As we continue to churn out thousands upon thousands of words of drivel, the search engines continue to eat them up. Now, keeping track of search terms isn't just a strange fetish; in fact, it inspired me to write about the Cleveland Browns elf, "Brownie", which is now, oddly, one of the most oft-visited posts. Much to our delight, of course, the occasional wacky search query will pop up in the logs (along with the queries of clearly ignorant/new internet users--something along the lines of "how can i find out how many touchdowns the cleveland browns scored between may 6 1985 and october 12 1991 thank you mr search engine sir?" comes to mind).

So today, I introduce a new feature, where I'll highlight a few unlikely or strange search terms that somehow resulted in a click onto our site.

1. "Bill Belichick boring nutcase" on Yahoo!

   Somehow, our October archives are the very first result you get in this search. Wouldn't being a nutcase make you decidedly not boring? My reaction here is that while Bill Belichick is no doubt boring, he is not quite a nutcase. In fact, he's likely the best (smartest) coach in the NFL. But my calling the week before Halloween "boring" and referring to William Green as a "nutcase" and mentioning Belichick all in the same month resulted in another reader, so hooray!
   
   

2. "mel kuiper mock nfl draft 2005" on Yahoo!

   Okay, an honest spelling mistake. But why do people still click ahead to our site? If you recreate this search, Yahoo clearly shows you where, in the same post, we used the words "Mel Harder" and "Duane Kuiper". We must be awfully intriguing to distract people from what they really wanted, what with our fascinating Duane Kuiper commentary and all.
   
   

3. "jhonny carson jokes" on Google

   Again, this misspelling is understandable. But Google tells you right away "Did you mean: johnny carson jokes". Corey and I shared a chuckle at the person who, looking for Carson jokes on the day of Johnny's unfortunate passing, would still click on a result which talks about Jhonny Peralta and Carson Palmer, even though it was obviously not what they were looking for.