A few days ago, I got my first visitor from a search engine. They searched "methylethylaldehyde", clicked on the blog, and then exited almost instantaneously. I got another search engine hit later from the same search term, but the person stuck around for a while. The first hit was a new visitor, the second hit wasn't. Here's my hypothesis: a confused chemistry student searches for a non-existent molecule, comes to my blog looking for answers, and then finds out that the blog title has nothing to do with what he/she searches for. Then later, either a) that person does another Google search and comes back because they want to know why anybody would name a blog after a fictional molecule or b) someone who has been here before decided to Google search the blog. Heck, that might have even been me, but I can't remember.
The more interesting one was getting another instant-leave hit from a Google search, but this time from someone searching for "2 methyl ethyl aldehyde". Not only is that just wrong, but it practically guarantees that a misguided chemistry student was trying to check a molecule name. They were probably trying to name the following structure:
Where ever you are, poor chemistry students, good luck. I feel your pain.
I hope that at least someone thought all of this was at least mildly amusing. No? Okay. Back to crazy stories from my childhood soon.
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