{"id":102,"date":"2005-03-08T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2005-03-08T18:37:15","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T00:37:15","slug":"web-searches-i-have-experienced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/08\/web-searches-i-have-experienced\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting there is half the fun."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you find a web site?<\/p>\n<p>As a general rule, most people find a web site through another web site. It could be <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magicrants.com\/\">a site you already have visited<\/a>. It could be <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;c2coff=1&#038;q=escamoteurettes\">a search engine&#8217;s results<\/a>. One site links to another, you click the link, and like magic here you are. That&#8217;s how the web was designed, of course. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s called &#8220;<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webreference.com\/html\/tutorial2\/\">the web<\/a><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s sort of like spelunking only without <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmaa.mines.edu\/alumni\/mag_features_200001\/spelunking.htm\">stepping into bat guano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Purely in the interest of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thinksecret.com\/\">digital prurience<\/a> &#8212; added to the fact that you know I love lists and haven&#8217;t done one in so long &#8212; here are some search phrases that have led people to your humble servant&#8217;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 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/wotd\/index.pperl?date=19960730\">never look a gift horse in the mouth<\/a>. To wit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>where did the phrase &#8220;they drank the Kool aid&#8221; come from<br \/>\nstewart james classical mechanics falling keys<br \/>\nJohn Grinder jail<br \/>\nhow to do the asher twist sleight magic<br \/>\nFree Will  Deddy Corbuzier explained<br \/>\nfive-star prediction thompson<br \/>\ngibson lucille+users<br \/>\nleblanc&#8217;s natural products<br \/>\nt shirt  penguin &#8220;find a new angle&#8221;<br \/>\ncarl sagan l ron hubbard<br \/>\n&#8220;richard tell&#8221; dentist<br \/>\npod xt live programming hints<br \/>\nmagic rants<br \/>\nvoyager spacecraft medallion<br \/>\n&#8220;13 steps to mentalism&#8221; + &#8220;pdf&#8221;<br \/>\nulf moerling trick<br \/>\nBiography Beliefs of David Fitzkee<br \/>\nmagic impossible * trick add the numbers mentalism mind reading NLP<br \/>\n&#8220;comedy magic show&#8221; + &#8220;magic cafe&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Ed Mcmahan&#8221; model<br \/>\ncard tricks shuffling instructions exposed<br \/>\nl&#038;l publishing barefoot<br \/>\nthe great slidini magic  tricks<br \/>\nmilton erickson purple shirt meaning<br \/>\nNeo-Magic Artistry review<br \/>\nfinger technique ultra-mental<br \/>\nmagic tits <em>(JL: a search phrase I thought belonged to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/magicmafia.blogspot.com\/\">Magic Mafia<\/a>)<\/em><br \/>\nmagic &#8220;book test&#8221; dale carnegie<br \/>\nmillard longman<br \/>\nsachs\/old bicycle<br \/>\n&#8220;cups and balls&#8221; routine &#8220;this example&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Sandra Sisti&#8221;<br \/>\nnailwriter mccambridge<br \/>\nnick ruggiero<br \/>\ncorinda + &#8220;card tricks&#8221;<br \/>\nsuspend others terror cultivate air unpredictability<br \/>\nstanyons magic review<br \/>\n&#8220;red hot cold reading<br \/>\nthe Gunnsight<br \/>\n&#8220;magic makers&#8221; &#8220;ghost kings&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8221; 202 methods of forcing&#8221; annemann download<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, listing these search phrases runs the risk of throwing Google into a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.physlink.com\/Education\/AskExperts\/ae401.cfm\">Mobius loop<\/a> the next time someone searches one of these phrases, but you know, that&#8217;s a risk I&#8217;m willing to take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s results. One site links to another, you click the link, and like magic here you are. 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