bookmarks are for oldies

Bookmarks are for old people. I have some regular readers. I can sorta guess their ages. The younger ones revisit my page by using Google to search on "benmiller" or "ben miller" or believe it or not "benmiller.com." Even with incipient Alzheimer's I can remember the www and save a few of my rapidly dwindling (probabilistic) store of seconds of (borderline) lucidity. Youth, so truly wasted on the young. For the young'uns, my referrer log shows variants of:





The oldies use bookmarks, so when they revisit my log shows no referrer:



followup:
* more common across all age groups than I thought according to AOL search data leaked earlier this year discussed in the context of the self-serving nature of the end-of-year lists of popular search terms offered by the rival search engines. [ref]