fredag, september 21, 2007

Our mystery reader

I have talked before about the beautiful tool Google Analytics. It is sort of a spyware, allowing you to probe into the netsurfing habits of people visiting your website.

One beauty of the tool is that it tells us where in the world people are accessing our site from. We have the odd visitor from the most remote places in the world, nothing strange in that. But we also have a very faithful visitor from Mountain View, California. At least a few times a week the site is accessed from this pitoresque american small town.

But hold on now. Mountain View California is also where Google Corp have their headquarters - right? And Google owns Blogger, and definetly they own Google Analytics.

So we have a few options: 1) we have a cycling fan in Google Corp, probably an expat Swede who just can't get enough Swedish cycling nostalgia. 2) Google is monitoring our website activity and sell the information to the Department of Homeland Security - "preserving our freedom". They found us searching for "shaved legs" which is also a code word for terrorism. 3) Google automatically visits all webpages on their server for no reason whatsoever.

I really hope its not the last, that seems really boring.

3 kommentarer:

Anonym sa...

Bara vänta... Snart kommer de Svarta Helikoptrarna och kvar står era kvarlämnade cyklar. En ensam lycrabralla vajar stilla i den öde vinden på balkongen. Era grannar kommer att glömma att dom sett er, era tillgångar spärras och ert personnummer kommer att raderas.

Cykelmupp??? Nope, inget jag vet om, aldrigt hört talas om det.

Så går det när man muckar med Departement of Homeland Security.

Jesper Sundewall sa...

Ja, det är det jag är lite rädd för. Samtidigt som det är smickrande att utgöra ett namn på FBI:s tio mest eftersökta är det också lite skrämmande...
#3, Cykelmupparna, are suspected to have had bad shaving influence on a whole generation of young Americans and made them spend their entire student loans on shaving gel, razors and synthetic materials (to be worn close close to the body...)
Reward: 50,000,000 USD
Considered unarmed and completely harmless (but scary as hell)

Stina sa...

ROFLOL - verkligen. Räddade min annars trista dag.