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

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

hWhat?

Cory

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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.

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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...

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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.

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Physics of soccer!?!?! :)

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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?

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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

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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?

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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).

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

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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...

;)

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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.

:)

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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:

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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...
//