It's time for another episode of Bizarre Search Terms!

Variations on hot pictures of landon donovan are incredibly popular in the past few weeks. There must be some new photo spread on him that people are looking for. I did my public service last time, but if you people want more, you're gonna have to find it yourselves. The last thing I need is for Google to consider me any more of an authority on the subject.

My personal favorite has to be "help me cocteau twins, you're my only hope", which I am pretty sure is a secret Google message sent to me by The Angry Robot, or maybe Karin from Silk Velvet Asylum, since I sent them both secret Googlegrams a while back.

It's great fun, if you want to get into the act. Just devise a message that will hit the recipient's site on Google, and then click through. Voila! A secret message in the referral log.

Someone searching on AOL really wants to find neighborhood pedophiles or else pedophiles in my own neighborhood. My site is very sticky on the term "neighborhood", so even a single passing reference to pedophiles gets me pretty high in the list. Oh, well.

For discussing the anime film Revolutionary Girl Utena, I earned a hit on fighting schoolgirls. No surprise there.

I'm kind of worried about what the person who searched for naked librarian Jessa might really be looking for. Has the Bookslut got a stalker?

And the grand prize winner for bewildering search in this edition goes to:

comic strips with baby butts

I'm not sure whether to laugh or be somewhat afraid, so I'm chuckling apprehensively.

The dictionary definition of "Internet" really ought to be "something for everyone."

I'm used to seeing the daily visit from the blogdex spider now, but how pray tell did I get 45 referrals from blogdex in the past 24 hours?

According to the link info, my main page has never broken the top 20,000 on their indexes. It would take a lot of very patient readers to travel that low in the index listings.

Has anyone seen a specific story URL of mine on the top indexes there recently? This is really mystifying.

Either it's a bug in blogdex, a bug in antville, or something I said recently is becoming quite popular. And how likely is that?

I figured it out!

Remember when I added the "googlebait" content in the upper left corner, because Google was doing a very poor job of summarizing my site? And then it automagically fixed itself, to my utter bewilderment?

It turns out that my obsessing about this annoyance coincided exactly with my admittance to the dmoz directory, which is also the Google directory.

So if you, like me, have problems with Google's inability to properly describe your site, I highly recommend that you submit your site to dmoz with a quality description.

It will do wonders for the quality of your site summary, at least when people are searching for it by name.

Other searches will still show snippets that demonstrate the occurrence of whatever keywords they are seeking, which is all well and good.

I think I'll leave the googlebait there anyway, though. I'm kind of getting to like it.