Hong’s Cave

Maybe it’s just my vanity thing, but I like to check the web access logs to my site everyday. I’ve written several perl scripts to analyze the logs to see who’s visiting and what they are looking at and where they are coming from.

I’ve noticed that these days most of the referred links are from search engines (Google being the most frequently used, not surprisingly). So, I added a tool to analyze what kind of query strings were used to get to my pages.

As expected, the most frequent words are “korea” and “korean” because I do maintain a page that lists korea-related websites that I deem interesting and used to manage a korean pop music site that I decided to fold.

However, there are a few things that catch my eyes often. I’ve looked at the logs for the past 7 days.

Some are just unrelated.

• Korean organized gang [none of my pages had anything to do with "gang", although it might have appeared in one of the romanticized Korean names]
• bird phobia [people should learn to use double quotation marks]
• cave people [well, my site's title has "cave" in it.]
• natsun [I think someone was looking for a German brand or company]

Some query phrases are unexpected.

• d.p.r of korea university [I do have a list of some North Korea-releated sites, but surprised that people actually do search for them]
• animated pictures [I have a few animated GIFs of myself waving in the main page]
• korean pop start “as one” [I think it's a Korean idol singing group or something]
• sarah kang / sudong chung / Eugene Jhong / jung-min ha / inverito keeyong / Eun-Jin Im [friends of mine, but who wants to know?]
• ryokan hiraiwa / ‘Yuhara ryokan’ [someone is planning to visit Kyoto.]

Just amusing.

• I haven’t been myself these days according to friends [well, hope you feel better.]
• twath [is there such a word?]
• hong’s cave [someone remembers my site's title!]
• flirting korean [hmm... does someone have a crush on a Korean?]
• pretty korean cartoons [okay...]

Another interesting thing is that some search engines update their database pretty quickly. I think Google and FAST have crawled most of the updated TWAtH pages. Especially, the Googlebots seem to visit the site almost everyday.