Still haven't found what I'm looking for

Looking for porn in all the wrong places
Blogosphere

Sometime last year, DesiPundit ran a summary of a blogger's Greatest Attempted Hits. Most bloggers track USPs and referrals via something like Sitemeter; this guy (sorry, I can't remember his name) had listed the Top 20 Search Requests that had resulted in his page.

In other words, What People Were Really Looking For when they landed on his blog.

This week, I had some really interesting ones. I have taken out the weird machine-code between the keywords.

It's always gratifying when people look for "sirensongs" or "feringhee" or one of my other signature keywords. Heck, believe it or not, more than a few people even Google "Indologist at large."

I'm also pleased to see a number of people looking for Indian and related travel advice:

"dakshineswar temple"

"sudder street"calcutta backpacker accomodation

"dried foods ladakh"

"types of amoebas"

"bhutan altitude sickness death"

"licchavi democracy"

"meaning of teertha"

Or even names of my specific blogs or photos:

"organic orphanage"

"flower girl"


As usual, there are a few people looking for

"hot indian girls"

--who isn't? ;-)


Since I went to visit Ram Bomjom the "Buddha boy" a couple years ago, there are always requests for

bomjom location

"buddha boy" nepal

"mystic buddha boy meta"


Some appear very random indeed, and a bit confused:

"Geezer 2Bindia"

"Gandhi Seven Habits"

"pharma sutical"


But then there are more unusual requests, for

"caitlin derivation"

"what goddess of sri lanka believe in"

"love yourself in tibet alphabet"

and this week's favourite:

"uncut nepali men"

Life in the food chain

Upwardly mobile
Location: The Blogosphere

I just glanced at my sidebar and noticed.

So, this is what our ancestors in the primordial ooze felt like aeons ago.

I have moved up in the Truth Laid Bear Blog Ecosystem!

(For non-bloggers, this is one of the more fun and cleverly arranged blog-ranking snob systems. Blogs begin as Insignificant Microbes -- actually I was lucky, I started off as a Multicellular Microorganism -- and move their way up to Slimy Mollusc, Flappy Bird and finally Mortal Human.)

I am really not sure what the criteria are...except survival of the fittest or best-adapted.

I am proud to say that my blog - and perhaps by extension, myself - has evolved from Multi-Cellular Microorganism to Flippery Fish. I share this distinction with about 1000 other blogs including those named "Two Sock Knitters" and "Ziggurat Of Doom."

Before you know it, we'll be walking on land. No offense to those who don't believe in evolution (like some of my family members).

So my badge now reads:

I'm a
Flippery Fish
in the
TTLB Ecosystem