Google: movie chicago
I've highlighted for you the relevant searches here. When you do a search on Google for movie chicago my comments about the movie rank as the 4th result out of a possible 1,440,000. Moreover, the first three hits are not about the movie, they are about Chicago the city. If you put the words in parantheses for the search, my blog entry ranks first. I'd say this is pretty cool.
It's especially funny (I can afford to look at this humorously) when I think about all the strategizing that goes on behind the scenes about how to make sites more popular. In case you weren't aware, there is a whole Search Engine Optimization (SEO) industry out there. But I guess the Web masters or SEO experts of the various movie sites are not doing their job well.
And no, I don't read that stuff because I'm constantly tweaking the code of Eszter's Blog to get it up in the rankings. I read up on that industry because some of my research is about how people find information online and for that I need to have some understanding of how search engines work and what site producers are doing to get on the radar screen (or computer screen) of users.
Note, however, that the searches on the list above are all movie chicago in that order. A search for chicago movie does not point to my blog entry anywhere near the top. I didn't realize word order was this important, that's something to take note of. I guess SEO's may not know it either.
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People seem to have found my web site by searching for phrases like: "kung foo fighting," and "joe boxer guy." I saw many hits from searches for "i hate Dr. Phil" (interestingly, searching for that phrase on Google right now will lead directly to me.)
I agree with you - You have to wonder what this will do to commercial sites that are trying desperately to drive traffic to their sites. Bloggers don't even seem to be trying too hard :)
Posted by Kara @ 01/10/2003 05:16 PM CST
hahahaha, "i hate dr phil" was actually what i seached for, and here i am ;) was just currioius if i'm the only one who thinks that about him, but apparently not :D
Posted by Mans @ 01/30/2003 02:15 PM CST
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