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January 14, 2004

The Experiment

While reading Pierre Carion's blog (one of my favorite blogs, if you speak french), I had the idea of making a google experiment that will probably bring science to new horizons.

Let's start with a fact, this small website (www.windal.net, blog included), is visited by around 70 different people every single day. Most of them find it with google, about 60%. The remaining visitors are accessing it using another search engine, directly i.e. by typing the URL or using a bookmark or come here following a link from another website.

A quick stats analysis shows that a non negligible number of visitors are actually lost. By lost I mean People brought mistakenly to this site by google (or another search engine) because google indicates a page of this website even though it is not really related to the search they are doing. Nobody is perfect.

For instance, until recently, I had many hits due to the search 9 9 B B because I had a picture of Philadelphia on my album with a name containing the word 9 9 b b... After investigation, it appears 9 9 B B is indeed a porn Japanese website. Some people must have been very disappointed, the Philadelphia skyline is everything but exciting...
Another example, many hits I have are a result of the phrase php thumbnail maker, I am number 4 on google on this one. I indicate on the mkthumb page that mkthumb is a tool that can be used to generate thumbnails if you can NOT generate thumbnails using php, exactly the opposite of what they are looking for.

Any ways, Pierre Carion was mentioning on his blog that because he once posted an entry with the words "Chasey Loves Rocco", he had many hits from google, people looking for, well, porn... :-)
So the experiment is the following one: I wonder how many hits I would get from google if I added a post containing some of the most searched words in the internet: Britney Spears, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton (if you think I am talking of the hotel, sorry buddy, it means you are getting older and older). I would also add some words such as naked, photo, photos, picture, pictures and the name of a few pornstars like Rocco, Kobe, Devon, Jenna. That will help.

And voila! The experiment just started. This post contains everything needed. I have left the title fuzzy enough "The Experiment" so that it looks kind of mysterious and people will click on it.

It usually takes between 2 and 4 weeks for googlebot to read a new page and for the new stuff to be correctly indexed in their database. Just wait for a month, we will see.


Posted by sebatl at January 14, 2004 08:15 PM