Search Engine Query Belt Buckle


Funny how things come and go...cleaning up magazine clippings just now, came across a note on Metaspy, the voyeur into other people's searches from about 1997, later acquired by Excite, and later cast into utter outer-darkness. While looking into it's whereabouts, i came across the How-To Instructions for the latest in fashion-forward-fads, a belt buckle that displays other people's searches in real-time...the Search Engine Belt Buckle !! It's feed is from Dogpile's Search Spy.

As you may recall, Dogpile has gone thru several incarnations. Once, years ago, a great customizable search tool, later an annoying pay-per-click commercial pseudo metasearch....now I see that it includes a lot of ad SERPS (search engine result pages) but attempts to also compile a portion of its results from top search engines rankings.

And i see that on a search for clic magnet glasses it lists me in position 8 and 14, so it can't be all bad !! (There was a time when it was nothing but ads in first several pages. )

Anyway---since i do not want to call attention to my waist at the moment, i may make a search engine hair clip...or lapel pin. But in the meantime, go to Search Spy to see what other weirdo earthlings are currently searching for....then you will understand how depraved mankind truely is.

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