Oct 29 2004
Swedes
After the link removal at Military.com the bandwidth slurping traffic ceased to go down.
Suddenly the Swedes were coming in! I have no clue where they came from, because I could not find one referral link that could have brought them here, but suddenly I saw only Swedish flags in my statistics.
It was obvious that they were looking for Fahrenheit 9/11, statistics left no doubt here, but something completely out of the ordinary happened..
As you may know most web sites have tracking systems that monitor which pages are popular and in what order they are visited and of course the link used to enter a site.
Since we are listed on top at Google after a search for “amea”, our virtual museum is often mistaken for the Association of Multiethnic Americans or the Association of Machinery and Equipment Appraisers. Usually those people don’t turn around immediately once they know they have clicked the wrong link. They stay a while, they have a look at the Picture of the Day, they send an erotic e-card, they visit an exhibit and finally they return to Google again.
Not the Swedes! Oh no, they came in, saw that what they were looking for was removed, slammed the door and left. These are serious people, if you ask me. Very, very view of them looked around. There were about 8000 of them in four hours time and maybe 20 clicked on the Picture of the Day link. Of those 20 maybe 6 or 7 digged deeper into the site. That is a miracle. We have water burning here!
A while ago we had the invasion of the Animal Lovers, because our address was posted on one of their bestiality forums. They left as sudden as they came, but almost all had a good look around first.
This is different. The Swedes have accomplished what no other nation has accomplished, they came and they left without looking at the pictures. They must be very mature and sexually balanced people, I see no other explanation.
Very friendly too. I just received the following email:
Hi!
Saw that you got too much traffic on the Fahrenheit movie. I would be glad
to host it on my site, http://www.gosse.se/, of course with text
copyright and all that stuff. Mail me and tell me what you think.
regards,
Marten Bjork,
www.gosse.se – Sweden
>>> Now, how is that for a neutral country?