Choose your words carefully…

…or they may come back to haunt you. This is even more true in the Internet age.

Lately, on the basis of a very unscientific sampling, the most popular search engine terms people use to get to this blog are “why is carrot good for u”, “carrot is good for”, “what is carrot good for”, and variants thereof. Presumably, they’re after information about the health benefits of said root vegetable, not about the search engine Carrot. While writing my original Carrot entry, I was trying to come up with a catchy, witty header. Not sure about the wittiness now, but I guess I succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.

Out of curiosity, I searched “carrot is good for you” in Google. Sure enough, my blog appears second in the results. Google’s friendly description for my post clearly reads “Carrot is an open source clustering search engine…” [etc.]. Does not sound like anything edible where I come from. Why is it, then, that people click on the link to my blog? They don’t even look at what they’re clicking? I am genuinely baffled.