people are weird

Hot in Herre Sports Illustrated used to have a little column called “This Week’s Sign That the Apocalypse Is Upon Us.” Documenting sports atrocities and injustices, it was by far my favorite feature of SI. “People are weird” is sort of the equivalent here. Normally, it highlights Google searches that lead here. Judging by their […]

Doodled by J3ff T. I’ve concluded that the Internet makes one stupid. Metal forums make my brain spring leaks. Metal news sites assault my intelligence. Metal reviews are seemingly written by monkeys with typewriters and hammers. Is spell-checking or refraining from personal attacks so difficult? And metal’s not the worst culprit. Political blogs – ugh. […]

by Cosmo Lee Mighty though Google’s search algorithm may be, its workings are quite mysterious. When I look at search queries leading to Invisible Oranges, I can usually figure out how they got here. Typically they have something to do with either “metal” or “vagina” (explained here). Occasionally, though, I get some real head-scratchers; below […]

While the site wrestles with audio-related server issues, let’s talk about metal. One of the best aspects of doing this site is seeing the incoming Google searches. I am always amused at how people type complete sentences into Google instead of Boolean searches. These queries are little windows into people’s ids. After all, searching is […]

What’s not to like? When I reviewed Graf Orlock last year, I described the “facehugger” as “the baby lifeform in Aliens that’s basically a combination of vagina and spider crab.” Little did I know that this sentence would unleash a deluge of Google Image search queries, continuing to this day, that included every possible combination […]

Is he evil? I would like to think that readers of Invisible Oranges come here for its actual content. However, a depressingly high proportion of search engine queries for this site are for (1) illegal album downloads (especially for the hardcore band Liferuiner), (2) female-fronted metal, and (3) Christian metal. At least there have been […]