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July 25, 2007

Did You Mean to Search For...

One of the sites I read regularly is Bookgasm—a blog dedicated to genre fiction, cheap magazines, and trashy paperbacks—because there's a special place in my heart reserved for all things tacky. They do a feature called "Search Me" which reveals that most of their search engine traffic comes from pervs looking for naked pictures of the starlet of the moment. Or Charo.

BookBlog's most popular search strings are boring by comparison. For example, here are our top ten keyphrases for June:

This month, though, has brought us a whole lot of traffic from Harry Potter searches thanks to the release of book 7. In taking a browse through the stats this morning, I have discovered that BookBlog is the first Google result for...drumroll...wait for it...here it comes...

"fucking crotchdropping."

It's, oh, so pleasing to be number one. Thanks, Google!

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That's quite an honour you've got there! My top search terms are pretty boring as well -- all tame and book-related. Lots of them clearly from students looking for homework help.

I'm not sure how many people are looking for such a thing, but at least they will have a place to land.

Now I'll have to search your site for the no doubt entertaining post that contained the crotch dropping.

Imani, thanks for the reminder. I should have pointed out that no one on BookBlog was clever enough to come up with "crotchdropping." When HP6 was released, a crazy adult posted a rant to an LJ childfree forum about losing a costume contest to a child. She couldn't take the criticism and took the post down, and now I think BookBlog is the only place where it can be found:

Scary Harry Potter Fan

I absolutely love the insane. They're so interesting without trying to be interesting.