99.99% of you can safely ignore this message.

If your handy dandy search bot has notified you that your search term of preference has popped up here, this is for you. Your bots are sapping my juice. Bots tax the server and slow the site down, people have to wait forever for comments to post and what not if your bots are hogging the server every 2 minutes (literally). That’s ridiculous. At bare minimum, there’s 120 automated bot searches every hour. I wouldn’t mind if these were manual searches drawing resources but no, it’s people’s search bots run amok. The same ones running over and over and over, several times an hour. Good grief. Check your settings. It’s likely you don’t know this is what your errant script is doing.

Below is a list of offender’s search terms:

“technical designer”, technical designer, June 21, 2005, ed hardy, finding retail stores, sales rep advice, sourcing fabric, pant alteration, vionnet, find a sales rep, welt pocket, fashion careers, browzwear

These are the only ones I can post without embarrassing people. People who’ve been searching for their own names repeatedly have been notified privately, as well as any others I could pick out. If you are manually searching for these terms or any others via the search box, or you have no idea what this entry is about, I doubt you have anything to worry about.

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I appreciate your cooperation. Thanks.