Thursday, December 11, 2008

Fame comes in many forms

So remember how a week or so ago Randall Munroe wrote a blog post about various phrases that do and do not return hits on google? Well I happened to mention on here that the phrase "my bologna has a first name, it’s A-D-O-L-F" (which I will note was on the list of phrases Randall did not originate, thank you) made me laugh very hard in a public place.

Now given that he mentioned searching for these phrases on google, I expected a lot of people to search for them and see where they appeared. I did not expect this:

This blog is the first hit! That's absurd. It's right above the post I was referring to, the post I linked to, and most importantly, the post on Randall Munroe's blog which like 8 billion humans read. Incidentally it works without the quotation marks, too - that actually moves Randall down to #3 and I stay at #1. Nearly 200 people have found this blog by typing in that phrase. That's more, in the time since I wrote the post, than found this blog by searching for "xkcd sucks" which is the freaking url. Thanks for the info, google analytics!

Anyway, I don't know how long it will stay true so test it while you can. The internet is a strange place.

update: Well that's that. As nerodetoasabay writes in the comments, I have been overtaken, and not even by something cool, just some random page with little more than that quote, no explanation or anything. I'm still above the xkcd blog though! And I have my screen capture. My screen captures are enough for me.

20 comments:

  1. Carl Wheeler, you make me laugh.

    Your star is rising! Congratulations =P

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  2. It appears that after this post your first and second, and xkcd is 4th

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  3. A comment on the XKCD blog said that the actual intended result for 'my bologna has...' can't be found any more because it was a child pornography site, and it's been taken down.

    Don't quote me on that, though - it was just one comment on the blog and I didn't read further.

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  4. Now that it truly amazing.

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  6. Don't worry, Carl, there's still an old-school (see: months-old) core of readers who arrived here by googling "xkcd sucks" and still not arriving here for several results.

    Captcha: fidishn! Rhymes with tradition!

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  7. Your reputation precedes you, Mr. Wheeler.

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  8. I have no idea how I found this blog. I feel like I need a story. (Weird: I am hanging out with people where saying 'yeah, I'm going to be posting on the XCKD: Overrated blog' gives me nerd cred.)

    That is awesome. Search terms are amusing. (My blog gets a lot of "making out in public places" hits...)

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  9. I honestly don't know what to say to that. That is very cool.

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  10. Double - that is a little weird. I wonder what the story is there. And whether Randall really found it through google after all.....

    Thomas - you know that I started this blog after searching for "xkcd sucks" and not finding anything, right? It's nice to know other people think the same way.

    ROB: WHAT THE HELL. I have never, ever been in a situation where people think I am cool for writing on here AND IT'S MY FREAKIN BLOG. how do you manage to get so much fame off my work???

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  11. Carl- Your blog is like an obscure indie band. Almost nobody's heard of it, but to those who do, knowing about it gives you major cred.

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  12. A small rewording.

    Carl- Your blog is like an obscure indie band. Almost nobody's heard of it, but in the right circles, knowing about it gives you major cred.

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  13. I found the blog this way. It makes sense too. Who googles Adolf bologna? Only the 8 million people who saw it on xkcd and are trying to figure out who the hell would have used that phrase. No need to click on xkcd again, just came from there.

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  14. Salazar - I hope that's true. It makes me feel important. Still, the point is that I'm not in any of those circles. Whatever. I'll be a celebrity soon enough.

    Anon - This makes a lot of sense. I wonder how my blog ended up so high, but I guess not that many people quoted it.

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  15. As of 121208, you have been moved down to #2 and replaced by this. Haven't a clue what it is.

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  16. Well crap, you're right. What the hell is that, anyway. Guess I have to update the post.

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  17. Guilty. Found this blog exactly in the described manner. I simply NEEDED to know who else's bologna shared names with the Fuhrer. And as a long-time XKCD reader, I was delighted to find another so distraught by the comic's declining quality. A cynical companion for the tri-weekly updates. Rock on, Carl.

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  18. This is how I found this blog.

    Seriously.

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