Curious search engine terms

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  carocat · Member · Apr 14, 2009 at 6:49 am

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  Hey there,

  I’ve noticed some curious search terms today that I’ve never seen before and they have a fair amount of hits:

  site:http://carocat.co.uk/ inurl:”2007″ 33 More stats
  site:http://carocat.co.uk/ inurl:”2006″ 13 More stats
  site:http://carocat.co.uk/ inurl:”2008″ 13 More stats
  site:http://carocat.co.uk/ inurl:”2009″ 3 More stats

  Has anyone noticed these before and know why they have so many hits? I can’t imagine all those people actually searching for that!

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 14, 2009 at 7:26 am

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  Those look like your archives. I’ve noticed that often google imagesearch returns links not to individual posts but to archives instead.

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  mark · Member · Apr 14, 2009 at 7:29 am

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  I use similar searches.

  I am getting really annoyed with Google because sometimes I search and this search engine – the one meant to give me the most relevant info – gives me a result from 2005, or 2000 or something equally prehistoric. So I use search terms like that to narrow things down.

  inurl is also useful for finding webcams of the world:
  http://birdtable.derby-college.ac.uk/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Language=4 for instance

  You can also search inurl:view/view/shtml and get wonders like this
  http://138.25.6.37/view/view.shtml
  http://217.125.138.27/view/view.shtml (busier when open probably)

  It’s an amusing diversion.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 14, 2009 at 7:42 am

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  Whoa, nifty! I wonder if we could get that with the eagle nest cam on Vancouver Island?

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  carocat · Member · Apr 14, 2009 at 7:46 am

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  Yeah, Google doesn’t always give the latest results, but then again who are we to question this infallible search engine?! ;)

  Thanks for the replies, raincoaster, Mark. Just strange I’ve never seen them before today and then with so many hits.

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  mark · Member · Apr 14, 2009 at 1:22 pm

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  http://www.google.com/help/operators.html

  Do go check that page out and try some searches.
  And don’t forget to use the – to exclude so searching for
  something
  will get you many result, but searching for
  something -blogspot
  removes all those results.
  Handy.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 14, 2009 at 1:24 pm

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  For your next bit of Google wizardry, you can tell me why I’m sandboxed. Pout, pout.

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  carocat · Member · Apr 15, 2009 at 6:04 am

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  That’s brilliant, Mark, thanks!

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  mark · Member · Apr 15, 2009 at 8:59 am

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  @rain – you sending Matt Cutts tweets? (that looks weird but you know what I mean) and sending daily emails to the blackhole called Google Support?

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 15, 2009 at 9:49 am

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  And I would do that because??? Actually, thanks to Twitter I know a friend of his, so we’ve got him surrounded. Sooner or later, everyone passes through Vangroover, and when he does, I’ll pop out of the trunk of his cab or something. You wanna go to Tris Hussey’s bachelor party? Well, guess who’s working the door that night?