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OK, get ready to hear the strangest thing. Ready? Here goes:
Like many of you that have websites, I subscribe to a site monitoring
service (statcounter in my case) which I check occasionally to see how
many
visitors I am getting, what link they came from, which part of the world
etc. One of the reports statcounter supplies is called "recent keyword
activity". This tells me what words people typed into search engines like
Google or Yahoo to find my website. As I am a Canadian photographer
working
in Shanghai, so I typically see "shanghai photographer" or "shanghai
portrait photographer" etc. as the search terms. No surprises. Until
today.
This is so strange; someone had typed in the words "bloody photography"
into Google search. A little weird right? It gets weirder! So naturally, I
replicated the search myself. Surprise! MY SITE IS AT THE TOP of the
search
page if the quotation marks are included and no 5 of 1,360,000 pages if
they are excluded.
OK now I'll wait while you try the search
yourself...............................finished? Cool right? It all might
make sense if I the word "bloody" actually appeared on my page. But it
does
not. It never has. ------- Tres bizarre!
Everyone wants their page to appear high in google searches, but I never
expected my innocent child photography page to capture the number one slot
for "bloody photography". I don't know if I should be flattered or
insulted.
Why does Google hate my photography? The only reason I can come up with is
that Google has actually attained sentience or self awareness and is just
expressing its personal disdain for sentimental photography. Boy, I always
suspected that my photography might suck. But to be insulted by a
logarithm.... I feel utterly humiliated.
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Alex Georgiadis
