Search Is Weird (A Found Poem) by Robert Peake

Monday, October 30. 2006

Search Is Weird (A Found Poem)

This is just bizarre. I was browsing through my site statistics, looking at the search terms people use to get here: poets, poetics, php — reasonable stuff. Then once in awhile a phrase would pop out that has nothing to do with this site. I’m sure the searchers were as disappointed as I am amused. I jotted down a few of them, then realized I could arrange them into a kind of found poem. Each line links to the page that came up in the search for that phrase, and if you hover over the link you can see how the linked page placed in Google for that phrase (as of writing this, anyway).

i hate billy collins
smoking out
emotional poems on 911
poems with the word fairy in them
does popularity matter?

Indeed.

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Hilarious. I get some really funny ones too.

proverbs of hell for dummies
bitchy poems
does the nose stop growing?
losers
squirrel whisperer

…hmmmm

#1 jenni (Link) on 2006-10-30 08:05 (Reply)

Aw, nuts! I SO wanted to corner the market on "bitchy poems." Well, we can’t all have everything…

#1.1 Robert on 2006-10-30 08:11 (Reply)

You just won’t believe it. As a result of this comment thread, which includes the phrase "bitchy poems" twice (and now a third time), I am now the #2 search result for this phrase. Almost makes me want to write one, to give the people what they want…

#1.2 Robert on 2006-11-05 00:44 (Reply)

Got to wonder how google works sometimes.

I got
"poem half a page long worth an A"
That gave me a chuckle.

#2 Pearl (Link) on 2006-10-30 17:48 (Reply)

Wow. Poignant chuckle that someone would search for a poem to plagiarize to get a grade. Seems more pathetic than plagiarizing prose somehow. And also pathetic to grade someone’s poem. Then again, I suppose in a way every publication, award, and MFA application is assigning a kind of grade to the poems they consider. Well, now I’ve just depressed myself.

#2.1 Robert on 2006-10-30 21:48 (Reply)

And as a result of this very post, someone found this particular entry by searching on the phrase, "disappointing things in life - poems." The depression continues…

#3 Robert on 2006-11-05 00:50 (Reply)

Mine from today is:
What are freckles?
journal paper
revision notes
on Sylvia Plath
Bell Jar

Thanks for dropping by Loose Leaf today.

#4 colleen redman (Link) on 2006-11-05 20:17 (Reply)

Oops. The last line should be "bell jewery." That was an understandable mistake!

#5 colleen redman (Link) on 2006-11-05 20:19 (Reply)

Ha! Long live free association. Thanks to you for stopping by. Search cracks me up. If Google were a person, she’d be very confused.

#5.1 Robert on 2006-11-05 20:22 (Reply)

And thanks to this post, I am now getting referrals from people searching for - you guessed it - "weird poems."

#6 Robert on 2006-12-16 17:45 (Reply)

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