{"id":1043,"date":"2009-01-12T22:55:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T03:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2009-01-25T20:18:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T01:18:33","slug":"couch-surfing-zach-bardon-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/2009\/01\/12\/couch-surfing-zach-bardon-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Couch Surfing Zach Bardon Girls!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I occasionally Google myself, just for fun. There’s plenty of hits about me and my music, and a ton of hits for some programs I wrote ages ago (an m3u-to-HTML conversion utility<\/a> and a solitaire card game<\/a> I invented and co-wrote with my friend Kevin Baba).<\/p>\n

Today, among the Google results was a Thai website detailing search statistics<\/a>, and in the list of keywords was “couch surfing zach bardon girls.” All together.<\/p>\n

What does this mean? This means that someone, somewhere, did a search for the phrase “couch surfing zach bardon girls”! I think that is fantastic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, a Google search for “couch surfing zach bardon girls”<\/a> lists that Thai site as the only result. If I remove the quotes, we get my friend and fellow singer-songwriter Amaryah’s MySpace page<\/a> as the top hit (I’m playing drums on a couple of her tunes, by the way). Amaryah has been Couchsurfing a bit, and I’ve commented on her page, oddly enough mentioning girls, hence the match.<\/p>\n

Just in case there’s something the searcher knew that I don’t, a proper search for “zach bardon” couchsurfing girls<\/a> (quotes only around my name, “couchsurfing” is properly one word) shows nothing terribly exciting. Some Couchsurfing pages where I happen to appear, Amaryah’s page again, and a couple blogs — one by David Lamignan Larsen, a Norwegian rapper I recorded in San Francisco, and one by myself, where I was talking about the Tour on my own MySpace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I feel that the search terms “couch surfing zach bardon girls” ought to have much better results than that, so I have used them several times in this post (including the title) and I am also including actual pictures of real Couchsurfing girls that I have stayed with and\/or hung out with during the Tour, in the hopes that if anyone makes this search in the future, they will have more fruitful results.<\/p>\n

Actual Couchsurfing Girls that Zach Bardon Met on His Tour<\/h3>\n

\n\"Daneen \"Liz \"Angie \"Becky \"Emily \"Trinh \"Susan \"Maggie \"Julia \"Laura \"Dominique \"Kaelee<\/p>\n

I, Zach Bardon<\/strong>, would like to express my thanks to these girls<\/strong> for giving me many excellent couch surfing<\/strong> experiences, and for each being another wonderful reason the Couchsurfing project is world-changingly great!<\/p>\n

Also, if you are the person who searched for “couch surfing zach bardon girls”, please<\/em> let me know so I can thank you for making my day.<\/p>\n

NEXT: Our regularly scheduled travel blog about Logan, UT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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