Expert for 15 minutes

[undyingking]

I was intrigued to note (courtesy of mrsdanvers63) that, according to Google, this LJ is the world-leading authority on the subject of dialect terms for gigantic buzzing beetles, thanks to this entry from last year.

(I can add that I've now also seen stag beetles in flight -- we had two males competing for a female in the garden this summer -- and, as suspected, it's a very impressive sight, preferably viewed from a fair distance.)

Has anyone else noticed Google declaring their journal an expert on any such somewhat random subject?

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of the time Three Years of Hell happened to mention Paris Hilton and Tony reported a short while later that the resulting surge of traffic from Paris Hilton-related searches completely swamped his law-related traffic! (It's on this page. Scroll down to Jan 12th 2004.)

try searching for:

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

god, goddesses and saints of beer

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Fame!

[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

One of my old websites (sadly departed) used to hold the number one spot on Google for the term 'marketing bullshit' which I was rather proud of. On the other hand, I was trying, so I'm not sure it counts for these purposes.

[mrsdanvers63.livejournal.com]

Stag beetles - cockchafers coming down the chimney was bad enough!

(I was looking for "mismador" - which was the West Suffolk term I was introduced to and seems to have some relationship to other dialect names.)

Mismadors

[(Anonymous)]

Many thanks to Mrs Danvers for the only mention on the internet that I can see of Mismador. I too am from Suffolk, West Suffolk, and in my village they were only misadors and certainly not billywitchs. Having long not lived in Suffolk and just found a mismador outside my back door in Wales I was starting to think I had imagined the word. I am much reassured thankyou!