Quite a few could be 'bots indexing the pages. Presumably _all_ the pages
are set to be seen by 'bots?
At 15/06/98 17:55:52, "Jon Corelis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
# I suspect one reason a lot of people seek out Douglas's poems is that
# he is active in a number of Usenet groups, especially rec.arts.poems,
# which probably has a huge audience when you count the lurkers. People
# may decide they like the samples of his work which they've seen there,
# and want more of it. And of course in general there is a tendency to
# name-surf people who have become familiar to one from such groups out of
# curiosity to find out more about what they are like.
#
# As a test of this hypothesis, maybe he could contact other poets who
# are similarly active in Usenet and ask if their web pages are getting a
# similar number of hits. Or he could encourage one of the
# other poets he wants read to become active in Usenet groups and see if
# their hits rise.
#
# (On a vaguely related note, I have heard the vivid term "ego-surfing"
# used to describe feeding one's own name into a search engine. I'm sure
# most of us have done it. I know I have, but the results mostly concern
# some French software company to which so far as I know I have no
# connection.)
Roger
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