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Who is Searching Google for Norm Coleman's Database?

Posted on March 11, 2009

I had a few hundred visitors by 10am so I decided to create a list of the vistors to my blog post on the Norm Coleman Database Leak. For my own safety and to show how EASY it is to track visitors so if my little blog can handle 1,000 visitors in 24 hours, Norm’s office should cough up the numbers that crushed their website server.

Norm Coleman Website Crash Exposes Database and Email Lists

So far, we’ve got the Mayo Foundation, Hennepin County, First Bank, Wells Fargo, Best Buy…

Are these companies where people who donated to Norm Coleman and checking the site from work?

Are they needing to cut up their credit cards?

I will be adding it throughout the day

University of Alabama
College of St. Catherine
Minnesota Public Radio (You never know)
National Institute of Health
American Medical Response
US Department of State
City of New York
Ecolab
West Publishing Corporation
American Medical Response
National Institute of Health
University of Alabama
Massachusetts Institute of Art (very awesome MIT would stop by)
University of California
University of Illinois
University of Minnesota
St. Olaf College
Datacard Corporation
U.S. Senate Sergent At
Medical College of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Fingerhut Direct Marketing (Why are you stopping by my blog?)
Western Illinois University
Faegre & Benson LLP (Lawyers? uh oh)
Dorsey & Whitney (Why is it so popular with lawyers to name law firms like this?)
Cargill
Valley Office Partners
Marvin Windows and Doors
TCF Financial Corporation
Research Triangle Institute (Interesting)
Target Corporation
U.S. House of Representatives
Knight Ridder <- Media company (Thanks redwing!)
IBM
Star Tribune Newspaper
Harland Financial
Academy of Art University
Renolds and Renolds
Mc Miller Company
American Civil Liberties Union (sweet! Hello there!)
General Mills
Amazon.com
Trw Space and Defense
De Castro, West, Chodorow (lawyers again?)
Edina Reality

Who is searching for Norm Coleman's Database?

These website visitor traffic stats are being collected with Clicky.
It's like Google Analytics but you don't have to wait 24 hours.
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- 8 Comments - Posted in Politics, Security Tagged with: , ,

  • redwing

    Knight Ridder is a media company that owns the San Jose Mercury News

  • bvac

    I like your traffic stats. Is Clicky free to use? I looked around the site and couldn’t find any prices, but I don’t want register before knowing for sure.

  • adria.richards

    @bvac,
    Clicky has a free version which is great for many people. You can sign up for Clicky and you start with the free version. I wrote up a review comparing Clicky to Google Analytics so please read that if you want to understand the benefits and ease of use with Clicky. There is amazing support and very active development by the programmers which is a big plus in my book.

  • Michael

    So, I don’t see MSNBC in there! How did they find you?! ;-)

  • Pinky

    What you don’t mention is that many of those ‘visits’ are often just hits from the search engines. I monitor a few websites and am amazed at the number of ‘hits’ that really aren’t. Anything less than 5 seconds is just a ‘drive by’ and really barely counts as a true ‘visit’.

    Still it’s interesting to see military people browsing an environmentalist website. Is that their next front on the war on terror? haven’t they done enough damage? /rant

    I love seeing women in tech. I’m old school when all of the ‘tech’ classes were men only… Sad…

  • adria.richards

    @Pinky,
    Because these are not bots and crawlers. My Google Analytics numbers look different than my Clicky stats for that reason.

    This week, I had a 2% bounce rate Wednesday and 3% bounce rate Thursday. That means that almost every single visitor on Wed (1000+) and Thurs (2000+) clicked on at least one thing once they arrived.

    Those are crazy sick numbers for bounce rates. Most sites see somewhere between 40%-80% and lower numbers are better.

    Good example! Or vegetarians visiting a site about fresh meat production.

    Thanks, I like being in tech as a woman. We need more women in Technology! Start your girls early! Teach them about Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer back in 1842

  • ne7minder

    This is more for you than to post but either way.
    my current gig is providing security help for one of the big companies on your list up there. I have direct contact with some sr. management and they were in a tizzy. They wanted every little scrap of info that could be dug up about what happened & how many of their executives information were exposed. The panic was palpable, I tried to use it as a teachable moment (how can you avoid having this happen to your corporate data) but I don’t think I got very far because all they cared about was their individual info.

    Congrats on the ‘catch’ btw

  • adria.richards

    @ne7minder,
    I hope you can help them understand this is a process problem, not an individual problem.

    I would guess this is why Wikileaks contacted people directly.

    It’s like when someone in your family gets cancer; often people pick it up as a personal cause when before, they were not involved.

    This quickly became personal for a lot of people…fast

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