We have been using a customized search function through Google so that
visitors can search the entire ConcordMA.com website. Sometimes the
terms that are searched for make a whole lot of sense, and other times, they simply boggle the mind and make us wonder how on earth these folks ended up on this website in the first place!Last month, the most popular request was for "Thoreau and The Flannery's (sic)" -- Michael Flannery being described in Frank Sanborn's Life of Henry David Thoreau as "The other was Michael Flannery, industrious Irishman from Kerry, who would honestly saw [cordwood] for me, and do any other work I needed; and whom I continued to employ for twenty years...." Flannery also at some time borrowed money from someone in the Thoreau family. Anyone doing research on this topic might understandably come to the ConcordMA.com website, though we haven't any information to offer on that particular subject. The only thing mysterious about this is that it was the most searched-for term on our site!
Other easy-to-understand terms are locations like Walden Pond and Lexington Road, Barrett, Hayward, parade, certain living citizens' names, and someone looking for a map of historic Concord. Even "eye disease in the nineteenth century" makes sense, though why us doesn't.
Others, we had to search for ourselves to try to understand, though we still don't know how the searchers ended up at ConcordMA.com. This includes several requests for "concord blue gas pvt,, mumbai" -- which can be somewhat explained by going to http://www.the-bluetower.com/, a company in India, which describes itself thusly:
We are a waste management consultant specialized in implementing turn-key waste to energy solutions. Concord Blue Energy Inc. is the project management and manufacturing firm for the installation of the environmentally friendly and economically sustainable Blue Tower. The Blue Tower is a revolutionary waste to energy gasification system which handles the disposal of multi-feedstock such as municipal solid waste and sewage sludge.We don't mind anyone searching for these things, but it does pique our curiosity which can only sometimes be satisfied.
