Small world...
One of my duties at work is maintaining the automated MusicFrom.nl headlines overview. Today, I noticed the Live XS headlines weren't refreshing. So I check out their site, happen to do a View Source, and find a reference to my own forum!

Big shift in this site's top search strings this month:

625       10.75%  optical camouflage
112        1.93%  vb3 decompiler
100        1.72%  opera 7 crack
98         1.69%  brandon vedas
84         1.44%  unterminated string constant
81         1.39%  opera 7 serial

Currently, clicks via Google comprise an amazing 4.68% of all my referrers. And it's mostly for weblog entries from years back... Here's an overview of the top search strings for this month and the months of 2002:

January 2003
294        2.01%  vb3 decompiler
286        1.95%  unterminated string constant
235        1.61%  css scrollbar
198        1.35%  try2hack solutions
177        1.21%  try2hack
132        0.90%  bastard pop
117        0.80%  sand
116        0.79%  try2hack answers
113        0.77%  php upload
104        0.71%  css cellspacing

Google Information for Webmasters - "Amazingly, we get these spam emails too: Dear google.com, I visited your website and noticed that you are not listed in most of the major search engines and directories..." [via mados]

'Zo werken zoekmachines' ('How searchengines work') infographic; oh yeah, that clears things up. From this article. [via Low]

"GET /robos.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 272 "-" "metabot (crawler@metacarta.com)"

Glimpses of various stages of Google's History assembled by the Google Weblog. [via Suppose]

Waisting time with Google Images games: try to find a human first name (martijn, henk, piet) that results in the most photos of people wearing glasses. Bonuspoints if the first result is someone with glasses.

#     Hits      Search String
1  373  18.86%  consideyellow
2   42   2.12%  stem van nederland
3   31   1.57%  trytohack
4   28   1.41%  unterminated string constant

I guess it was bound to happen... This site is now first result in Google for all those misspelt words I mentioned in 1511.

Google Search: consideyellow
Google Search: consideblue
Google Search: considegreen
Haha. Be careful with global search-and-replace. [via ntk.net]

Even more: scayellow, offeyellow, offeblue, offegreen, offeorange! rendeblue, rendeyellow, requiwhite, requiblue, requipurple, requigreen, manufactublue, blackecorate, cblueibility.

And this single page coins the following new words:
- transferyellow
- yelloweems
- cyellowits / cyellowited
- one hundyellow
- requiyellow
- yellowundant
- yellowuce
- enteyellow

I'm gonna start using these words. Be prepagreen!

Oh alright... Elephant's Toes.

"how do we disable scrollbar"

I like the plural in this Google search referrer. How do we, indeed.

labs.google.com - Google Demos [via :)= Esc]

If you like browsing website thumbnails, check out these giant open directories used by the new Alexa/Amazon/Google search engine:

thumbnails.alexa.com/images/bigjpeg/
thumbnails.alexa.com/images/smalljpeg/

Getting occasional hits from an indexing-bot calling itself obidos-bot, saying it's just looking for books. Hmm...

Google Search: milo - I'm top-result once again. Nice...

Google Search: "nothing to see here"

Abondance : Transcript of a chat with two Google employees - some interesting questions and answers about the way Google does its thing.

How many server on Google's cluster?
[...]It's over 10,000 at this point. We're starting to get a little scared because we think that one computer has learned how to order other computers. ;)

[via sashadesign.com]

Google Search: intitle:"Untitled Document"

Niet in Google te vinden:
  - programmeertaalgebrabbel
  - afwasbesparing
  - ...

catalogs.google.com - Search and browse mail-order catalogs online. Type in a keyword and you get scanned catalog pages with your keyword actually highlighted! Some impressive OCR'ing going on there... [via Zidouta]

20 Year Archive now Available on Google Groups [via Weblog Wannabe]

Kobala.nl - new Dutch search engine. With unfiltered searchlog! [via alt0169.com/start]

Google-referrer of the day: 'making someone bald in photoshop'

CNET.com: Google tests snapshots of Web pages [via erroneous referrer]

Oh yeah!! I beat Milo Manara and am now the top result when searching Google for 'milo'. And why? Because I wrote: "Searching
for 'milo' now returns this site as the second result", which Google noticed when reindexing. You can't observe something without affecting it, I guess. [reference]

Google query of the day: "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around does it make a sound".

Google update: Searching for 'milo' now returns this site as the second result. Nice.

Wow, first result on a single keyword.

Getting *lots* of hits via Google now. Look at the Referrers-list. 10 google-hits in the last hour. A wide variety of keywords, too, which is neat.

dutchbint.org has an interesting approach to handling 'inappropriate' search referrers. [via lgf]

I'm impressed by how quickly Google re-indexes my site. I quite often get hits for keywords I only posted a couple of days ago (such as the Try2Hack link).

'Naar afbeeldingen gezocht voor "jeroen+bosch"'

Cool... Searching images.google.com for images within the domain milov.nl gives me a nice thumbnailed overview of all sorts of graphics and elements from my designs and my i.am/bald pages.

images.google.com! [via antenna]