A Strange Way To Find Out About Breaking News
So I'm checking my referrers log, and I found that in the space of 13 minutes, I'd gotten 12 hits from all over North America from people searching for "Bob Vern". There's nothing about "Bob Vern" on Google News, or even on some of the more active message boards. I found out I was fairly high up on the Google Search for "Bob Vern" because of a comment someone made in a post back in 2005. It gets me to wondering -- are they searching for information on Bob Vern the actor? Did something happen to him? Should I go out and buy the URL "bobvern.com" just in case it's about to become a household name? I guess I'll have to find out in the morning.
Update 2313 22 Jan: It turns out that all the simultaneous searching was generated by a card at the end of that night's episode of "Grey's Anatomy" saying "In memory of Bob Vern", who was the father of one of the screenwriters. She discusses it here.
posted by Bubblehead at 11:18 PM
4 Comments:
attn - BubbleHead
i'd be too long winded explaining on your weblogs comment section why you ranked so high on the Google Bob Vern search [this type of fluke is a relatively common occurence]
in any event, please don't waste your time(money) buyin' the URL
~ theDdoubleSstandard
1/19/2007 4:56 AM
"Iran, China Intent on Countering Navies, U.S. and Israeli Ships Targeted, Hezbollah Successfully Strikes with Iranian Missile" ~ http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/164/documentid/3652/history/3,2360,656,164,3652
~ duhDdoubleSstandard
1/19/2007 5:34 AM
tdDsS: I understand how Google works; that was not the point of the post. The point (other than "I'm tired and need something to post about so I can go to bed") was that a relatively large number of people were searching for an obscure topic at the same time for no apparent reason.
Since you're since an expert on how the 'net works, you should really start your own blog. Seriously. I'd even give you a permalink.
1/19/2007 10:39 PM
Bob Vern was the name mentioned at the end of Grey's Anatomy. "In memory of Bob Vern"...Just thought I'd relieve some of your curiousity.
1/22/2007 12:34 AM
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