Referrer Log Jam

In our site meter, there's a set of data called the "Referrer Log" and that means where your users came from right before they came to your blog.

In the old days, a lot of the referrer traffic was from other bloggers and friends. These days, there is massive referrer traffic from search engines.

Here's a sample of today's referrer log traffic:

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http://search.yahoo.com/search...LQVW6Ob.Qzn07NLXlcgAABAA%40%40
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http://search.msn.com/results....srch_type=0&first=11&FORM=PERE
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http://www.google.com/search?q...rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
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http://sidesearch.lycos.com/re...as%20next%20top%20model%202006
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http://search.yahoo.com/search/msie?p=stag films&ei=UTF-8
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http://www.google.com/search?s...A:2006-04,SUNA:en&q=Alpha Male

Yep, you have Yahoo, MSN Search, Google, Lycos, etc. I don't think we figured ten years after the early search engines were wowing us (Alta Vista, Lycos, Yahoo), we're now into a search-all-the-time mode. And the search experts say this is just the beginning of search!