My monthly analysis and commentary on how people made their way to Familygreenberg.com:

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The Categories

Category	February Count	January Count
Technology	220	221
Billy Joel	181	110
Celebrity Look Alikes	58	38
DSL	39	52
Overrated Films	26	10
Politics	21	16
Family	20	11
Accent	17	8
Adult/Porn-Related	15	19
Cal/Stanford	13	19
Television	11	0
Concerts	11	7
Penn	11	15
The Simpsons	10	11
The "I Should be Sleeping" Song	10	4
Disney	9	5
TicTacs	4	1
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree	3	21
Hava Nagila	2	12

Queries were up slightly this month (733 vs. 662). Billy Joel, who fell back into the #2 slot last month, made a surge to 180 (up 65%), but did not overtake Technology related queries, which held remarkably steady at 220. This month also saw the resurgence of some favorites - Celebrity Look Alikes up 53% to 58, Overrated Films up 160% to 26, Politics up 31% to 21, queries about my family up 82% to 20, and queries about speech accents up 113% to 17. There were also a new category - 11 queries about television and TV personalities (owing, I think, to the writer's strike and the new seasons of several reality shows that I've blogged about).

The Referring Sites

Referral site of the month awards go to jeffporten.com and jasonbennion.com, who were responsible for 32 and 13 pageviews each. Also, I've apparently been linked to by facebook (more specifically, UPenn's Facebook), which provided 14 pageviews, although I'm not a member so I'm not really sure what the link is for/about.

The Keywords

All told, 733 queries resulted in hits to Familygreenberg.com in February (71 more than were used in January). Here are some of the more entertaining samples:

We start with Billy Joel. Although he came in #2, his queries are the most entertaining this month (leave it to the Rock Star to have entertaining web queries...):

Query	Rank / # of Results	Comments
all my life billy joel traduzione	>500 / 2,470	When I first read this, given Joel's recent rehab history, I assumed "traduzione" was a prescription drug. As it turns out, it means "translation" in Italian. So this is just an Italian Google user who wants to see Joel's lyrics in Italian.
billy joel at madison square garden for farewell performance	3 / 39,900	Given his current tour schedule, the rumors of his "farewell performance" seem to be greatly exaggerated
billy joel live in hartford disc 3	10 / 97,900	Why do I get the feeling that "Live in Harvard" is not a (professionally released) CD?
"billy joel" "randy jackson"	78 / 113,000	Can we infer from this query the (Google-generated) rumor that Joel is appearing on American Idol again this year?
bruce springsteen, hearing loss	>500 / 140,000	OK, it's not Billy Joel, but it's close: does this mean we can start calling Bruce the "Boss with Hearing Loss?"

Next, we move on to some interesting queries about me or my family:

Query	Rank / # of Results	Comments
brian greenberg date	227 / 872,000	I'm flattered, really, but I'm married.
bryan greenberg's band	221 / 460,000	Well, I do have a band, but it doesn't come up in the search results. Ironically, though, five of the top twenty results refer to me and the University of Pennsylvania Marching Band (which is definitely a band I'm associated with a great deal, but by no means my band).
greenberg family foundation	432 / 1,290,000	How I wish. But no, sorry, that's not me. . .
i should be sleeping greenberg	1 / 230,000	Check it out - someone who seems to have actually been looking for my blog. And guess what - the #1 search result. The world is officially in perfect harmony. . .
sherry smile	6 / 447,000	I just need to point out here that of the 447,000 "sherry smile"s out there, my wife's is #6. Not bad. . .

Politics is heating up, so how about a couple in that category:

Query	Rank / # of Results	Comments
brian greenberg + 2008 campaign	1 / 253,000	If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve. . .
bush endorses clinton	>500 / 1,720,000	Heh. Here's what happens when you forget to put quotes in a Google query. Sure - those three words have appeared on many web pages together, but in that order? Probably not. . .

And then there's always the weird & wacky:

Query	Rank / # of Results	Comments
mushroom trip after lasik surgery	>500 / 34,200	Ooh boy - I'm thinking maybe the surgery didn't go so well. If the world looks like a mushroom trip, you better consult your eye doctor again.
the year 2176	>500 / 1,760,000	I can't imagine there's a lot of info on the web about this topic just yet, but you never know. . .
what is the time of the longest superbowl anthem	>500 / 60,400	Who says there are too many statistics in sports?
dolly porten	88 / 14,300	This one's just for my friend, Jeff Porten. I'll also point out that I was hit #88, so there are 87 other ways the term "Dolly Porten" is relevant to the world in some way.
"has four fingers" -thief -berry -marilyn -cat -kitten -pussy -oprah -cats	>500 / 1,540,000	It's like a Google riddle. My guess is "Mickey Mouse."
what kind of english accent do you have	5 / 489,000	Best query of the month, IMHO. 'Cuz ya know, the French English accent is good, but the Spanish English accent is so much better. . .

And finally, the Adult/Porn-Related queries. The days of being hit with hundreds of these seem to have subsided, so we only have a few worth mentioning:

Query	Rank / # of Results	Comments
adult porn pitchers	>500 / 141,000	Poor speller, or a new definition for the term "relief pitcher?"
dirty pitchers of ashley tisdale	>500 / 296,000	I Should Be Sleeping - the blog of choice for poor spellers with inappropriate thoughts about Disney movies.
family nude camps	>500 / 589,000	"Hey, watch your language! This is a family nude camp!"