Bizarre search terms on MSN - and BBCi

Martin Belam
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Published 5 May, 2003
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MSN have issued a report on bizarre search terms that are only used once or twice, according to this BBC News story. The MSN hotlist rates their most popular searches - I note that they add the caveat "excludes prurient content" to their top 20 list, which implies that there would be some in the top 20 if they didn't exclude it. No surprise there.

However none of them top the search on BBCi which grabbed my attention in the logs today -

"why are there 46 fucking pages for a made up fucking question?"

Well, we aim to please.

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I'm a London-based internet consultant and writer, with 8 years experience in product management, information architecture, and user experience design for global brands like Sony, Vodafone, The Guardian and the BBC. I specialise in advising on search, widgets, RSS, online news publishing and bulk email delivery.
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