Archive for July 7th, 2012
Another Dirac Delta: Moen Faucet Repair (?!)
Posted by Ed in Administrivia, Oddities on 7-July-2012
Can anyone explain how it is that, all of a sudden, Yahoo! Image Search generates 466 hits for my post on repairing our Moen bathroom sink faucet, a sleepy post in my Long Tail that’s been ticking along at one view per day since last December?
The flash mob was here and gone within the span of an hour:
View spike for Moen faucet post – 2012-04-05
Does Yahoo! Image Search have something like a featured image of the hour? I can’t find anything obvious, but I cannot imagine what else would cause that many views of a single page that lacks buck-naked celebrities, jackass stunts, or hideously embarrassing personal revelations.
Given that all of their “trending image searches” show (typically female) human faces, I doubt that the grubby innards of a faucet would appear in that gallery.
This has happened before from the same source…
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