The WordPress interface gives me a view of all the searches which caused folks to land on this little piece of the rock since I closed down the old Mister Anchovy’s on Blogger and started 27th Street here on WordPress. I’ve pasted a picture of the top searches below.

Alarming is the fact that das boot is not only the top search term, but there have been close to three times more views from that search terms than the second  one. I’m happy that 27th street is the second top search terms, since that’s an indication that people are coming here because they’re looking for the place. Of course that’s followed by another version of the das boot search. Sigh.

I made one post about Das Boot. That’s it. I finally saw the film and I wrote just a little bit about it. It seems it has quite a following. It’s amusing that searches for that film lead to 27th Street. It tells me that surfers are digging deep into search results in their quest to find out more and more arcane details about the movie. I tried googling Das Boot, and even after looking at several pages of results, I failed to find this island in the sun. Yes friends. There are Das Boot freaks out there.

93 times, people found this place while looking for Columbo. I’m sure I only made one post about Columbo. Perhaps I mentioned it a second time.

The reference to los gauchos or gauchos or uruguay gauchos is to a post I did on Los Gauchos de Roldan, a folk group from Uruguay who play accordion-driven polkas and such in a traditional style, and sung in Spanish. Here’s a sample:

Are there persistent searches that lead people to your blogs?