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Five Weirdest Search Queries of 2011

by Hayley E Lavik on December 30, 2011

It’s been another year of posting opinions for all the Interwebs to see, and another year of Analytics ticking away quietly in the background logging all sorts of data about the site.

Now and then, that data is truly hilarious.

Here, in no particular order, are

Five bizarre search queries that led people to my site

  • blood splatter from a shotgun blast to the face
This query stands in for ALL the people who came to my site this year looking for information on what happens when you’re decapitated, how much blood spurts from a decapitated head, what type of blow creates a fine mist of blood…I could go on. I know what brought them here, and I’m just gonna hope they’re all writers. Writers need to know about shotgun blasts to the face, right?
  • rivers of poop 

Okay, now I had a lot of poop queries this year. Some of them were pretty bizarre, a lot involved fetishes, but this one takes the cake… because it had a  0% bounce rate. Somebody found what they came looking for.

  • sex anima lavik life vedio

You know…learning there are nude photos out there of someone with the same last name still doesn’t top learning that this site is a better match for those keywords.

  • dear god this migraine fucking sucks

I hope you feel better now.

  • not all stories end with the characters living “happily ever after.” consider the importance of a happy ending in a work of literature. is it necessary for the story to be satisfying? explain your opinion using specific examples from the texts you have read in this unit and elsewhere.

Okay, this is my favourite. Not only is this a blatant test question copy-pasted into a search engine, but this query brought multiple hits to my site, including some with variations on phrasing. Someone tried so hard to avoid doing their English work.

Do you track your search results? I’d love to hear the most bizarre things that brought someone to your site!

4 Comments Leave one →
  1. You know what, I don’t keep track of these results. But thanks to this post, I’m going to start. Thanks!

  2. I’m with Diane. After reading your results, I’m going to start tracking mine. thanks for the tip.

  3. I get some of the oddest and funniest spam and search hits. If I hadn’t deleted some of the spam I’d share it. I had one this morning that was something like “you can own this iPhone not matter what purse owns you.” Apparently some poor person has been forced into servitude by their Prada.

  4. This is hilarious! My new website hasn’t been up long enough to have such choice searches, but I’ll be sure to look next year. Love the test question lol. Hope they got an A from your site!

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