Anything with "...rati" at the end

I was looking at my referrer report today (you know, my current obssession) to see how many people visit my site and how far over the earth my little musings reach. Okay, I'm just greedy. I want to see who reads me. I was very pleased to see that I have some hits from search results. This means some poor, unsuspecting people are trying to find real answers to their questions and instead they wind up on my blog.

Sometimes they want to know how passata is made. So they are directed to Passata and Kalamata. Other times they want to know about writing programs or searched for some random keyword that happens to be buried in one of my posts. I love them all. I want more people to click on my site and grunt in irritation as they have to wade through my narrative to find their word (which of course, isn't at all what they meant to find).

There's Yahoo search and Google, sure. But my favorite is Technorati. I just love this word. In today's crowded jargon market, this one is a keeper. It sounds like it would be some kind of geek site like my husband's happy little venture DevBistro, but then it ends in "..rati," instantly making you think you'll be part of some high society if you go there. This brings me back to my Renaissance Art History courses. Everyone who published books in Renaissance Italy was part of the literati (basically a guild for those gray-haired merchant-class dudes who were considered acceptable specimens for writing). So I guess the technorati must be the guild for...people who like technology? People who like to search for stuff on geek websites? Oh, I know, people who like to write, but only do it on a technological platform. Yeah, that must be it.

But then there's also the glitterati. Another guild for the learned and literate. Oh, wait. Isn't Paris Hilton president of that? Or maybe that's people that went to see Mariah Carey's stunning film debut in Glitter. I have to rent that.