Yesterday we got more than 500 hits on a Nicholas Gruen recommendation to see Knocked Up. And the search term almost all the visitors used to get there? “Elisha Gray”, currently hot right now on account of the claim Alexander Bell stole the design of the telephone from him.
The words Elisha and Gray do not appear on Nick’s recommendation. Sometimes the Internet confuses me.
Update: Solved by Don Arthur — if you look for Elisha Gray on MSN image search, apart from a page full of identical pictures of Gray there’s one juicy picture of Katherine Heigl which leads people to Troppo. To Google — don’t fret. To MSN — keep trying, guys.
Jacques – I wonder if search result is somehow connected to Elisha Cuthbert and Gray’s Anatomy?
I’ve got no idea, Don. But that wouldn’t explain why people are finding it specifically on “Elisha Gray”, not on other combinations of those keywords.
If the hits are coming from MSN image searches then it’s probably got something to do with the Katherine Heigl image link in Yobbo’s comment.
You’d think so, except we’ve had a steady pitter patter of Heigl-hounds since then anyhow. This is a new phenomenon.
Interesting.
Try this:
1. Go to MSN image search
2 Type in the words ‘elisha’ and ‘gray’
3. Click on the image of Katherine Heigl (it’s right underneath the picture of the Gray’s Anatomy cast)
And you’re at Troppo!
But, as you say, the mystery is why MSN’s search engine thinks the Katherine Heigl picture is related to Elisha Gray.
Jacques Chester;
[Slightly off-topic} Thought the allegation was that Mr A.G. Bell lifted the concept from an impoverished Florentine [Italian] immigrant to the United States who didn’t have the money to complete the patent application process. The name Elisha Grey doesn’t ring a bell.