View from the top

Recently I became aware of a plateau achieved by this little blog of mine.

We all know of the primacy of Google and the importance placed on that site's page rank. As a small to medium sized blog, my page rank is modest at best, but I nonetheless like to compare myself to other sites. I like it best when I can compare myself favorably to other, larger sites.

For example, Correct My Spelling is the second most popular site to ever misspell Nouveau Riche [The me-preferred neuvo riche being both more economical and less vowel-intensive].

And, when searching [perhaps only in Belgium] for commentary on the truism 'without trust there can be no love'--a sentiment I, perhaps naively, thought I'd actually made up--CMS ranks a lackluster 4th, but that is exactly one ahead of theWB.com message boards. I consider this a major coup because who knows more about trust and love than preteen hicks and disillusioned widowers?

But recently, CMS has catapulted to the top of some rather disturbing lists. Tawdry lists is perhaps the sentiment I'm looking for; lists that I wouldn't consider to be representative of what Correct My Spelling has sought to achieve in this global idea exchange.

CMS is now number one with a bullet in each of the following Google Search Strings:

preteen genitalia [Mike discovered this one. He also lives near an Elementary School]

going condomless blogs -gay

Even though I didn't seek out this demographic of pedophiles and homophobes who go in for risky sex, I may now change focus. It's never really been about what I say as much as how many people read it.