|
 For
the past six months
Bikwil’s Web site has been availing itself of the popular
Atomz search facility. Here
is a summary of how our visitors have been using it.
Based on
the reports Atomz provides me, I have to confess that
fewer visitors are exploiting its advantages than I’d
expected.
Why?
Well, it’s my belief that first-time visitors to our site are of two
types: (a) those looking for an electronic magazine to subscribe and/or
contribute to, and (b) those wanting material on specific subjects, to
which they are pointed directly by the hundreds of entries to Bikwil
in the Internet-wide search engines.
Of the
searches that do get done at Bikwil, however, some intriguing info
about the interests of those performing them can be deduced.
As often
as not, the interesting thing is what people are searching for and not
finding.
One
category includes newsy or controversial subjects like
Tampa
Kim
Hollingsworth
Big
Brother.
Such
topics would — if I may be so presumptuous — lie well beyond Bikwil’s
sphere of influence.
On the
other hand, a second group of “failed terms” being searched on might well
serve as jumping-off points to inspire Bikwil contributors to more
daring feats of enthusiastic writing. A short selection follows:
Christina
Rossetti
Emily
Dickinson
Byzantium
I
Love a Sunburnt Country.
So,
thinking caps on, everyone! |
