The Internet Can Be a Creepy Place
Sunday, July 27, 2008 at 12:16PM I wrote a post asking for suggestion for mother/daughter movies. Off the top of my head, I dashed off a second post and titled it Mother/Son movies. Do you have any idea where I am going with this? I sure didn’t.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not my strong suit. The basic idea is to use words called key words, which people commonly plug into search engines, like Google, to find information on the web. You choose the right words and your blog pops to the top of the search engine’s listings. Easy in concept, not so easy in execution.
I was thrill to see all the queries I was receiving for the mother/son movie posting. From all over the world. How cool is that! Yes, I now realize I am too naïve to be allowed to wander the web on my own. My resident tech support person suggested I plug the key words back into Google and see what else pops up. Who the competition is in other words.
Plugged in the phase, and up popped…..oh my gosh! Mother/Son movies have very different connotations to some very sick people in the world. My husband called it global depravity.
You people should be ashamed of yourselves….you know who you are!
Sometimes you just have to weep for the sin of the world.
Another posting gets a significant (for my little blog) number of queries. Nowhere near the queries of shameful people with shameful hearts but enough to bring a smile.
It is the one I wrote on wedding vows .
Any other naive bloggers with a story to tell? Please, I can’t be the only one this formerly innocent.
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Reader Comments (7)
looking for a place to buy hiking boots in PA, googled Dick's Sports. nuff said
I have that also. Since teens is part of my title and I write about movies often I've gotten searches of people wanting teens in movies that are not the kind I'm discussing. It sickens me when I see this.
A sub-deacon in my church told me a story of a Priest's wife who did a search for "angels". She had to call a computer expert in to close all the pop-up windows that opened and "clean" her computer!
Oh my, that's just disgusting! The web can certainly be a scary place after all, it's a real shame.
Oh, gracious! We've had some odd search phrases, but I don't think we've had anything quite like that. Ew.
My nephew and his friends, the pastors kids, were playing on their dad's computer in the church office after service one sunday morning. They were typing www.(their first name).com. This turned up a really bad site when the daughter typed in her name. The pastor walked in shortly thereafter but not soon enough. The kids got quite a show. They were 10, 9, and 7. It kills me to think of the innocence lost.
Cindy, I would have never though that action would be a danger. Thanks for the heads up!