Feedjit live is a widget designed for blogs such as this one, it allows the user to see the how visitors have come to find their blog or website. It usually reads like Miami Florida, arrived on Mindofmine.co.uk by searching for.....
The individual tags I use on my individual blog posts will usually dictate which post the guest will arrive at. Sometimes these searches will normally be innocent, run of the mill type stuff. Search by name for me or common posts etc.
But then there are those searches which make me wonder and those which make me think the world is really fucked up. Those which are not so innocent. Which brings me to the title of this blog. But before we get there, lets go through some of the more mundane but still interesting Google searches which brought internet users to Mind Of Mine.
Dogging
In the Summer of 2010, my friends and I decided to go for a walk in the Phoenix Park in Dublin. You can read the full post here. The park is one of the largest national parks in Europe and is also a massive cruising area for Gay men. It was around 4am and we spent hours walking around in the dark, it was creepy and adding to the fun was all the men driving around looking for sex, usually slowing down when they saw us.
Ever since the post went live, its been fun to read some of the search results. Usually along the lines of 'Where to go dogging in the Phoenix Park/Phoenix Arizona, 'Where can you find rent boys in the Phoenix Park/Phoenix Arizona', 'How much do rent boys charge in Phoenix?'.
I imagine that if cruisers/doggers actually read the full post that they might be put off from actually using the park to get their rocks off, worried that they might run into a group of people like us, getting our rocks off in a very different way than they would be expecting.
Sex On A Ferry
It was back in 2009 and I was travelling back to Dublin to take part in my Brothers wedding, whilst on the ferry crossing from Wales to Dublin, I had a sexual encounter with a member of staff. The full post can be read here.
It's not everyday that someone manages to have gay sex on a ferry crossing, well I thought so at least. But I was surprised at just how many internet searches on the subject there would be. Searches like 'I want to have sex on a boat', 'blow job ferry' 'getting fucked on a boat','gay cruises', 'sex on the Stenaline' etc.
I wonder if the member of staff had sex with a lot of travelers and who ever had read it had also 'tapped that'. For a period, it was one of my most searched for posts.
That was until.....
Brother on Brother Gay Sex
Regular readers of this blog will know that my big Brother Karl is also gay. I wrote a post about our relationship, the friendship we share and how the both of us being gay has brought us closer. I never could have imagined some of the search results that post and it's tags would generate. You can read that post here.
Some of the searches would be innocent and normal enough. 'Coming out to my big brother', 'My big Brother is gay', 'I think my Brother might be gay'. I assume these, would be from people looking to the internet for advice or connect with people in similar situations.
But then again, some are just plain fucked up. Incest does happen, I am not naive. Elijah and Milo Peters a living example of that. But I am always shocked when I see search results like 'I want to fuck my Brother', 'I had sex with my little Brother', 'I got fucked by my Brother and his friends', 'Brother on Brother gay sex'. It's the one time, I hope the reader is disappointed when they make a search like this and find my perfectly innocent post about the friendship I share with my brother.
There are also those searches which give me a chill down my spine, for a completely different reason. For instance, when I have made a job application and a result pops up from the town or area where I the employer is or the interview has taken place and the search contains my full name, my email address, my age or the first line of my home address. My blog hardly paints the best picture of me, the drugs, the countless jobs, the drinking, the packing up and leaving the country at the drop of a hat.
There have also been 'Ian Brooks is a fucking liar', 'Ian Brooks is a junkie scumbag' and 'Ian Brooks is fugly slut'.
I would like to hear from other Feedjit users who have found interesting or strange search results.
