I had a neat referrer yesterday to the Rice Tea site. For those who don’t know, referrers are the address that a web browser was surfing on before they linked to your site. I keep track of these things for statistical purposes.
This was the referrer that stood out yesterday:
http://www.google.com.kw/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=torrent+Rice+Tea+Julien+McArdle&meta=&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
In other words, someone tried to find a torrent of the book. Even though I distribute it for free on my site.
It could be that the visitor wanted to save me some bandwidth by getting the torrent instead. However, what’s much more likely is that the guy saw the book listed on the Wikipedia entry for Hacker, and wanted to grab a pirated copy – not realizing I’m already giving it away for free.
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2 responses to “Referrer of the Day”
Isn’t it just amazing, the sheer lack of intelligence in the mass majority of the people in this world?
This is also why I like viewing failblog. I just think it’s just so funny.
That’s quite interesting…”The joy’s of giving” people just aren’t used to this. Giving is a revolutionary counter-commercial idea.