Given how few hits there are on the blog, it's surprising how high it comes up in some searches. E.g., back to first page for the (mathematically important) search " Urysohn metrization theorem". Additionally, a number of (fairly silly) multiword search seem to bring WDJ up on the first page of results (at least, last I tried) :
Palin monostich
penguin monostich
woodchuck monostich
Cantorian penguin
Cantorian penguin
sciuridean minimalism
Chestertonian woodchucks
(along with “penguins united for urysohn”, “woodchucks love metrization”)
That observation might seem idle, but was prompted by a blogspot-reported keyword search that someone did, “funny monostitch”, which somehow found the blog despite the misspelling. And the quite vague-looking “justice flash”, later "insidious phrase", was actually searched on and found the blog -- appearing, incredibly, on the first page of Google returns.
The following don’t work:
Trinitarian prairie dogs
frisky marmots frolic in Cantorian realist bliss
chesterton lewis locke chomsky "william james"
Actually, in the last case, Ggl’s results are bogus. E.g. they offer as a match
but there is no mention there of the other names. Some bug in the search engine.
“Humble hedgehog” brings us up only on the second page, but that for the heart-warming reason that many fine people spend attention on our spiky friend.
Of course, much as a measurement in quantum mechanics causes the collapse of the thitherto free-floating wave-function, so publishing this very post may perturb the results for those last unfindable phrases.
[Update, an hour later]
Ha ! Gotta love it !
Search on "Trinitarian prairie dogs" ... this site comes up at the top.
God bless ya, you furry little Trinitarians ...
[Update 30 July 2011]
Someone just found this site via a search on
Quine quiditas
Some curiosities of this:
(1) Google, high-handedly, assumes you don't know how to spell, and throws your request away, presenting instead results for
Quine Quiddities
-- somewhat understandably, since "Quiddities" is indeed the title of one of the master's (lesser) books.
(2) If you insist on the original search-terms, the first match is to someone who really doesn't know how to spell, a reference to Quine's book mis-cited as "Quiditas" (again, understandably, since Quine's title is a pun on that traditional philosophical term). However, the next two hits take you here.
(3) The take-home for me as a blogger is -- keep on a-usin' them fifty-dollar terms, 'cause folks search on 'em and find the post they want !
So -- if you should catch me using some sesquipedalian hapax legomenon --- don't chide, it has its uses.
[update 1 Aug 2011] Someone just found this site via a search on
cow accelerator
Gotta love it.
[update 3 Aug 2011]
Someone just somehow found the site via a search on
dr david justice
Don't know how -- almost all the Google hits refer to a certain homonymous psychiatrist (doubtless a most distinguished man of medicine). But to aid such searches, we add these phrases here:
"Dr David Justice"
"Dr. David Justice"
"Doctor David Justice"
"David Justice, Ph.D."
"le docteur David Justice"
"Herr Doktor David Justice"
"Herr Geheimrat Dr David Justiz von und zu Stein"
That should do it.
[Update 17 Aug 2011]
To my intense alarm, someone just found the site via a search on the single word
sexxx
There, I thought, goes the neighborhood.
But when I searched on that word myself, this blog did not come up anywhere in the first six pages of Google returns, at which point, with a sigh of relief, I gave up.
My interest piqued, however, I proceeded to a phrasal search on
"wholesome family values"
(which occurs on this blog as a Label, though not generally in text). Once again, pages of hits but not this one. But! Just add one magic little word,
"wholesome family values" woodchuck
and voilà ! first hit on the first page !
Now really intrigued, I tried several other AND searches,
causality woodchuck
cosmology woodchuck
minimalism woodchuck
etc., and in each case, this blog came up on the first page, often as the first hit.
[Update 26 April 2012] Yipes, most of these no longer work!
Moriarty you fiend! This means war!
So, executive summary:
FOR BEST RESULTS, WHEN SURFING THE NET, ADD "WOODCHUCK" TO YOUR EVERY QUERY. YULE B GLAD U DID.
Someone just found this site via a search on
Quine quiditas
Some curiosities of this:
(1) Google, high-handedly, assumes you don't know how to spell, and throws your request away, presenting instead results for
Quine Quiddities
-- somewhat understandably, since "Quiddities" is indeed the title of one of the master's (lesser) books.
(2) If you insist on the original search-terms, the first match is to someone who really doesn't know how to spell, a reference to Quine's book mis-cited as "Quiditas" (again, understandably, since Quine's title is a pun on that traditional philosophical term). However, the next two hits take you here.
(3) The take-home for me as a blogger is -- keep on a-usin' them fifty-dollar terms, 'cause folks search on 'em and find the post they want !
So -- if you should catch me using some sesquipedalian hapax legomenon --- don't chide, it has its uses.
[update 1 Aug 2011] Someone just found this site via a search on
cow accelerator
Gotta love it.
[update 3 Aug 2011]
Someone just somehow found the site via a search on
dr david justice
Don't know how -- almost all the Google hits refer to a certain homonymous psychiatrist (doubtless a most distinguished man of medicine). But to aid such searches, we add these phrases here:
"Dr David Justice"
"Dr. David Justice"
"Doctor David Justice"
"David Justice, Ph.D."
"le docteur David Justice"
"Herr Doktor David Justice"
"Herr Geheimrat Dr David Justiz von und zu Stein"
That should do it.
[Update 17 Aug 2011]
To my intense alarm, someone just found the site via a search on the single word
sexxx
There, I thought, goes the neighborhood.
But when I searched on that word myself, this blog did not come up anywhere in the first six pages of Google returns, at which point, with a sigh of relief, I gave up.
My interest piqued, however, I proceeded to a phrasal search on
"wholesome family values"
(which occurs on this blog as a Label, though not generally in text). Once again, pages of hits but not this one. But! Just add one magic little word,
"wholesome family values" woodchuck
and voilà ! first hit on the first page !
Now really intrigued, I tried several other AND searches,
causality woodchuck
cosmology woodchuck
minimalism woodchuck
etc., and in each case, this blog came up on the first page, often as the first hit.
[Update 26 April 2012] Yipes, most of these no longer work!
Moriarty you fiend! This means war!
So, executive summary:
FOR BEST RESULTS, WHEN SURFING THE NET, ADD "WOODCHUCK" TO YOUR EVERY QUERY. YULE B GLAD U DID.
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