Search Engines for Match-Making?
Friday, January 25th, 2008I look up my Blog Stats every day and I keep a complete list of search phrases that attracted people to my translator’s blog. They are in a little file in a corner of my desktop, just in case they come in handy at a later stage…
But these search phrases can be weird.
See this one, and I’m not making it up:
“American billionaire buys 395,000 shares”
It’s a weird one, because:
1- I don’t know any American billionaire, or any that I am aware of.
2- I haven’t translated a book by an American billionaire, although I’d love to.
3- I never mentioned any American billionaire in my posts, even with a view to attracting visitors indirectly. Now I might am
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4- If there is an American billionaire who bought 395,000 shares of any stock recently (Société Générale doesn’t count…), he can feel free to contact me directly, as I am interested to explore what we might have in common, that Google/Yahoo/MSN has already spotted, and I haven’t.
5- If there is an American billionaire who bought 395,000 shares of any stock recently (Société Générale doesn’t count…), he can feel free to contact me directly, as I am interested to hear what useful tips (apart from online marketing offers) he would have for an aspiring French billionaire.
Naturally, I googled the phrase, but didn’t find anything conclusive (my URL).
Are search engines entering the match-making market now? Hmmmm… interesting.

