Search Terms Say The Darndest Things
Through my website, I can check out how people are getting to this blog in a variety of ways– In the past, I’ve treated myself to a laugh riot by looking at search terms that have been leading people to my site. Sometimes it’s not the standard combination of words:
“slightly weirded out emotional feelings”– I have no comment on this one.
“hotdogs are good with ketchup slang phrase” — I have written about food, and a little about foreign languages, but I’m hard pressed to figure out where this comes from.
“how do i say thali?” - this one warms my heart ‘cuz I know I’ve helped another confused soul– I used to be this person. It’s the name of a typical Indian dish.
“backpacker salvation army mumbai surf — pure poetry, if you ask me. more stuff from my India entries
“booby pillows” I used this name for the clouds in my Manila installation, I think.
My entry on dirty words in Tagalog has brought quite a few fantastic search terms that aren’t exactly for the faint of heart:
“dirty words in tagalog”- cut to the chase, already
“tagalog tingle”- sounds like a jingle
“filipino words are flexible”
“boy brotsa”– wha?
and the unimaginable search term: “vagina smegma” Um, hi dad.
Unpredictably, I also get a lot of search term mileage from a passage I wrote about a gay man coming on to me in an Indian train station and another advance at a park in Ahmedabad, Gujarat– I mean, how was I to know that I was using popular nomenclature from the Indian Gay Underground? Go ahead and Google “Ahmedabad homosex” and remember this is a city of 4.2 million people-
“ahmedabad sex guide / ahmedabad night life” sorry, you’ve come to the wrong place folks!
“ahmedabad homo sex”, or if you please “homo sex in ahmedabad”
“gals homosex”
“ahmedabad park gay”– hey, I know where that is!
“gay ahmedabad”– fyi, homosexuality is illegal in the Subcontinent.
Having a name like mine makes a high placement on a search page a tough row to hoe– I have, however, moved up mightily since the article in the Statesman was published– next to some CS professor in Colorado with the sci-fi inspired “Timothy X. Brown,” the only Tim Brown on the internet who can hold a candle to yours truly is a Former Heisman Trophy Winner and Football Hall of Fame Alum. I like the clarity of the search terms that found my site. It’s something I’m not bold enough to carve out for myself most of the time:
“tim brown cartoonist”
“tim brown - art”
“timothy brown social worker texas”
“tim brown sculptor”
“tim brown portraits austin”
“artwork by tim brown”
“strong senders and tim brown”
and the weirdly awesome “tiny tim brown”
Alas, all good things must end:
“you re long time dead”