How People Find WebWord When Searching
Sticky Notes (#7 position)
Usability of Back Button (pretty specific query)
Metrics (#6 position)
Javascript Interview Questions (#1 position)
Warchalking (#4; remember warchalking?)
Google Voice Search (WebWord covered this in 2002)
Ghosts throwing or moving things (#1 position)
How to interview User Interface developers (Great query! #4 position)
Voyeur Web (Plenty of useless traffic from search for voyeur; here’s why)
User model (#1 position; posting about Flickr)
Webword (#1 position; was the UK user looking for this Webword?)
Remove Lycos (#8 position on Yahoo)
Interview Computer Operator (#13 position on Yahoo)
How can you use javascript to enhance a web site (#2 position; long query)
Steve Krug (#12 position)
Hodgkins Indiana (#3 position; Surprisingly popular blog entry)
Business case (#4 position; surprising, no?)
Average amount of days to cross the united states (#1 position; hmm…)
Also, by reviewing my referer logs, I learned more about:
- Netvibes
- Nutch
- Krugle
- Why does (so much) software suck? (Krugle blog post)
- Feedfetcher (Google’s Feed Grabber)
- Tailrank
- Attensa
- Live Journal WebWord (I didn’t create this.)
- Avant Browser
- yinanxia is a bandwidth thief (Tsk, tsk; see the image properties)
- Dave Bau is still around (WebWord interview)
- Wikipedia entry for Xanga (WebWord interview with John Hiler)
April 13th, 2006 at 8:12 am
John, the rankings on some of these searches are already out of date (I can’t even find a few of them on the search pages at all). Can you link to the articles as well?
April 14th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
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June 7th, 2006 at 4:48 am
woah =P fyi, i randomly came upon your “precious picture” from solid07 forums (someone posted that picture up without mentioning you either). how come you had to pick on my xanga instead of the forum (which i’m sure has much more bandwidth stealing than my little blog). calling someone a thief for linking one small picture is lame. ppl hotlink from my stuff all the time and i don’t give a who. besides, a 28k picture can’t kill much bandwidth.