Site Stats...

[Matt Attallah]

Has anyone ever been to the site stats and looked in the search function? Some funny/weird stuff has been searched for in CD.com.

Go look - it's funny!

http://stats.chiefdelphi.com/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?month=03&year=2004&config=chiefdelphi.com&output=keyphrases

[Yan Wang]

Lol... why is Dave Chapelle searched for so often???

w00t, post 1337

[Ryan F.]

chicawgo ???

I think we've got some dyslexic people here.

--our teams been searched for 2 times :ahh: ...probably both mine...but hey...I can be proud.

[Joshua May]

Chapelle show and engineering sucks, very interesting searches. Funny find here!

[sanddrag]

I've been searched for 4 times. Hrrmm, I wonder who is looking for me?

[Jay H 237]

Have you realized after reading the results there's more searches for Ken Leung (14), Redhead Jokes (14), Erin Rapacki (11), Paul Copioli (9), than JVN (6). See John, your not the most popular one on here. ;) Now when we're done with the "I am JVN" joke we should change our profiles to say "I am Ken Leung" or "I am Redhead Jokes"! :D

[Joe Ross]

Personally, I would guess that Cheryl Miller isn't what people had in mind when they searched for Redhead Jokes.

[Elgin Clock]

So, apparently I have my own division in nationals going by the search, "elgin clock division". Why was I not told about this? jeesh...

[Jay H 237]

Personally, I would guess that Cheryl Miller isn't what people had in mind when they searched for Redhead Jokes.

I thought about that but there weren't any other jokes listed in there. My guess is that it's Cheryl they were looking for. The only other redhead in there was "redhead scholorships". Is this a scholorship that only redheads could apply for?

After reading most of the list I realized how much people misspell stuff. Just goes to show how someone could search for something, not find it, and post a multiple thread.
There are some weird ones in there. Next time I see Elgin I'm going to ask him what "elgin clock division" is. A "cordless drillpress" now there's something unique. There were so many searches for the "Pepsi rover commercial" (and other spellings of it) that Brandon might want to give it it's own section of the forum. :p

[EDIT] Elgin beat me to posting the "elgin clock division". So much for surpising him the next time I saw him. :rolleyes: [EDIT]

[Amanda Morrison]

I think it may be bordering hysterical that someone not only searched for 'karthik kanagasabapathy' but also spelled his name right...

...but apparently the word 'chief' stumps more people than we thought. ;)

[LauraN]

I find it interesting that for April, "the coolest thing in the world" was searched for more often than "making a robot." (I wonder if they found what they were looking for?!) =)

I think it may be bordering hysterical that someone not only searched for 'karthik kanagasabapathy' but also spelled his name right...
LOL!

OK, not that I don't trust you, but I HAD to see that one for myself. And yes I find that pretty hysterical.

I just call him "the guy with the sunglasses" and everyone knows who I'm talking about. Plus that's easier to spell. =)

[JVN]

Am I reading this wrong...

It seems like this list is things people searched in OTHER search engines, which brought them to www.chiefdelphi.com (http://www.chiefdelphi.com).

Which makes waaaaay more sense than this being a list of things searched for on this site.

Brandon?

John

[Ryan F.]

Except for that whole "engineering sucks" thing.

[LauraN]

Am I reading this wrong...

It seems like this list is things people searched in OTHER search engines, which brought them to www.chiefdelphi.com (http://www.chiefdelphi.com).

Which makes waaaaay more sense than this being a list of things searched for on this site.
Ohhh.

Well, on one level that makes SO much more sense (for example, why would you search the CD forums FOR the CD forums?? I couldn't quite figure that one out...haha duh.) but then..."chapelle show" is the second most common referrer? More people end up here after searching for that than do for "chief delphi forums"?

Huh?!

Am I totally missing something here? :confused:

[activemx]

"how to get a prom date" the best one

[Brandon Martus]

Which makes waaaaay more sense than this being a list of things searched for on this site.

Brandon?
Correct. You search for 'X' on google, and end up at chiefdelphi.com, it will show up in this list.

[Cory]

So someone searched for "duct tape bondage" on google and got sent here?

hWhat?

Cory

[Ryan F.]

naked egg drop ideas??

dirty dancing havannah nights??

sad smiley face??........(dosen't that contradict itself)?

picture of a psycho penguin??

sniff caffeine pills??

sticky hands??

perment to own a weapon??

start a rumor??

d2 you dont even know the name of my band??

a good set basketball shot??


Some of my personal favorites....this site must be getting very wierd if this is what we're known for.

[Matt Attallah]

Haha - this is great.

I wonder why people just don't look at the portal and just realise that they aren't going to find some of the weird stuff in CD.com...Hmmm...

[Joe Ross]

I think it may be bordering hysterical that someone not only searched for 'karthik kanagasabapathy' but also spelled his name right...

Well, I decided to duplicate that search, and his white paper was the #1 result. I also found a result on RateMyProfessors.com that says that he is helpful and clear, but very hard and not very hot.

[Ryan M.]

Physics of soccer!?!?! :)

[Yan Wang]

Physics of soccer!?!?! :)

That seems like a very likely search that would bring people to this forum... Patrick Dingle has always posted updates regarding the Cornell Robocup Team on these forums (look in the Televised Robotics forum) and has talked about the robots.

Brandon, how is CD able to know that a person is coming from Google? And what they searched for?

[Brandon Martus]

Brandon, how is CD able to know that a person is coming from Google? And what they searched for?
Go search something on Google. When you are at the results page, check the URL. The terms you searched for are contained in the URL. When you click a link in the results (to chiefdelphi.com for instance), that URL is sent to our server as the 'referrer'. The stats programs we use (webalizer, analog, etc) know all of the popular search engines, and how their referrer URL is composed, and they can pull that info out of the URL and make neat stats from it.

Hope that explains it enough. Let me know if not ..

-Brandon

[Elgin Clock]

Is there any way to see a list of what has been searched for most often internally on CD?

From the Search button on the CD menu bar?

[Brandon Martus]

Those stats aren't kept track of in vBulletin. Recent searches are kept, and we could probably do something interesting with that, but the search history only goes back so far (for performance reasons, I think).

[Ben Lauer]

No, the best one is,
vcu cheerleaders, 3 times

[Karthik]

Well, I decided to duplicate that search, and his white paper was the #1 result. I also found a result on RateMyProfessors.com that says that he is helpful and clear, but very hard and not very hot.
I take offence to this Joe. I just checked it out and the only rating I got on that site said I was hot. I even have a hot pepper next to my name. Hmmph.

Posting wrong information about my team or robot, I'll let that go. But when it comes to my good looks, you've got another thing coming...

;)

[Joe Ross]

I take offence to this Joe. I just checked it out and the only rating I got on that site said I was hot. I even have a hot pepper next to my name. Hmmph.

Posting wrong information about my team or robot, I'll let that go. But when it comes to my good looks, you've got another thing coming...

You are correct. I assumed that Hot was on a 1-5 scale like the others, in which case you go a 1. However, Hot is ranked on a hot or not scale (+1 or -1) and since you have a positive hot score you are hot. Now I need to meet you in person to judge your hotness for myself, since I've learned to never trust the online professor evaluation sites.

:)

[Steve W]

Trust me when I say that the only time Karthik is hot is when you are truthful and tell him the many weaknesses of his robot. Steam rises and the verbal abuse begins as he tries, WITHOUT SUCCESS I MIGHT ADD, to defend poor Simbot Simeon. :eek:

[Karthik]

Trust me when I say that the only time Karthik is hot is when you are truthful and tell him the many weaknesses of his robot. Steam rises and the verbal abuse begins as he tries, WITHOUT SUCCESS I MIGHT ADD, to defend poor Simbot Simeon. :eek:
I don't usually need to defend Simbot Simon, his accomplishments speak for himself. You come check out the trophy case at GM when it's done. It's kind of big... :)

//Steve,

I think neither of us can go more than five messages without making fun of each other, on either this board or the Canadian Regional forum...
//

[jonathan lall]

"Simbot Simian." I never thought of it, but 1114's machine is pretty much the 188 definition of a monkeybot, which I'm pretty sure you're familiar with. That's too good. Also, on the subject of your previous claim, might I suggest you not list your Who Am I image on the forum? Either that or replace it with something you'd expect (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/pics/bin/1052102831carrybot.jpg) from such a wild claim.

[J Flex 188]

who needs regional wars, geographically divided national competitions or even the leafs and the sens? we've got our own inter-province, down a short stretch of highway, no holds barred rivalary of our own going here.
crazy monkeys and their dancing around >_<.

[Joe Ross]

"Simbot Simian." I never thought of it, but 1114's machine is pretty much the 188 definition of a monkeybot, which I'm pretty sure you're familiar with. That's too good.

I read their name as "Simbot Simon", which goes well with "Simbot Sally". I think there's monkey business going on in your head :p

[Karthik]

I read their name as "Simbot Simon", which goes well with "Simbot Sally". I think there's monkey business going on in your head :p
I think Jon was just trying to create a pun out of Steve's earlier typo. "Simbot Simian" is a good name for our initial design, which was a fully capable monkey bot. We gave up on that pretty early on though. I'll upload a white paper at some point.

Simon and Sally are a good pair. Lets see what we come up with next year.

who needs regional wars, geographically divided national competitions or even the leafs and the sens? we've got our own inter-province, down a short stretch of highway, no holds barred rivalary of our own going here.
crazy monkeys and their dancing around >_<.
The Simbotics-Woburn rivalry is a good one. It keeps all of us entertained to say the least. What makes it so special is the deep dark secret that we try and hide from the rest of the world...somewhere down there we actually like each other.

Then again, that might not last if we steal more of your team members...

[Steve W]

If you are to steal more of our team, can I pick who you take?

[shyra1353]

The Simbotics-Woburn rivalry is a good one. It keeps all of us entertained to say the least. What makes it so special is the deep dark secret that we try and hide from the rest of the world...somewhere down there we actually like each other....

i guess the secrets out now ...