Comments on: A Second Little Poll

By: Didier Stevens

Didier Stevens — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:26:57 +0000

You’ve got it, “download virus”, “virus download”, “download a virus”, … All these search terms rank high in my stats.

My Adwords post is linked to by a lot of web sites, so it ranks high in search results. And people looking for a virus are also directed to myse blog…

By: DF

DF — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:10:33 +0000

Ok, so this is my last one. Download. I am feel kind of stupid for not thinking of it earlier.

By: Didier Stevens

Didier Stevens — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:57:15 +0000

You’re very close. “get a virus” is a popular search term, but another verb is much more popular.

By: DF

DF — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:48:22 +0000

My last guess. Is it “get”? Again a search on “virus get” returned your site as the first result and “infected virus” was I think the fourth result. I am a little surprised it wasn’t “PC”.

By: DF

DF — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:43:02 +0000

That should have been “PC virus-free” but they both return your site as the 1st result.

By: Didier Stevens

Didier Stevens — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:42:44 +0000

Virus is one of the words in the search term, but what is the second word?

By: DF

DF — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:35:15 +0000

I am going to guess that it is one (or two) of the words in the sentence “Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!” Why, well because when googling your name that is the first result returned. Other evidence is it is listed in your top post section. As for a guess on the specific word(s) I’d say “PC virus free”, a link to your site was the 1st one returned when searching on that term (without using quotes in the search). But I didn’t explore every possible combination.

By: Didier Stevens

Didier Stevens — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:35:11 +0000

It’s related to that, but what search terms?

By: iamnowonmai

iamnowonmai — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:52:49 +0000

Probable your little Google Adwords thing from a few months back!

By: Didier Stevens

Didier Stevens — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:06:18 +0000

That’s true, my name also ranks high in the search term list, but certainly not as high as the ones I want you to guess.

A little hint: I ask this second question because the answer is in sharp contrast with the first question.