Dateline: Hannibal, Missouri (America's Hometown) October 24, 2007
This reporter has never been very good at following directions or being a team player, and I never win anything, so I decided to just play with the new Gather search features on my own. It really is a pretty cool tool. You can click on "like to lick raw bacon" in your own profile, and up will pop all the other people on Gather that share your taste. Or, you can enter a word in the search text box and then choose "People" and see how many and who pops up with your word in their profile.
Here's some interesting things I found out today.
251 people on Gather mention "shoes" in their profiles. We all know who one of them is, but I'm going to have to investigate the other 250.
3 people use the word "constipation" in their profiles.
"Ugly" pops up 726 times in Gather profiles.
42 Gatherers talk about "toes" when describing themselves.
"Insomnia" got 4,318 whopping hits. ( Hey, you guys sitting there with bags under your eyes at 4 a.m., read my stuff and leave lots of comments. )
577 members of Gather are somehow connected to the "witness protection program."
Surprisingly, the word "enema" is only mentioned twice in Gather profiles.
260 Gatherers mention the word "psychic", but only 15 use the word "psychotic."
"Prison" is talked about in 746 profiles. Do they have the internet in the slammer?
12 Gatherites admitted in one way or another to being "cranky" which I thought showed refreshing honesty. I am often cranky but refuse to admit it.
"Flatulence" was on 5 members' minds when they filled out their profiles while 63 just came out and used the more common word, "fart".
17 Gatherers want others to know that in some way they are "horny," but having "halitosis" is claimed by only 1 member.
The word "ugly" crops up a startling 726 times in Gather profiles, but "creepy" only 38 times.
Try it. See what fun words you can find in Gather profiles.
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I tried to do the Gather Search Challenge tonight. How frustrating. Apparently of the 138 people who signed up on Gather from my decent sized town, there are about 3 that are active! I wish Gather would eliminate accounts if they haven't been used in 6 months or 9 months or some such number. But of course that would make THEIR numbers go down. I think there must be 10 times more inactive members than active.
3/4 of the members....AIIIEEE
Tongue in cheek, I put in "Not sure" under Sexual orientation and when I clicked it to see how many other Gatherites wrote the same thing, I found out there is a huge bunch, 271 confused (?) people like me!!! LOL.
I have to go find the other shoe people, now.
One thing that surprised me is that the article search seems to be better. I need to test it a little more but it looks like it now considers article content.
BTW, I'm going to add witness protection. That's a good one.
"How 'bout three-legged cats? Can I get some love?"
"Everybody likes me."
I like all cats, as long as they are not in my territory. I am connected only to cats and Katz.
Using the search, I noticed that I am the only one with the same religious affiliation as me. I am also the only member who lists "chasing my tail" as an interest and "Pounce" as one of their favorite foods.
I just wanted to stop by and say "Good morning, Vicky, hope you have a wonderful day!"
3 mention jockstrap
12 mention snot
This is just tmi!
Too much time on your hands these days, Vicky?
I'd like to take some time to describe a related and curious thing.
I've been using wordpress. One of the things one gets there is a list of the search terms that have been used to find one's site.
The most used term for finding me is "panties".
I think that's because I once mentioned that I don't wear panties to work. That's because I'm a pretty much straight man.
(Don't tell that to David Rochester though. He'd be crushed).