Sunday, February 28, 2010

Mysterious Lurker

Who are you, mysterious lurker, who googles several times a week for "Ted Chauvin" or "Ted Chauvin Pullman," leading you to my blog? Inquiring minds (not just myself) want to know! Your location is unknown, your latitude and longitude point to Kansas, and you use Firefox. Who are you?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Haha, I never thought of myself as a lurker but I guess the model fits.

I came across your blog a year or two ago when I was looking for information on Spokane area cyclocross races. I think there was an entry or two on a race you were promoting. Your blog is an interesting mix of cycling and other stuff, so over time I seem to have added it to the long list of blogs that I frequent. I tend to search google with keywords that turn up the exact sites that I’m looking for as top hits, rather than going through a list of bookmarked sites—it’s just easier this way. It turns out that googling “Allison’s Blog, cycling etc” does not yield your blog as a top hit, and somehow in my return visits I ended up googling “Ted Chauvin” which turns up your blog as a top hit as well as other interesting NW cycling links. I’m not sure how the Google search algorithm works, but probably if you get all your friends to search and link to your blog ten times a day for the next week or so, you can then own the top search result.

Why the frequency? My job is REALLY boring and I have a lot of downtime, consequently I waste waaaaaay to much time surfing the internet. I tried reading a book once, but the environment is not really conducive to this type of activity. So, in the end I waste a lot of time at work reading cycling-related websites and blogs (esp. NW cycling). Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on your outlook then, Ted Chauvin does not have an internet stalker.

I was curious, so I searched for an IP address location. Depending on the IP address tracker used, you get hits in East ButtF$@k, Kansas or Northern CA. I live in neither of these places, thank goodness.

Hope that answers some questions. Good luck with the cycling season. Go Cougs!

The Lurker