I collect all the strange search terms readers use to reach my blog. Using Google, Bing, Yahoo, Mocavo and other search engines, they all end up somehow at my blog. I can see them on my statistics page. Believe it or not, these are the actual word-for-word search terms! I have not idea how some of these ended up at "Nutfield Genealogy".
Genealogy exercise gym in San Francisco [someone please tell me if this is true!]
Ben Franklin and his coffin [ ? ! ]
pics of people born in navarra
spain [apparently Google understands “pics”?]
good pics of Liliuokalani [again, why use the word “pics”?]
Practice chart write report give me six generations
tree [Is that you, Yoda?]
Sanderson Sisters Salem [ Disney movie buffs will
scratch their heads at this one]
Images
searched online that actually landed on my blog website ….
Photo of William Tuttle 1635 [ ? ! ]
Photo of Abiah Folger [Ben Franklin’s mother]
Photo of Boston 1784
[really!]
1799 photos of Lowell MA [not only is the year strange, but Lowell
didn’t exist at this time]
Photo of the 1760 Boston fire [only a time traveler with a camera ….]
Moses Platts 1673 Mayflower [no, he wasn’t on the
Mayflower, and it sailed 53 years earlier]
Questions
on Google?
Who photographed the Mayflower leaving England? [Again, what’s with the time traveler
theory?]
Where is Ben Franklin buried in Boston? [He’s not!
He’s buried in Philadelphia!]
What is my great great grandmother’s enumeration
district? [I’ll forward this to Steve
Morse]
Did my grandmother have any kids? [She must have had at least one!]
Who is that genealogist on TV? [I swear it wasn’t me… ]
What is the Blaisdell genealogy numbering? [huh?]
Who is that famous woman genealogist? [I’m too humble to take credit for this
one]
Who is my great uncle? [OK, I’m good, but I’m not that good!]
Who do I think I am?
[Send this one to Lisa Kudrow]
This one showed up this morning and I just had to add it in at the last minute....
Where do I find my grandfather's grave online?
This one showed up this morning and I just had to add it in at the last minute....
Where do I find my grandfather's grave online?
Click here to see my past "weird search term" post:
2011 http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/06/weird-search-terms-2011.html
2011 http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/06/weird-search-terms-2011.html
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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
"Is that you, Yoda?" made me laugh.
ReplyDeleteSo people come to your blog looking for "Hocus Pocus"? Heh. I love that movie.
This reminds me of a story often told by a Family History Center volunteer and librarian. A patron asks,"Do you have my family?" The volunteer answers, "Let me look in my drawer.".
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, a lot of people do expect to find the answer to any question by typing it into Google.
Ooh I want to go to a genealogy exercise gym! Perhaps it's to train up for carrying the weight of generations.
ReplyDeleteShelley - that made my morning laugh-o-meter!!
DeleteGood laugh this morning... thanks! I think if I were going to Google for your blog it would be something like this:
ReplyDelete"nut genealogy seeking birds"
I bet it would work. I'll have to try. :-)
OMG this was too funny. I don't know how you and Amy do it - getting these funny search terms. I look at my search terms and they are all very boring and very specific to my blog and almost always genealogy related. Although today I did get one for "cobblestone water features small garden" from a Landscaping company which didn't land him anywhere good on my blog. Thanks for the laugh!
ReplyDeleteThis is so funny, Heather! Between your blog and comments, plus Jill Ball's Genealogist Psalm - my day is starting with a lot of laughter! Thanks for sharing these 'can you believe it?' google searching results!
ReplyDeleteOK, those are strange. I've done the opposite: I've come up with phrases that no one has ever entered into any website on Earth, according to Google: http://daisybrain.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/more-google-virgins/
ReplyDeleteHehehe! I happened to stumble upon your blog by typing "weird search terms" into Google XD!
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