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Question for those of you from the UK
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:10 pm
by Omphalos
Did some newspaper just run an article on a book called "Omphalos," or something? Starting last week my website started getting absolutely bombed by UK internet sites where the users were searching for something like "author of Omphalos," or "book Omphalos author" or something else similar to those. The hits are from England, Wales and Scotland, and there are like 500% more than usual, and they are only slowly dying down. Its a real head scratcher for me, so I wanted to ask if anyone has any insight. Oh, and sorry if this is in the wrong topic. I honestly don't think Ive ever started anything here before.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:37 am
by inhuien
I would have certainly brought it to your attention had I seen such a thing. Give me a wee while and I'll have a looksee.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:50 am
by inhuien
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:09 am
by Omphalos
Thank you. I dont think either one of those would have done it. Almost all of the searches were for an "author." Hmmmm.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:32 pm
by Liege-Killer
Could it have had anything to do with
this author by any chance?
It's a long shot, I know.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:06 pm
by Omphalos
Liege-Killer wrote:Could it have had anything to do with
this author by any chance?
It's a long shot, I know.
Probably not. A bunch of the search terms are along the lines of "Omphalos novel." That looks like a treatise. Anyway, after the hits started I looked around for books called Omphalos. That was the least wacky of the bunch.
I was thinking it was a newspaper article or a documentary or something because the hits came from all over the country. If they had come from one town, I would have said that it was some class or something where that is required reading. It did start after all right after classes resumed. But it was so sudden I was taken aback.
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:53 am
by SpacemanSpiff
I did a search on Fantastic Fiction and all I got was
Pawn of Omphalos writen in 1979 by E C Tubb.
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:05 am
by Omphalos
SpacemanSpiff wrote:I did a search on Fantastic Fiction and all I got was
Pawn of Omphalos writen in 1979 by E C Tubb.
Have you ever read any Tubb, Spiff? I never have but was thinking of getting some stuff.
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:07 am
by Crysknife
I know, I know!
It was on Richard Dawkin's site.(England!) I read that article a little while back and remembered that comment because of your name.
Here's the link:
http://www.richarddawkins.net/article,3 ... hool,Wired
It's in comment 239935 under the article.
Liege-killer had it right.
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:35 am
by Omphalos
Thanks everyone, for your help. If that is it, its pretty awesome how one little comment like that would start a landslide of web searches, huh?
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:52 pm
by Crysknife
Omphalos wrote:Thanks everyone, for your help. If that is it, its pretty awesome how one little comment like that would start a landslide of web searches, huh?
Well, I guess we can't be sure that was it, but that site gets a TON of traffic. When I read it, I was going to look it up as well. People over there like to know about other books that have been written on the subject of religion. I don't doubt that it was the reason for all the search results.