Monday, December 27, 2010
Strange search
This blog gets about 3 or 4 hits per day on average. Most of them are either looking for "explanatory sentence" or looking for the video game named after a period of confinement related to disease. I'm not going to write the word Q**r**t*n*. I went through considerable trouble to remove it from the text, yet the hits keep coming from the past through Google's cache.
Sort of like the legendary DX Skip phenomenon. ... Well, I thought I could find a story about that strangeness online, but no go, so here it is. ... Back in the 1960s, electronics mags occasionally featured reports from known and reliable ham operators, about receiving signals that had apparently circled around in the ionosphere for several years. The one I remember was a Houston TV station that closed permanently in 1956, then was unquestionably received for a few minutes in 1962. Possible explanation: those particular years featured historically high sunspot levels, which intensified the ionosphere to a degree that hasn't been repeated.
Anyway, today a mysterious and plaintive search string appeared:
"terrible pain in the upper right side of my eggstocks.what can it be?need urgent help"
Running the search myself, I can see the combination of words (in Aug 2005) that accidentally matched some of the search pattern, but it's obviously not connected to the meaning of the search.
I do hope the searcher found help for her eggstocks pain. (Is eggstocks a bad translation of uterus? There's a Swiss mountain named Eggstock, but that can't be it.) ¶ 5:10 AM
Sort of like the legendary DX Skip phenomenon. ... Well, I thought I could find a story about that strangeness online, but no go, so here it is. ... Back in the 1960s, electronics mags occasionally featured reports from known and reliable ham operators, about receiving signals that had apparently circled around in the ionosphere for several years. The one I remember was a Houston TV station that closed permanently in 1956, then was unquestionably received for a few minutes in 1962. Possible explanation: those particular years featured historically high sunspot levels, which intensified the ionosphere to a degree that hasn't been repeated.
Anyway, today a mysterious and plaintive search string appeared:
"terrible pain in the upper right side of my eggstocks.what can it be?need urgent help"
Running the search myself, I can see the combination of words (in Aug 2005) that accidentally matched some of the search pattern, but it's obviously not connected to the meaning of the search.
I do hope the searcher found help for her eggstocks pain. (Is eggstocks a bad translation of uterus? There's a Swiss mountain named Eggstock, but that can't be it.) ¶ 5:10 AM
