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Over at The Universe of Discourse, MjD has been doing a monthly wrapup of search terms that people have been using to find content on his site. I thought I’d inaugurate that feature here, and do it on a monthly basis. I’m doing it early this month because the next four weeks are going to be an unremitting hell as I attempt to finish grad school. Here goes:

• “Lauren Classification” — this was a relatively frequent search term this month. The Lauren Classification is a method for classifying tumors. I have a blog post about classification that my friend Lauren commented on, so this is an entirely useless search result.
• “verbs” and “vodka” — these were pretty common searches, and I can’t figure out what they were looking for on my site with the possibility that
• “modal auxiliary” and “modal verbs” are other popular search term that describes verb helpers (like ‘must,’ ‘should,’ ‘may,’ etc….) and they may have looked at a blog entry I made describing them in John Wilkin’s constructed language.
• “sample stemmers” — I do actually have sample stemmer implementations on my website, so it was presumably a happy day for someone.
• “/tmp/spamd_full.sock” — I actually have an article about card tricks and development metholodology that has the answer to the usual problem contained within, so assuming they looked through my purple prose, they found what they were looking for.
• “pop culture management” — possibly a good idea, but nothing will help you with that here.
• “aboutness” and “pre-coordinate” remain things that people come here a lot for. For a while, my post about “pre-coordinate” vs. “post-coordinate” was the #1-#3 entry on google on the topic, beating out more definitive answers like the spec and various professional societies in my field.

There were a bunch of other search results, but most of them were either to fiction that I’ve written (and which is contained elsewhere on this site) or they were fairly quotidian queries that people more or less got the answers they wanted for.