Search Oddity

Last night, I was checking the recent visitors report generated by SiteMeter, and I noticed one visitor had gone through 12 pages on the blog (which is quite a bit more than average). I was curious about what brought that person here; it turned out that they’d reached the site through an MSN Search for “November 2002”.

As of last night, this blog’s November, 2002 archives were the 8th result from that search. I can’t imagine what brought me so far up on the result list — though my blog is also high on MSN if you search for “November 2000” or “November 2001”.

Sometimes, I wonder about the web….

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Thanks to Jason for pointing out the demise of Western Union’s telegram service on Friday.

I never sent any telegrams, though Diane had to send one to a Realtor when we were bidding on this house (she was in Florida at the time). Today, of course, she’d send a fax (even back then, faxes were almost available — somewhere in my files, I have a FedEx ZapMail receipt for some part of the paperwork we had to deal with). And we got at least one congratulatory telegram at our wedding. But I guess telegrams had already outlived their usefulness when Western Union started to deliver them by phone.

If there still were telegrams, though, I might have considered sending one today to mark Jeff’s 16th birthday. Happy birthday, Jeff!