It's like you say : AI and their algorythms. Yet ... yet ... I honestly think it is a way of spying.

I have always considered this site as a sort of think tank and incubator [Hey T, I have a post coming your way :)] So the database is chock'full of keywords --hundreds upon hundreds.

I remember when Google started trolling blogs --I've had sites under culturekitchen since 2000-01 but blogs since 2002. There were only about 100K blogs in the world. Now there's over 65 million. We've been around for so long the web spiders just looooove this site. And all kinds of bots come here --at one point, we were being hit by the carnivore project.

The SEO of this site is dang good --this site has a ranking of 7 in Google. It's insane considering that, depending on the search string, culturekitchen ranks higher than Forbes, NY Times or Washington Post --and we have about 1/1000th of their traffic.

Which is why we get read in all departments of the government, as well as universities and agencies world-wide. We end up being the first stop in a lot of people's researches ---especially feminist issues, philosophy, history.

The funny thing though is that, as much "serious" writing as we have here, what ultimately gets the most hits are things like photos of hearthrobs like Juanes, Benicio del Toro or Viggo Mortensen or, right now the #2 pages of the month seem to be Jennifer Holliday in Dreamgirls and Jennifer Hudson's version of "And I Ain't Going" for the movie. Oh, and always my now infamous post about Condoleeza and Dubya; which is the most read post in the history of this site.

Since posting that one, I actually came to terms with the probability that my site would be monitored :lol:

Of course, it is.