laneys.info Beware of Yankees, drunks, and loose women.

It's amazing what you can learn about people, even if you don't know them.  I was digging through some of the logs for this site, combatting the latest round of spammers trying to post their filth as comments, when I noticed something I hadn't before:  I get statistics from the site software on how people are coming into the site.  In geek terms, it's called the "referrer" and it basically shows where you were before you came here.  It's not surprising to me that the #1 referrer, at 6021 hits and counting, is Google.  The part I like are the ones with only one or two hits.  They are simultaneously entertaining and disturbing, and sometimes I really wonder how they got here from there.  Case in point: the Canadian who came here from Google after searching on "after eating steak pain and vomiting of white stringy mucus."

I swear, I'm not making that up!  The referrer was:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=after+eating+steak+pain+and+vomiting+of+white+stringy+mucus&hl=en&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-10,GGLD:en&start=70&sa=N

While I can't interpret the entire string, I know that person was really searching diligently.  Google defaults to showing 10 results per page, so the "start=70" means that they had already gone through pages 1-6 and found me on page 7.  Or, how about this one:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=moses+commandments+at+mt.+siani&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

That one's a Mac user (Safari is the web browser that comes with Apple OS X) seeking spiritual (or at least historical) information.  In my opinion, if they're looking here, they're scaping the bottom of the barrel.  Likewise, these:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=PaC&q=Netanyahu+antichrist&btnG=Search

http://www.google.com/search?q=is+the+antichrist+going+to+be+a+Christian%3F&hl=en&rls=DVXB,DVXB:2005-32,DVXB:en&start=10&sa=N 

Apparently, my site is ranking highly among Google results for those with echatological curiosity.  Ah, but here's the true gem that I found through all this digging:

http://www.google.ro/search?q=inurl:node/+login+register+comment+inurl:.info&hl=en&start=30&sa=N

That, my friends, is Google's Romanian mirror enabling some piece of filth spammer to find my site through the top-level domain (inurl:.info) and the way my site's software registers users, logs them in, and allows them to publish comments (inurl:node/+login+register+comment).  I doubt there's anything I can do about it, but at least I know where they're coming from.