This blog is pretty neat. I mean I just think about something, write it down, click a few times, and then some people all around the world can read what I wrote. Thanks Internet!And thanks to this big fancy technology company called Google (you might have heard of them), I can see all sorts of information about the people who read the blog.Now, before you start worrying that I’m some NSA lackey who’s going to violate your privacy, let me say that all of the information is anonymous. It’s just data and I don’t have information that I can match to you.So I can see that someone from Dallas, Texas accessed my blog, but there are a lot of people in Dallas, and I don’t know which one of them stopped by Dry it in the Water. I can’t tell what else you look at on your computer, only that you were on my page at some point. But I can tell if you found the blog through Facebook, or Twitter, or a direct link, or, my favorite, a Google search.Besides looking at the sheer number of people who read the blog, and the various cities and countries from where those people read it, the most interesting information contained in the reports available to me are Google search terms.You would not believe some of the search terms people use to find my blog!Some search terms are obviously based on things that I’ve written, but other terms are completely surprising to me.Right now the most popular search term that brings people to my blog is “stampylongnose.” This is the name of a YouTube user who posts videos of him playing Minecraft. I mentioned him in a post about video games a couple of weeks ago. Other names that have led people here: Squanto, Dick Cavett, Scott Conant, pilgrims, Stephen Stills, and yes, even the biggest search term in the world, Taylor Swift.She’s a whole separate category of search terms. I’ve only mentioned her once, I think, in a post I did about her new record. But people have found my post using the following terms combined with her name: “1989 review,” “boys and boys and girls and girls,” “polaroids 1989,” “appropriate for ten year old,” and, of course, “is a skank.”I wrote a post about 9/11 and the variety of search terms related to it were very interesting. “What does never forget mean?” “Why shouldn’t we forget 9/11?” “What happened on 9/11?” “Will we always remember 9/11?” “Why are people saying never forget?”Those searches are a reminder to me that pretty much anyone younger than college-age right now, probably doesn’t remember 9/11 happening. So although it’s fresh in our minds for many of us, there’s a large percentage of the population who don’t have that same visceral reaction.Other search terms are actually quite touching or sad if you try to think of the situation causing people to search for them. “Do I have to grow up?” “What is good about growing up?” “How to make kids think you are a Disney princess.” “Tears dry on their own.” “My life gas tank is empty.”Some search terms are just screwy: “man jeans to wear,” “male full body shave Chicago,” “idiotic warning from a friend to another friend,” and “water is black Friday” are all search terms that have left me scratching my head.And, of course, since it is the Internet, there have been a number of provocative search terms that somehow lead people to the blog. If you happen to search for “2015 thong bikinis” you might end up at Dry it in the Water. Same with the intimidating sounding “things I could do to a bitch” and also, “miss America 2015 biggest tits.”Classy, eh?I’m not quite sure how Google searches work, since I’m positive that the paragraph above is the first time I’ve used the word “tits” in the blog.I hope the people who have entered such search terms have been as entertained by my blog as I have been by their searches. I’ve really enjoyed these little insights into the minds of some people on the other side of the screen.And by the way, I’ve intentionally left out some of the more risqué and extreme search terms. Some of them made my wife blush, and nothing makes my wife blush!So feel free to use your imagination to fill in those blanks.PREVIOUS POST: Sorry, But Most People Don't Care about Your Bumper StickerIF YOU LIKED THIS POST I BET YOU'LL ALSO LIKE: A Man's Miss America Recap+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Hey, did you like reading this? If so, you should Share it on Facebook so you can bring joy to others. You can also find tons of other posts by me here. And you can like my Facebook page, Brett Baker Writes. Please.
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