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Wednesday, September 15

discount crianlarich wedding gifts?

Posted by duncan.

Memory is a funny thing. I, for instance, had completely forgotten that when passing through the small Scottish town of Crianlarich last month I had on a whim purchased a large mail-order wedding gifts business.

It was a link from TallSkinnyKiwi that put me back on the case. He noted a new search engine, A9, mostly google-powered but released by Amazon. Interested, I went over and, well, "googled” myself—see the mindspace that other engine holds? Scrolling through the results I was surprised to see on a later page something that was clearly a link to this blog, but in a strange context. I clicked through to discover it was at the time the last link on the first page of a site advertising wedding presents in Crianlarich! Most odd.

Now, I did blog about Crianlarich when we were there just over a month ago. But to the best of my knowledge, I actually decided against purchasing the mail order businesses on offer, focussing instead on the comfortable pillows, cooked breakfasts, and early departures to Fort William... So quite how we've ended up in a retail frontpage is beyond me. Some kind of automatic page creation, presumably, designed to give the impression of content in order to drive traffic and thus advertising revenue. Since the site must be at least partly dynamic, perhaps this blog won't even be mentioned there by the time you visit. But if we can't beat em, we may as well both join 'em and subvert 'em. And this entry should help us keep in the rankings! So roll up, roll up, get your discount wedding gifts right here, in Central Crianlarich. All major credit cards accepted...

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That is too weird. But I'll place an order for the wine rack and corkscrew set. Gift wrapped please.

Posted by nick at 4:42pm on Thursday 16 September 2004

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Posted by duncan at 9:48pm on Thursday 16 September 2004

Looks like someone's found their mistake on that site, and manually corrected it, as we're not listed any more! Ah, our noteriety was short lived... But we've still got a business to run, so don't cancel those orders. After all, there's nothing better than a budget wedding present...

Please don't let this put you off blogging, Stephanie. I promise we won't send you a wedding present from our own store.

Posted by duncan at 12:06pm on Friday 17 September 2004


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