Disturbing Search Requests <searchrequests.weblogs.com> is a "collaborative weblog is dedicated to misleading search requests," that mines the veins of irony found in both site referrer logs and search engine results derived from link-loving bots and engine algorithms that give maximum value to the most highly linked sites. So, DSR continues, "If you write a weblog on a regular basis, chances are you're going to post quotes from other sites, opinions from other people etc. But since weblogs are highly linked to and from, they get indexed very well by search engines. So, even if you only once wrote about your hamster, and on the same day mentioned you were wearing a three piece suit, Google just might list you as No.1 for 'hamster suit'. Now just imagine that you check your referrer logs and you find a query from a search engine, looking for 'hamster suit'. This is where this site kicks in.
For example, Dave Bug of Geeklife <www.geeklife.com> found that "Where are all the nice girls?" was not only a search request in his log files, but brought up The Value of Psychotic Experience <http://deoxy.org/w_value.htm> as a result on Google.
At this writing (November 20), there seems to be agreement, among threads both within and linked to DSR, that Google and Yahoo (which uses the Google engine) sometimes exclude DSR from its findings. So we just typed "Disturbing Search Results" into Google, punched the "I'm feeling lucky" button and went straight to the site. Guess this isn't one of those times.
-- Doc Searls