Crazy things that people put into site-search

[londrum]

I've got my own site-search script, and i've just been looking through the logs to see the kinds of things that people search for. And there are some really dopey terms in there. I was just wondering if anyone has got something similar on their site, and seen some equally crazy search-terms that people have entered into the search box.

one of my users today entered --
Where on your site can i find information about widgets?

i changed the word widgets, but the rest is identical. he must think that my site has got some amazing AI or something, for it to answer a straight question like that

[lucy24]

Criminy, you should see my logs. They're all like that. (Moderators please note that I'm picking out the ones that are not answered by the page the person landed on!)

:: shuffling papers ::

what was that game on the old mac computers that you were a bug (I dunno, but it isn't one of mine!)
what does obscure font mean
how many lives got a cat (this has come up several times with similar wording)
what is a computer font (IANMTU)
need to wright out fonts [sic]
the change to a different font was not done because the chosen font and the font encodings (to which I can only reply: Huh?)
(with quotation marks as shown in logs) "My hovercraft.." Pink: "... is filled with eels!" (evidently google.au includes a feature not present in the American version)
my name is {name} but i don't know what it maens (sic spelling; query comes from Jamaica, making it highly unlikely that my Canada-oriented site containing the blocked word will answer his question)
i have fonts others don t how can they read

Answer to last: Wake up! You seem to have misplaced the years since 1999. (OK, I cheated. That one leads to a page that really does answer the question, assuming the asker is literate enough to read the whole thing.)

Oh, and I've had lots of people-- I devoutly hope they are all younger than my son-- asking how to duct-tape a friend. Hey, with friends like that...

[Essex_boy]

I keep finding the letter 'K' on the internal search engine, whys that ?

[youfoundjake]

I think the letter K may be there because it's next to the return key on an android phone. ?

[lucy24]

When I read the initial post it didn't register that you were talking about site-internal searches. If I had one of those, it would be a steady stream of "Are you ever going to get to the hovercraft?" or possibly "Where's the part about galvanised iron?" all generically answered with "foo has left the building because I decided the word 'bar' worked better".

Incidentally-- you knew I'd have to check this-- if you search for "k" alone in g###, the #1 hit is the Boltzmann constant. I call that handsome ;)

Man, wouldn't you like to rank #1 for a one-letter search?

[Essex_boy]

foundjake, thanks ! Its been driving me mad