"Gorean" searches in May 2006

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On Thursday 18th and Friday 19th May most of the national newspapers in the UK picked up a local story about a man claiming to be running a "Kaotian" variant of Gor, who had some unwelcome attention from the police (but nothing for them to bring charges about.) As a result, I've seen a dramatic increase in the number of visits to my websites from people searching with Google etc for "Goreans", as shown in this graph.

The day of the month goes along the bottom, from Wednesday 17th of May to midnight at the end of Monday 22nd May UK time; and the number of hits per hour is shown in blue for IC and red for TSR.

IC has almost got back to the normal situation before the stories of the 18th, but TSR is still getting more hits than normal for these kinds of searches.

(My weblog post has a longer discussion of all this, and links to the newspaper stories.)

Last modified 23 May 06, 2:18 AM by Tanos