"i think this guy is looking for you"

It's time again to recap the week at WTB in terms of Google Analytics. The top searches that brought people to the site all pertained to football players that had negative press during the week:

OJ Simpson
Brady Quinn
Ron Mexico
Vince Young

Sadly, Jamie Kotsay and the Snorg girl continue to fall off drastically as the weeks go on. This week did see two more searches for the classic "how to spot ghosts", which delighted me more than I can say. Now on to some of this week's best searches:

"i got a vick pitbull"
"how to make it to the d league"
"what is sis boom bah cheerleader"

While those are all good searches in their own right, the undisputed winner of this week's "WTB Search Of The Week Award" goes to...

"i think this guy is looking for you"

This one is just a little...weird. Who searches something like that? Are those song lyrics I don't know? My question would be, who is the searcher, the guy who is looking for someone or the person being looked for? The two possibilities hold such different outcomes. On the one hand, the searcher could be a dumb serial killer who is googling trying to figure out how to stalk people best. On the other, the searcher is a frightened person who is living every single day in fear of "this guy". Either way...they came to WTB. So welcome dumb serial killer or frightened person. I hope you like sports.

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"Negative Qoutes About Losers"

Another week down, another post of fun google searches. This week the dominant search that brought people to the site was either some permutation of "mike vick update" or "ron mexico t-shirt". "Snorg girl" and "Mark Kotsay's wife" are still going strong, but have lagged considerably behind the search monster that is the Vick scandal.

Now on to the fun stuff. Here are a few of the odder searches that brought people to this neck of the woods:

"40 and older slam dunk contest"
"battle of the jordan"
"gophergutz"
"marline monroe hot kissing video"

Good searches all, but none of them can stand up to this weeks' winner of the "WTB Search Of The Week Award", which goes to;

"negative qoutes about losers"

Why is this search great? As with all of the great searches I have featured here, the image of the person searching this just cracks me up. With this one I imagine some high school bully who has been recently rebuffed by an intelligent quip by one of his victims. Tired of merely pounding his foil into submission, he goes home and googles "negative qoutes about losers" to find some witty ammo. And what did he find? A post of mine about Yi Jianlian. Go figure.

"How To Spot Ghosts"

Google Analytics really is a fun little toy. Last week I examined how the main searches that led to WTB were related to Jamie Kotsay and Alice the Snorg Girl, and both remained strong again this week. The undisputed winner however, was Ron Mexico. Here is a sampling of some of the many searches from the past week related to the dog fighting scandal;

"ron mexico dog fighting"
"dirty bird dog fighting"
"dog fighting"
"ron mexico dog"
"mike vick and ron mexico"

And as always, here are some of the more...interesting...searches;

"prices on tim duncan's starting lineup rookie doll"
"take the battle out of winning"
"thank you very much and see you friday at the latest!"
"chris carter cocaine football"

While all of those searches each have their own wonderful aspects, they are not top prize material this week. No, that distinction goes to a search that is oddly similar to last week's "How To Spot If I'm Magical". This week's "WTB Search Of The Week Award" goes to...

"how to spot ghosts"

Just like last week, I am extremely amused by thinking about the person that was googling this phrase. Did they think they were around ghosts? Did they want to find ghosts? Were they just looking for the information just in case they ever did come across a ghost? Sadly I cannot find what post popped up for this search. Maybe it has something to do with having Ghosts of Wayne Fontes on my blogroll? Anyway, maybe next week someone else in the internet world will type in "how to spot...fairies or goblins or if I am dying", and WTB will magically pop up. Actually, that is my official guess for next week's search term. "How to spot if I'm dying". Or something likewise odd.

"How To Spot If I'm Magical"

A few days ago I was reading The Smittblog, and I saw this fantastic post about the most ridiculous searches that brought people to his site. I was so inspired by it that I decided to sign up for Google Analytics to see exactly what people searched that brought them to WTB. So here is this week's breakdown, and I will start doing this weekly for you and I's mutual amusement.

As I looked over the Google searches that popped up with Winning The Turnover Battle as one of the top results, I saw three main trends. First, there were a lot of Snorg / Snorg Girl/ Snorg Model related searches. Second, and somewhat more suprising, was that "Mark Kotsay's wife" seemed to be the second most popular. Evidently there is a much bigger market for Jamie Kotsay on the internet than I knew about. The third general trend was searches involving Yi Jianlian in some way, which does make sense to me since I have done a number of stories over the past few weeks concerning his current situation.

Now on to the good stuff. Here are some of the oddest searches that people put in to bring up the blog:

"sudden attack"
"caucasian wide receiver"
"wie suck fest"
"non alcoholic fufu drinks"
"dog fights in mexico"
"flip flops that don't flip or flop."

Most of these I could reasonably see people searching for, though I am a bit worried about the leisure time activities of the person that searched for "dog fights in mexico". While the above searches are quite amusing, none of them struck a chord with me quite like this gem, which is the winner of the first ever "WTB Search of the Week Award":

"how to spot if im magical"

This search has so many wonderful layers to dissect. Who is the person that searched for this? Were they truly wondering what the answer to the question was? Did they actually think that they were magical? And the best question of course, is how on earth did a sports blog pop up in such a search? I tested out the last one, and it seems that the most pertinent site on the internet for that question is in fact my post about the Orlando Magic signing Rashard Lewis. Go figure.