searches 137 for honk 85 for ben keates <li...

my housemate is a soviet spy - 31 May 2005, 11:02
What do people search Google for?

An interesting additional set of search stats come from Google. and other search engines outside of Warwick. What we can determine here is the number of times that WB pages were requested by someone who did a Google search and got a WB page in thei...

Autology: John Dale's blog - 31 May 2005, 12:07

May 31, 2005