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		<title>A Comedy of Search Engines</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sometimes amused by some of the ways in which people stumble across my blog.  I use Google Analytics to track my site statistics, so I get a nice breakdown of search terms used to find my site. While I&#8217;m usually glad to grab a new reader, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m really the site [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sometimes amused by some of the ways in which people stumble across my blog.  I use <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/">Google Analytics</a> to track my site statistics, so I get a nice breakdown of search terms used to find my site. While I&#8217;m usually glad to grab a new reader, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m really the site that some of these people are searching for in their great Googling adventures.</p>
<p>The search terms may be completely straightforward:</p>
<p><em>smrt lernins<br />
smrt lernins blog<br />
smrt mama<br />
smrt learnings<br />
patchfire eclectic girl</em> (who was looking for you and got me instead, <a href="http://patchfire.blogspot.com">Patchfire</a>?)</p>
<p>Sometimes the search terms are curricula-centered:</p>
<p><em>mct grammar<br />
can abeka be secular?<br />
building poems m clay<br />
ellen mchenry &#8220;the brain&#8221; homeschool<br />
compare just write and writing strands<br />
life of fred math overly christian<br />
jesus in math class/jesus mathematics/jesus math/bible verses on mathematics </em>(four separate searches)</p>
<p>Sometimes, the searcher clearly has&#8230;let&#8217;s just call them &#8220;strong feelings&#8221; on certain topics:</p>
<p><em>unschooling failure</em> (well, yes, I do give some examples of that here)<br />
<em>are there unschoolers that are not hippies</em> (yes, but the other unschoolers killed and ate them)<br />
<em>being unschooled did not prepare me</em> (Am I the only one who is terribly curious for what this searcher was unprepared?)<br />
<em>are home schooled children to sheltered</em> (My answer: No, but they are able to distinguish between &#8220;to&#8221; and &#8220;too&#8221;)<br />
<em>homeschooler sheltered</em> (also &#8220;sheltered homeschooler&#8221;)<br />
<em>pitfalls of unschooling</em> (better than &#8220;pit traps of unschooling&#8221;)<br />
<em>unschooling idiocy</em> (this works on a few levels, so please feel free to insert your own joke here)</p>
<p>And finally, the downright bizarre:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;a lot of pee&#8221;</em> (their quotes!)<br />
<em>captain underpants valuable lessons learned </em>(lesson learned: Don&#8217;t read Captain Underpants)<br />
<em>lern sex </em>(No! Learn spelling!)<br />
<em>distilling urine</em> (Ok, fair enough. I do have a post tagged with this)<br />
<em>etymology of sexy</em> (I&#8217;m pretty sure it derives from the word &#8220;sex&#8221;)<br />
<em>in the event of this tough situation</em> (break glass, remove homeschooler)<br />
<em>seculat thrusday</em> (yes, I know this is just a matter of typos, but what a glorious combination of typos!)<br />
<em>why is math hard for pretty girls</em> (because God doesn&#8217;t give with both hands)</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s the one search that really tugs at my heart strings, because I could have been the one who searched for it about a year ago:</p>
<p><em>homeschooling parents who feel panic and anxiety</em> (You aren&#8217;t the only one out there! I&#8217;m here! You aren&#8217;t alone!)</p>
<p>If you found my site through a search engine, how did you get here? If you were searching for my site, what do you think you&#8217;d search for? </p>
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