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I'm getting a lot of one word live.com searches too and the oddest thing is that 75% of them are months (october, april, march). I'm also getting stuff like economics, state and reserve.

REALLY odd.

I have the same issue with the live.com traffic. It's usually EXTREMELY common words like "apple" or "music," too. I can't help but think there's some little kink that makes Live Search an easy tool for spam bots? Go figure, it is Microsoft...

They aren't really "strange" (in that I know why I'm getting hits from them), but I am amazed at how often people show up at my site after searching for "fermented shark", "iceland rotten shark", and variations on those things. I wrote a post months ago on a segment in Viking Age Iceland, which remarked that Icelanders would bury shark meat in a barrel full of shark urine, then dig it up months later and eat it.

I never would have imagined that so many people would be searching for information on that (or the modern practice of it, which yes, still exists). I get at least 2-3 hits daily from such searches.

I get people looking for "capsaicin on hands" a couple times a day.

Yeah... oops.

Oops, indeed!

Dating Older Women

Make Your Penis Bigger

At least those were the top two searches that lead to my blog until Google's recent streamlining of it searches. Just as well too. Do you know how many people a day come to make their weiner bigger just to find out I'm talking about spam?

A lot of sad men out there.

I wrote a post months ago on a segment in Viking Age Iceland, which remarked that Icelanders would bury shark meat in a barrel full of shark urine, then dig it up months later and eat it.

Yeah.... we still do that.
But it's not stored in urine. It's buried in order to drain the meat's poisonous uric acid. No barrel of urine, sorry.

I'll buy you some if you ever visit ;)

Edit:

I've actually noticed that there are fewer irrelevant/weird searches leading to my site lately. Some of the more fun searches leading people to me today are:

• how to take pulse in childrens
• make my body look femin
• grandma secret bakery

meow

"piriform defraggler" if you can digg it.

@hthth: Aw, no urine? Darn. ;) Are you sure it's not used by some? Here's the text from the book that I mentioned:

When a dead whale was found like this, how were the pieces of meat and blubber stored? The Saga of Gudmund the Worthy provides some information. It mentions that after a long stand-off, a chieftain rewarded the men who had stood by him by opening his brother’s whale storage pits [hvalgrafir]. He gave each man three loads of whale meat, which they carried home with them. In such pits the meat and blubber fermented, a form of preservation. In a similar manner, Icelanders down to modern times preserve and eat rotten shark and skate fermented in their own juices, the process benefiting from the ammonia found in the urine.

Oh, and by the way - thanks for the offer, but no thanks. Yeck! :P

Wow, right now I'm #1 on yahoo for:

what makes a good tv drama

So sharks are made of pee, just like we are made of water.

Top key phrases to my site in 2007.

1. entry
2. hump day quotes
3. lelia
4. george washington testicles
5. 13 year old sluts (This is because of an entry I wrote a while ago about how children should not be wearing Playboy clothing.)
6. worship
7. hump day
8. abortion
9. small town politics
10. hump day comments

So yeah, I think at least some of those support the statistic about how the Internet is used a lot of sex-related searching and content!

Just for fun, here are some of my favorites. They aren't necessarily the most popular. Some were even used only once. But they are definitely funny and weird.

1. how to unplug a toilet
2. openly lewd
3. in what ways has learning about world religions influenced the way you think about religion?
4. asshole
5. your myspace is gay

I've not seen the influx of live traffic, however, here are some of my favorite searches. hehe

1. cough potato
2. underyell
3. windows dream sequence
4. how to start a letter to an old friend
5. Insomniac phone number
6. hb woodlawn literary magazine
7. bagged hearses
8. insomniac what does it do
9. "car google map"
10. "the dark meaning"
11. Penguin
12. monkey

vampire bitches with long fingernails c

zucchini smell

"and secretly i want you buried in the yard"

I don't look at it that often, but these are some of the strangest.

For those of you who are getting weird Live.com searches, you might want to check this out: Yell if Microsoft's Live.com Spammed You Too

As for my top searches, they would be:

1. upcoming pc games
2. centrafuse
3. half life 2 episode 2 achievements
4. schools
5. team fortress 2 achievements
6. ogm vista
7. tf2 stats
8. apache url masking
9. can my computer handle crysis
10. fake balls <-- I love this one :)

Some of the top search terms for my site are:

1. creative workspaces
2. brand loyalty
3. freelance switch
4. carbonmade alternative

@Josh
I'm not 100% sure. I'll ask around!

My latest 10.

1. hacintosh
2. $800 hacintosh
3. spacers to leopard dock
4. hacintosh build
5. tumblr in wordpress
6. tumblr wordpress
7. build mac 800
8. danish kid arrested habbo hotel
9. build hacintosh mac for under $800
10. dock spacers

I've actually blocked referrers from live.com; I got annoyed with them junking up my logs.

Some of my favourite searches:

1. character meme (this is the hands-down #1 search winner for my site...)
2. cracktionary (from this post about the DC Dictionary)
3. ratemyfeet
4. wwld what would loki do shirt
5. bad original fiction (I sure do write enough of that)

my website is www.outernal.com
for some reason I get hits from people doing searches on "external"

This is odd.