#oneaday Day 78: Reliable Source

Search terms are the blog topic that never gets old. Well, it might get old. I don’t know. No-one’s ever complained yet. So I’m going to cover it, even though I’ve done it several times in the past. This time, I’m going to look at search terms over different time periods, however, so it will be New and Exciting. And will also give you some insight into what people think I’m an expert on.

Let’s start with search terms from the past week. The top 5 are as follows:

• Offensive gifs
• meetings gif.animation
• “call of cthuty”
• internet dickwad
• things to do while waiting for a guy to call

None of these are things I’ve written about in the past week, which suggests I should return to some topics I wrote about some time ago. Now, I can actually pinpoint why most of these search terms have come up. “Offensive gifs” and “meetings gif.animation” are likely pointing at this post, though I’m not sure where “meetings” came from. Oh no, wait, the first animation is called “first meeting”. I stand corrected.

“Call of Cthuty” refers to this post, where I wrote a press release of the game I wished Call of Duty: Black Ops actually was.

“internet dickwad” refers to this post, where I pointed and laughed at 4chan having a pathetic little war with Tumblr and also posted the John Gabriel Greater Internet Dickwad Theory.

And “things to do while waiting for a guy to call” is not something I’ve specifically written about, but this post is about the nearest I think it’s possible to get.

Okay. So that’s this week. Let’s look over the last year. The top 5 for the last year looks like this:

• Divine Divinity (top by a considerable margin)
• offensive gifs
• I’m not Doctor Who
• fatal labyrinth
• persona 4

“Offensive gifs” is still hanging in there, but “Divine Divinity” hung around in my search terms for a considerable proportion of last year, thanks mostly, I assume, to this pre-#oneaday post. Divine Divinity, incidentally, is an excellent game, though its recent sequel is apparently not that great.

“I’m Not Doctor Who” is, of course, the title of this page, so you’d sort of expect it to come up in search terms a bit, though it’s not the kind of thing I would have expected people to be searching for on Google, unless they really wanted to find people who weren’t Doctor Who. Which I’m not, despite sharing my name with one of them. (Hence the name of this blog, in case you didn’t know.)

“Fatal Labyrinth” is a Sega Mega Drive roguelike game that I was excited to discover on the Xbox 360 Sega Mega Drive Collection. I wrote about it in another pre-#oneaday post.

“Persona 4”, oddly enough, despite being one of my favourite games of all time, doesn’t appear to be something I’ve written many specific posts on. Slightly misleadingly, searching for “persona 4” on this blog also brings up all posts in the “Personal and Opinion” category (which is most of them) and all posts with the number 4 in them (which is quite a lot of them). So… yeah.

All right. Let’s do the biggie. What are the most popular search terms that find my blog… of all time?

• Bioshock (2079)
• Divine Divinity (629)
• Bioshock Big Daddy (365)
• Big Daddy Bioshock (220)
• Fatal Labyrinth (149)

Well. There you go. Apparently, I liked Bioshock more than I thought I did.