Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Not a nude beach

I have this amazing resource called Site Meter for tracking everybody who visits my blog. It lets me know where people are accessing my site from and what pages have links to my site that those people are clicking on to access my site. A lot of them say "unknown" for the referral because all y'all have me in your Favorites, or someting. Except Alyssa. Hers always say http://accidentalpurposity.blogspot.com/.

It also shows me the crazy things that people have typed into search engines to arrive at my blog. For instance, this morning someone from British Columbia did a Google image search for "church" (admittedly not crazy, but recent), clicked on the following photo that I posted from
Greece last April, and wound up in my blog archives.

Church at Tourkomnima Beach

But I've noticed a trend in the past few weeks of people arriving at my site after doing image searches for "nude beach." I have no images of nude beaches on my blog, so I'm sure that these visitors are sorely disappointed.

The image that they've been clicking on is the following one, which I posted from
Dubrovnik. Right before the image were the words, "The nude beach was uninhabited."

Lokrum beach

But it's not the nude beach! Somehow Google got the idea from the proximity of my words that this is a picture of Lokrum's nude beach. But it's an entirely different beach on the island (clothing required!) which I posted because it was prettier.

Okay. In summary:

This is not a nude beach:
18i-LokrumBeach

This is a nude beach:
NudeBeach

Clear?

3 comments:

Sotosoroto said...

It's certainly nude of vegetation and soil!

Alyssa said...

I don't understand people who can go to a nude beach. Doesn't sand get.. well, places that sand should not be?

Sotosoroto said...

Sand gets everywhere even with a swimsuit, if you go in the water. ...And this "beach" was just slabs of rock. It didn't look comfortable with or without clothes.