Lessons I am too dumb to learn despite repeate scarring...

Flickr has a stats page which lists how many times each image was viewed, and where that image was linked from, if available. This is moderately useful as it explains why a random picture of a boat in the Oakland estuary is currently one my top 10 most viewed (the image was linked to in a yacht enthusiast's forum), but it also is a bit disturbing at times when an image is the result of a google image search: I am not sure I am comfortable with the number of searches done for "home-made fetus" (it is cardboard_dream's fault that I have images that match that search).

On the other hand, I have also learned new things while backtracking sudden spikes in certain search terms. For example, one week I suddenly got hits from people image searching "ninja slugs" as a result of this news story about new species discovered in Borneo.. Even so, there are somethings I should know better than to search even if it does turn up a perfectly benign image. Today someone did a Yahoo image search for "ninja midgets" of which one of my image is the second result. My mistake was in seeing if Google would have returned my image to this search too.

The answer is no it does not, the "ninja" keyword somehow does not filter all of the breast images with "smuggling midgets" descriptors, and if there is a google keyword that returns more tasteless or offensive imagery than "midget" I don't want to know what it is.