Today I am attending a conference on the communication of Physics, at Frascati. They invited me there to present this blog, and discuss my experience with it. I spent last night trying to put together something meaningful, and I am now approximately satisfied with the result.

While I was preparing my slides (which include a online navigation in the site), it occurred to me that it has been a long time since I last played the "top searches" game. If you own a web site, you can play it too: it consists in finding combinations of words that, input in the google search window, will get one of your pages as the first hit.

It looks hard, but if your site has some traffic, google knows about it, and you might be surprised to find out that there are indeed specific topics that you discuss more frequently and thoroughly than others. Try first with some long weird sentence, which is likely only found in your blog. Then you may narrow it a bit by making the search more inclusive, and see what you get.

In the case of my blog, it is not too hard to put together searches that produce a positive output. I could find a few where I am at the top (and in some cases where I totally dominate, with the first few hits all from my pen):

- top mass : 1° hit in google
- Higgs search: 1° hit in google
- Higgs limits: 1°, 2°, 3°, 4° hit in google!
- and so on (I challenge you to find more two-word searches finding this blog first - I know a few).

I also discovered cases when I am not at the top, but still surprisingly high, given the general nature of the search. Examples include CDF (3°, but before wikipedia!)

Of course, google constantly updates its database, so the above links may cease to produce the result I quoted at any time. But I saved the pages on my laptop, just in case ;-)

... and by the way, did you ever paid a visit to symphonyofscience.com ? Give it a try!