WordPress blogs have a Dashboard with a link for “blog stats” where we can see how many “hits” our blog had on a given day, whether people clicked on a link to get to us (that sections is called “Referrers), what links on our site were clicked on, and what search words or phrases pulled up our blog.

I noticed yesterday a listing in the Referrers section for a link with Google translator in the url. Curious, I clicked on it, and found…my blog, same header, pictures and everything, only in Oriental characters. I don’t know if it is Chinese or Japanese or what.

My first thought was that someone ‘swiped” my blog. I had heard of that happening — I think it’s called “scraping” — where someone sets up a site and swipes posts from other blogs. But usually those things are surrounded by ads so the person can make money off of it. I showed it to my son and he said there was a way someone could use Google translator to read a site that is in a different language.

I think it is neat that someone found my blog and wanted to read it in Chinese (or Japanese or Korean or whatever). I’m wondering what they searched for that pulled my blog up.

I’m also wondering what Google translator does with words like “germophobe” and “grossed me out” which appeared in my last post. 😀

I’m also wondering if the e-mail with Oriental characters caught in the spam folder in my gmail account is Oriental spam or someone commenting.