Most popular Google searches by Canberrans

A colleague put me on to Icerocket years ago, the selling point being that it looked just like Google but it showed you a screen shot of each home page on the search listing.

But I’ve just accessed it for the first time in ages and it’s totally different.

I just put a Web search in for “Billy Bragg” and it came back with: We didn’t find any Web results

Blasphemer!

One of my landlords in the US helped design and build AltaVista. That was always my favourite search engine but google is just so much cleverer. It’s handy to have the others around though, for when google gets silly.

The Yanks are nuts about me, the Canadians to a lesser extent, and the Brits lesser again. But outside those three nations, they don’t want to know about me.

(Might have something to do with my exact namesakes who are variously an author (much more famous than me), a folk musican (much more famous than me), an actor, and a former Governor of Hawaii.)

No one has Googled me at all. I am The Phantom….
(Hey, that’s just ridiculous! I’ve googled me lots of times.)

What he said!

Where is this Google Insights beastie, pray tell. Actually, don’t answer that. I’ll Google it (thus risking breaking the internet…)

Oh go on…I know you are all putting your own names in now…if you haven’t already!

Ten years ago before ‘Google’ had entered our vocabulary (yes, kids, there was a time when Google didn’t exist) and internet searches were less sophisticated, I was doing some web searches on real estate in Sydney as I was looking to move there. The searches kept returning listing for porn sites and I couldn’t work out why. Whether it was because I was looking for properties in HORNsby, I’m not sure.

It’s just the other personality in your multiple personality disorder getting around a bit, I daresay. Any unexplained gaps in time? Any missing memories?

*tee hee*

Well, BigFoot was found to be a frozen gorilla suit, apparently.

Oh my god! I just checked my own name on Google Insights.

Apparantly the people of Austria are very interested in me. I don’t have a germanic name nor a particularly common one, so why are the Austrians looking into me?

And why am I no longer interesting? The peak interest in me was in early 2004 but I have been on a steady decline ever since then.

*sigh*

whenever i go to tuggers library, there is always this guy who insists on going through google to find facebook.
Which is hilarious in itself, because he always spends at least five minutes typing in different terms (Face. Book. DUHHHH!) and then starts harrassing the poor school student next to him to help. Guh.

man some people google the most randomest things..

I used to have a program running on my work ‘puter (many years ago) that updated itself every minute or so with the top 10 searches during that minute. Looking at the words was funny, even funnier when you watched the mis-spellings and fruitless searches based on hopeless mis-spellings. It was called Net Spy or something.

I remember watching some poor bugger trying to find “Naked Irish” (why I will never know), but managed to mis-spell it every time. He was persistent though.

Facebook is used quite alot in Google as most government departments have blocked the url, so people type facebook into the Google search engine and click on to the link instead which takes them to the Facebook homepage.

Well, this is what I do at my work to bypass the block. 🙂

And more people from the Northern Territory Google Belconnen than Tuggeranong

“Australians and Britons have difficulty spelling the title of the Kama Sutra properly, while people in the US seem to be on top of it.”

Give that reporter a cigar. Champagne comedy.

Reality often is 🙁

Well, that was an anticlimax.

: )

Results 1 – 10 of about 2,740,000,000 for google.

*hehehe*

Go on.
Try it.
You know you want to.

: )

I’ve heard that can break the internet – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQUWUfmR_I

Oh dear lord, one of the top Google search terms is “google”.

I know people who can’t get anywhere on the web without typing it into google. I’ve even said “type this in the address bar”, and they click the Home button to go back to google, then type in the search bar. :/

Google Insights does however answer the age old question of whether Canberra is a
Ford or Holden town.

Because if someone had owned a Trademark and ‘aggressively defended’ it, that would be less of an issue now. 😛

But the lack of understanding of modern technology the everyman and everywoman posseses amazes me every day.

I’ve had to google Riotact in the past, as the url is quite poor. There’s some punctuation in it that makes it hard to type straight in. riotact.com.au woudl have been better (assume riotact.com was taken).

johnboy said :

Everyday hundreds of people google riotact to get here.

It works for them so they keep doing it.

That’s because trying to guess the URL lands you in some very weird places…

Everyday hundreds of people google riotact to get here.

It works for them so they keep doing it.

People need to search ‘facebook’? Can’t be that hard to find can it…