Browsing my referrer log, it turns out someone got to me by doing an AOLSearch on “clitoral regeneration”. FmH was the 12th of 38 results of that search, because of this article from my archives. Oops, now a “clitoral” search will probably point to the current (March ’01) page as well, and I may even rank higher on “clitoral regeneration” searches. Now, if we only knew what in the world they were really after… Another search that pointed to FmH was a Google query on “prisoner’s right to give interviews in India”; it pointed to one month’s archive in which I had several blinks with the word “prisoner” in them, and several (different) blinks referring to India.

The Disturbing Search Requests weblog, whose founders started out by monitoring their referrer log, is having a similar problem, reports the Village Voice: ‘…by spotlighting the freakiest of the freaky, Disturbing Search Requests has become so loaded with
hot-button search terms that it is itself pulling in plenty of traffic from confused search engines. The site
gets more than 1500 visitors a day, most of them more interested in “nude tennis” or “hairy armpits” than in
meta-Web humor.’