How do you find a web site?

As a general rule, most people find a web site through another web site. It could be a site you already have visited. It could be a search engine’s results. One site links to another, you click the link, and like magic here you are. That’s how the web was designed, of course. That’s why it’s called “the web.”

Run a web server long enough and you will find yourself digging through your server logs to determine from where a visitor arrived. Logs can tell you what link someone clicked to get to your web site. It’s sort of like spelunking only without stepping into bat guano.

Of all the search engines that send people this way, Google amuses to me to no end with its endless bizarre and sometimes delusive ability to steer people to Casa Escamoteurettes. Welcome one and all.

Purely in the interest of digital prurience — added to the fact that you know I love lists and haven’t done one in so long — here are some search phrases that have led people to your humble servant’s blog. And, while it might normally concern me mightily that some of these searches returned Escamoteurettes toward the top of some of the search results, one should never look a gift horse in the mouth. To wit:

where did the phrase “they drank the Kool aid” come from
stewart james classical mechanics falling keys
John Grinder jail
how to do the asher twist sleight magic
Free Will Deddy Corbuzier explained
five-star prediction thompson
gibson lucille+users
leblanc’s natural products
t shirt penguin “find a new angle”
carl sagan l ron hubbard
“richard tell” dentist
pod xt live programming hints
magic rants
voyager spacecraft medallion
“13 steps to mentalism” + “pdf”
ulf moerling trick
Biography Beliefs of David Fitzkee
magic impossible * trick add the numbers mentalism mind reading NLP
“comedy magic show” + “magic cafe”
“Ed Mcmahan” model
card tricks shuffling instructions exposed
l&l publishing barefoot
the great slidini magic tricks
milton erickson purple shirt meaning
Neo-Magic Artistry review
finger technique ultra-mental
magic tits (JL: a search phrase I thought belonged to Magic Mafia)
magic “book test” dale carnegie
millard longman
sachs/old bicycle
“cups and balls” routine “this example”
“Sandra Sisti”
nailwriter mccambridge
nick ruggiero
corinda + “card tricks”
suspend others terror cultivate air unpredictability
stanyons magic review
“red hot cold reading
the Gunnsight
“magic makers” “ghost kings”
” 202 methods of forcing” annemann download

Of course, listing these search phrases runs the risk of throwing Google into a Mobius loop the next time someone searches one of these phrases, but you know, that’s a risk I’m willing to take.