Dec

19

Googles Top Searches

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Google posted its top 10 searched terms. Presumably these are terms and keywords that people (a large number of people) type into Googles search engine. When a list like this comes out my naive faith in human nature is tested and I assume that I’m going to see obscure terms relating to scientific theory, political quests, wide spread interests relating to celebrities, nudity, crime, and sports fiascos. Therefore I’m not surprised that number 10 on the top 10 is “Nichol Smith.” She did die recently, was the subject of a scandal, a Playboy centerfold at one time, and some people consider her pretty.

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Dec

4

Guestbook Signed by a Moron

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So I’m fishing around the shitheadery.com site today. You know looking around the way you walk around your house or car, checking the gutters, kicking the tires, wiggling the fence posts. You know nothing is wrong, but you’re bored and want to make sure everything checks out all the same. I check the links, look at it in different browsers and at different resolutions to see what other people see. Of course there’s always a friend who calls me to let me know that it doesn’t look that great on their end. They, of course happen to be looking at it with an Opera browser on Linux or on a ginourmous Mac monitor at full screen.

In any case. I get to the guestbook section and some idiot has used it for his own personal advertising. I specifically set the thing up to avoid bots and the like. I had issues on another website that forced me to dump the entire guestbook. It’s nice to know who visits your site and cares to say hello. The irony that this douche would commit an act of shitheadery on a site devoted to shitheadery is too good to be true. I mean what are the odds?

Here’s the post:

Subject: Authentic shades A-Z Brands
Name: glasszilla
E-mail address: glasszilla1 [at] mail [dot] ru
Location: USA
Homepage: http://www.eyeglassesandshades.com

#8 Comment (Thu Nov 1, 2:59:49 EDT 2007):
autentic shades and eyeglasses
Authentic eyewear and shades at discount prices. Trust your eyes. Secured payment by PayPal throught
Yahoo! Store.
autentic shades and
eyeglasses

You would think that spelling would be a consideration, especially when you’re advertising. But this store has “autentic” shades that you can pay for “throught” PayPal.

So this is a sales tatic? Sign guestbooks with the address of a Yahoo website. The e-mail (sale@abs-sunglasses.com) belongs to another site, abs-sunglasses.com , which is one ugly site. It’s got little snow flakes falling across the screen that distract you from actually looking at anything or wanting to buy anything for that matter.

Here’s a novel approach: You buy on line because it’s cheaper. The fact that there’s no rent, buildings, employees, and a low overhead you’d think merchandise would be cheaper. I found the same glasses they have on their site for $50-$100 less at a store in my little town.

The point is not that these glasses are a rip off or that the site design hurts your eyes (something you should consider when designing a site for glasses), but that some asswipe went to a site that had nothing to do with glasses and signed the guestbook for the sole purpose of self promotion. And signed the guestbook of a site that is dedicated to pointing out idiocy like this very act.

If you want to drop these idiots a line feel free. They put their info up for just that purpose. And it’s only fair to contact them. Here’s the e-mail again: sale@abs-sunglasses.com

And yes I let the idiot know this post was coming and how I felt about their guestbook entry.

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