The Skew John Lewis Game
Published by on May 1st, 2007 21 Comments »
I’m shopping for a few things online this morning and I go to John Lewis. I notice they have a “Most Searched” result in the left column of the site. Right now, it’s predictable: luggage, sunglasses, trampolines. Here’s the game we thought up…
Skew the John Lewis Most Searched results with Squirrels.
The key is to generate enough search queries leading to a guaranteed database result that it shows up in the top three Most Searched. Because a search for squirrels or squirrel actually leads to a product on the site, it should - in theory - work. We should see squirrels and trampolines in the same top three. How fantastic would that be!
The game is on. Tell your friends to search John Lewis for squirrels. Feel free to use one of the badges below on your site.
It’d be great if you could link back to this post (the permalink) when using the badge so people know what’s up. Or, explain it on your own‚Äî I don’t mind. Just go. Go now and search John Lewis for squirrels. Viva la silliness!
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21 Responses to “The Skew John Lewis Game”
[...] Mildly pointless but more fun than bum rushing pretty much anything – mainly because there are squirrels involved. Go do it now before you forget! [...]
awww, the squirrels that are on their site are sooo cute!
The Waddlington duck family is really cute, too.
[...] funny! Paul Boag twittered about it, and regularjen came up with it. Skew the John Lewis Most Searched results with Squirrels. The key is to generate [...]
Hi Jen
Hope you didn’t mind the traffic. I blame Boag’s twitter myself
Wow! My hits are going up! Thank you to everyone spreading the word!
Keep it up‚Äö?Ñ?Ƭ¨‚Ćlet’s get a result!
(Is this something Digg would like? I’ve never ‘dug’ a post/story before… I don’t dare digg myself‚Äö?Ñ?Ƭ¨‚Ćthat’s just wrong, isn’t it?)
@ AlunR‚Äö?Ñ?Ƭ¨‚Ćheck no I don’t mind! I’d love for this to actually work!
I’m so pleased people are finding this fun.
Linked to this on my blog – Neil (mine – Ford) told me about this! ;-p
Thank you Natalie!
I think what AlunR’s probably trying to say is “come work for us”
A t-shirt with a big “I get my squirrels at John Lewis” spread across the front would be great!
You’re so posh – I always get my squirrels at Asda (but they’re always a bit stale…)
(ps – ’stumbled you’ as well so expect some more traffic too
hehe)
The game is still on – blog it, podcast it, twitter it… Squirrel Power!
so I think it has to be done…
Bumrush the Squirrel
Done….I can’t believe I just did this. But it makes me smile so I had to
Good idea, but I say increase the puzzlement by searching for “Death Apples”.
Added a link back here to my tumblog, fun idea!
Thank you everyone! Welcome new faces!
Squirrel power!
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[...] Jen has discovered that the John Lewis website apparently tracks the most popular searches, and is undertaking an experiment to see whether it does. All you need to do is head over to the John Lewis website and search for ’squirrel’ or [...]