I keep telling and telling you that this site has very high ratings on google and the world is watching us, but nobody seems to listen to me. (So what else is new?) So I decided to look up a whole bunch of Iranian topics and their google ratings yesterday while my cyber-buddies were busy chatting about gay marriage..
I only took ratings that were on the first page of google. But many of the first pages of google had only six hits and I never went to page 2, not once. And also a couple of the top hits were usually wikipedia. And you can’t count them because that’s where BEGINNERS go when they want a general idea of the topic. Then they start doing SERIOUS research and that’s where we come in. So here are our hits on the first page of google, but bear in mind that the ratings seem to change every few minutes, so don’t hold me accountable for exactitude.
Ahmadinejad Tehran gays 1
Laleh Sadigh 1 female car racer
Iranian sex 1 I can’t help it, it’s not my fault. It’s about sex change operations
Iranian poetry 1,2 I’m not kidding, I didn’t make it up
Velayate faghi 1, 2 one of my personal favorites. Khomeini’s book on Islamicist totalitarianism
(Actually, I just realized #1 and 2 are both mine, on two different blogs. One is Natalia’s and one is mine and both are current! This is so exciting!)
SCE Canpaign 1,2 Stop Child Executions
IRI apologist 1, 2
IRI stooge 1,2 (disclaimer)
Persian Farsi debate 1, 2 a topic very near and dear to my heart
Persepolis Maryam Satrapi 2 It is Kadivar (of course)
Shamloo 2 I swear I didn’t make this up either
Iranian film 2 I can’t believe I’m in this just because of that stupid article I wrote four years ago, so are Bruce, Nazi, and Kadivar (of course)
Freddy Mercury Persian 3 I learned he was not Persian, he was Parsi
Tarof Iran 3
Shirin Neshat 4 foremost Iranian artist in the U.S. I
know, I was surprised too.
Dick Davis, Shahnameh 4 best English translation
Sadeq Hedayat Blind Owl 4 This was also a big surprise.
Iranian American intermarriage 4
Persian pornography 4 A landmark work of journalism by Jahanshah Javid :o)
Iran Contemporary Art 5 well, who would’ve thought?
Iranian monarchist idiot 5,6 (disclaimer)
Mossadegh 6 I swear I’m not lying
Shapour Bakhtiar 6
Kiosk band 6 A kiosk is also a stall such as for selling newspapers, so actually this is a VERY high rating.
Farah Diba Pahlavi 7 interview, sure to attract the curious
Makhmalbaf 7
Kiarostami 7
Ebadi Nobel Prize 7
Persian porn 8 it’s in Anyway, very racey
Googoosh 8
Iran 9 I swear to God it’s true
Iranian cartoons 9
Iranian women sexy 9
Ahmadinejad idiot 9 (disclaimer)
Persian cooking 10
Forough Farrokhzad 10
Iranian gardening 11
So then I went to today’s homepage to get some more hits to look up but I noticed there were so many works of fiction written by contributors that I decided’ to also go to page 2. I never even opened the articles. Here is what I found:
Amoosabzi foroosh 1 It is a song. The hit is on the
homepage from today’s quiz which I think I stand a chance of winning even though I hardly understand a word of it..I googled the lyrics
Azadeh Moghsoodi 3 violinist, documentary, sure to be a popular google hit
Association for Iranian-American Writers 6 The hit is from today;s homepage, there are two of them. One is by jj and you can see him smiling, the other one, I don’t know the guy who did it, maybe you do
Abjeez Band 7
Strangely, they all begin with “A”.
Why did I do this? Damned if I know. And the spacing was murder..Jumped around like Mexican jumping beans. It must be for love, and well, everybody here knows I have a screw loose anyway. But you get the general idea. :Let’s behave ourselves. The world is watching us. 😀
