Everybody seems to have their favourite kind of content. My buddy Thussy comes here mostly for the WTFs! Every once in a while, I’ll send him a list of all the weird and wacky search terms that have (somehow) lead people to mikeladano.com. As he did inWTF Search Terms XV, he’s picked his favourites. Please welcome back Thussy for this Guest Shot edition of WTF Search Terms.
WTF Search Terms XXIV: Fan Favourites – First Grade Math edition
It’s been a year since my last installment of WTF search terms so here it is: My list of fucked up shit people want to see on the internet and then somehow make it to Lebrains blog. And when I say shit it sometimes literally means shit.
10. share this click to email this to a friend
I had to include this one because how the hell does this get you to a blog about music?
9. i don’t exist
Then don’t google yourself.
8. wild party
I am a wild party.
7. shower poop guy
Why do people keep searching this?
6. swedish made penis
This sort of thing aint my bag baby.
5. first grade math
Is this the answer to the question, “what did Lebrain fail in school?”
4. orangie took like 6 shooters and some bong tokes
Excellent season, the Boys still have it.
3. porn mcgangbang
It is definitely food porn.
2. Japanporn
If this is anything like Japanese imports they are way too expensive.
Happy hump day. For this edition of WTF, I’ve collected 10 of the weirdest sexual phrases that, somehow, some way, Googled these people to me. Missed the last edition? Click here!
1. Each of these are real search terms, typed in by real people on a search engine like Google.
2. Somehow, each of these search terms led them to ME!
So here’s 10 more for this installment!
A week isn’t a week unless I get hits from people looking for stuff like this. I’m still assuming that people don’t know how to spell the word “lesbian”.
lebrain sex
lebrani nude 1
Here’s a good one:
why is here i go again not on reissue of slide it in
Because it’s not on Slide It In. It’s on 1987, sillypants.
This guy can’t spell the singer’s name, nor the name of the site he’s looking for.
you too runny james dio neon nights
Here’s a selection that led people to some of my Kiss reviews:
just how bad is peter criss’ ’78 solo album?
was peter criss’ ’78 solo album really that bad
why did paul feel unwanted and alone in the carnival
patty stanley stripper
jean simmons with a moustache
And finally, if this guy had his way, we’d all be speaking Anglesh:
WTF SEARCH TERMS Part I: “Exersises for the Plumber Butt”
Crack = Bad
As a WordPress site, I have access to certain statistics. I can see how many hits I’m getting per day, for example, and how many are unique visitors. Some of my visitors are very, very unique.
Some of the more interesting particulars that I’m able to see are search terms. Search terms that people typed into Google (or Yahoo, or whatever) that led them to me. Search terms that boggle the mind as to a) what they were looking for, b) how it led them to me, or c) both. Here’s a selection of some of the most entertaining. This is just the tip of the iceberg. If feedback is positive I’ll post more in the future.
Keep in mind two things!
1. Each of these are real search terms, typed in by real people on a search engine like Google.
2. Somehow, each of these search terms led them to ME!
We first got email and internet at the record store in the late 90’s. One of the big fears back then was the dreaded computer virus, but of course we also had to deal with internet abuse. I remember coming in to work one day to find our computer’s MSN Messenger still active from the night shift; Spoogecakes left herself logged in. Myself, I was never that fussed about MSN, I was more an email guy. I got busted emailing a few times, I had verbal warnings, but I never did anything like leaving myself logged into MSN!
The powers that be were concerned about time wasted on the internet, and the viruses. This put into effect a strict internet policy. Part of that was blocking nearly every useful site on the internet. There were only a handful of sites available to us. There was a secret password override, which made the rounds once leaked. The guy who figured out the password decided to share it on his very last shift. His name shall go down in hallowed halls, somewhere, someday.
Some of the sites that we were allowed to access included Canoe, so we could print out the charts, and Allmusic so we could do album lookups. Allmusic was next to useless, being so slow and inaccurate. I preferred Google. The beauty of Google was that you didn’t have to use it to actually go to another (potentially shady) site, you could use it just to answer a simple question. For example:
So there’s your answer, without even having to click on one of those shady lyric sites.
Now, I showed my bosses how to use Google to answer the toughest customer questions. Often, a customer would come in and say, “I’m looking for a song, but I only know a few words. Can you help?” This was long before you could hold up your iPhone and use an app to do it for you. You had to ask the folks on the radio, or at the record store.
Google was the easiest most accurate way to answer these questions. So, here’s a question you might get: “I’m looking for a song by somebody that goes, ‘in the midnight hour, I want more more more'”.
Plug it into Google like so, and you get your answer.
Again, you don’t even have to click on the shady lyric sites. Then once you know the artist (Billy Idol) you could just run over to the shelves and see if you had that song. If you didn’t, Allmusic could tell you which album you want, now that you knew the name of the song and artist.
I showed them this trick, but they would not budge on the block policy. They insisted that Google be blocked. They thought you could use Google to visit a blocked site. Just clicking the link, they thought, would bypass the block. They thought the block only applied to the address bar.
I explained this but the answer remained “No.” Google was to remain blocked, purely because they didn’t understand how Internet Explorer worked. Essentially, we were blocked from a simple tool to answer common questions. At least many of us secretly had the override password, but before that leaked, we couldn’t access a search site like Google. I had a customer say to me, “Can’t you check the internet? The guy at HMV can.” And no, technically I couldn’t. Allmusic didn’t have a feature to look up song lyrics, and its search engine was pretty shitty as it was.
With today’s technology you can do this easily with a cell phone, that was unimaginable to us 10 years ago. Regardless of the policy, I used the password to use Google and answer questions. And I checked my email, too!
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