Didier Stevens

Thursday 10 July 2008

A Second Little Poll

Filed under: Poll — Didier Stevens @ 6:51

The answer to the question I asked yesterday is: SafeBoot.zip. Excellent deduction work Matthew.

And now a second question: what are the most popular search term variations (two or more words) that land people on my blog https://blog.DidierStevens.com (according to WordPress.com)?

Post a comment with your answer.

13 Comments »

  1. spidermonkey || spidermonkey download

    Comment by gth — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 9:26

  2. No, spidermonkey doesn’t even appear in the stats.

    Comment by Didier Stevens — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 9:51

  3. just a guess going by my own experience with search term referrals, but would it happen to be your name?

    Comment by kurt wismer — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 13:56

  4. 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.

    Comment by Didier Stevens — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 14:06

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

    Comment by iamnowonmai — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 15:52

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

    Comment by Didier Stevens — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 18:35

  7. 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.

    Comment by DF — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 18:35

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

    Comment by Didier Stevens — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 18:42

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

    Comment by DF — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 18:43

  10. 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”.

    Comment by DF — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 18:48

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

    Comment by Didier Stevens — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 18:57

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

    Comment by DF — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 20:10

  13. 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…

    Comment by Didier Stevens — Thursday 10 July 2008 @ 20:26


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