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Fucking around with Irishblogs.ie

Irishblogs.ie is a funny ‘ol site. Not ha ha funny, but funny in a weird ‘what the fuck?’ kind of a way.

I don’t use the site very often (well, practically never) but tonight I felt compelled to have a look and see if someone, anyone at all, was out there blogging about something other than blogging itself or the Blog Awards which, incidentally, are nerdtacular, despite what Twenty would have you believe. Or at least that’s what I’ve heard… Needless to say, the ‘normal service’ you would expect from the blogging community has not yet resumed, with most of the bloggerers still patting each others backs or nursing their nerdy little hangovers.

I then happened to notice that Irishblogs have a ‘Popular Searches’ link thingy somewhere down the right hand side of the page and was somewhat confused by it’s contents. Being a bit of a nerd myself I have an Alexa toolbar which informed me that Irishblogs is (roughly) the 56,000th most popular website in the world and so I assume that they get at least 2000 unique visitors per day. So, I wondered, how can ‘tatoos’ (not my spelling), ‘utube’ (again, not my spelling) ‘naked rugby’ and ‘naked rugby players’ possibly be among the most popular searches? Surely the blog-reading public aren’t collectively stupid enough to misspell tattoo or youtube that many times? And I can totally understand ‘paris hilton nude’ being in there but ‘naked rugby’?! Fuck. I didn’t even know it was a sport.

Being curious and sly (and extremely bored) I then wondered what it would take to rig the popular searches to include ‘Shitetalker’ in the listing. One or two searches ought to do it, I thought. So I tried, but no luck. I tried it a few more times… still nothing. I’ve since concluded that the script must have an IP tracker built-in to prevent some asshole like me from rigging the links to get more visitors. Smartarses, eh?

The anal and stubborn side of me refuses to let a crappy little script win on this one, but unfortunately, I can’t do it alone:

You can Click Here to help me get to the bottom of this mystery,

or you can Click Here if you would rather not.

And before you say it, yes I do realise that this post is going to appear on Irishblogs.ie and yes I can probably get de-listed for trying this shit. That’s why I’m posting it in the middle of the night.

Two can play the Smartarse game

*wink*