So, given the recent rash of Googling nightmares, I have decided to tally up the risk posed to our community by the outside world. I Googled everyone, and here's what I found:
Carl Leushuis: A simple name search will only reveal two things: Ellen's blog and Carl's math tutorial section. A "" search for his exact name leaves Ellen at the top, drops the math tutorial (listed as Leushuis, Carl), and adds his Kiwanis Festival placements and a Playmakers! Footnotes article.
Liam McKenna: Remember when I posted about not being popular on Google, even though I had written an article full of "porn", "soft-core", etc? That article has now lifted me to the second hit for a simple name search. A "" Search changes almost nothing because of the ubiquity of my name.
Ellen Hurley: Totally obscured by genealogy sites. nothing on the first page for a regular or "" search.
Ben Eybergen: The only hit is his grandfather's obit, and a "" search gets rid of that.
Blake Bilyea: Ellen's blog takes first hit again, followed by Blake's at second. Mine comes in at 8th, mainly because it features the article where I list his full name, address, and telephone number instead of just Blake Bilyea. a "" produces only Ellen and Blake's sites.
Dean Podburry: Did you mean Dean Podbury?
Dean Podbury: No relevant hits. A "" produces no hits.
Caleb Losier: No relevant hits until a "" search, which produces a list for a Super Smash Brothers tournament and a comment Caleb wrote on an article about P2P networks.
Jordan Grant: "Jordan Grant is 1st Cousin to President Ulysses S. Grant", not relevant, but still amusing. No relevant hits, a lot of places called Jordan looking for grant money. A "" search produces an OHL hockey player and a list of children's names form 2000.
[Eazy-E]: Ellen's site is the 4th hit, but the first 2 are all about his love of Javamukti yoga. A "" doesn't change the first 5 hits, but then replaces the rest with more Yoga and a Kiwanis Festival list.
John (and Jon) Thompson: Didn't know if I spelled his name right, but neither search turns up anything relevant, with or without "". I could be spelling hislast name wrong...
Tibby Leushuis: 2 hits. Ellen in front, the Australian Legal Information Institue (which didn't load properly) following.
Mathew Binkle, Matt Binkle: Matthew has recently been elected to the Senate here at Waterloo, congratulations. A "" produces a hit from Jordan which for some reason doesn't highlight his name, even though it's in the article snippet that came up on the search. Matt Binkle was a member of St John's ambulance, along with Tonya Cake, Azeta, Tanielle and her sister, and some guy named Steve Virgin.
Dan Nguyen: The world is overrun with them. Like my name, ""ing the search doesn't produce anything more useful. I would need to work a lot harder than I ever plan to to get inter-dirt on Dan.
Josh Kelly: Just like Dan, except that all the hits are about some musician. Even an Advanced Search which blocked pages mentioning "artist" and "honest" (part of this guy's band's name), kept the search flooded with hits for him, in spite of the fact that his name is kelley. Even a "" search turns up plenty of Kelleys, and the rest of the hits are about the same guy with the name spelt wrong.
Andrew Bakes: I am #8 on the hit list, with all others being sentence fragments about other Andrews baking things.
Kiersten Hanly: Kiwanis is #1, while some sort of strange name database is #2. ""ing reduces all hits to just those 2.
DJ Shadow: Kicks total ass. Just thought I'd mention that. I've been listening to my "favourite DJ saviour" for 2 days straight, and I would have gone very crazy otherwise. I haven't posted anything because I've actually been doing work, and it sucketh.
Hopefully this article will rocket me to #1 on a search for any of your names!
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The way to get your article to the top of the Google search result is to have it linked in many many other blogs, with the desired search term as the link name.
Also, DJ Shadow is pretty good. There's a sweet track produced by DJ Shadow by Cage called "Grand Ol' Party Crash", featuring Jello Biafra. Get into it.
Well, now that I know how much I mean to you Liam. 2nd listed from the bottom in your blog? That hurts. Kind of.
Anyways, we watched 2003 Hamlet today. Primo job on the ghost once again.
Also, when my name is searched, this blog has made no difference, you are not on the list.
haha. I love how when my name is googled, my blog doesn't even show up!! I get off scot free, bitches!
**Ellen
Kiersten, if there were a way to put all my links onto a moebius strip, I would. Also, kudos on the posting that comment twice. very cool.
Ellen, you're a dirty tramp. The only thing you're getting away with is AIDS.
EZ, Blood on the Motorway is definately my favourite song off Private Press.
My name used to bring up a review I wrote for Super Mario Bros Advance on Amazon when I was in grade 8 (I know...). I guess it's gone now.
Oh and just typing in a name on Google won't necessarily find a blog. You have to use the blog searcher: http://search.blogger.com/
Super Mario Brothers on old school Nintendo.. is the shit.
And I changed the post. Then deleted the original. :D
I agree with Jordan. Kiersten is obviously full of shit.
I kid, I kid...
Anyways, do a google image search of my name. Serious LOL content.
Hey, I'm fighting slavery too!
Dan, you dirty pornograher.
Fight me
Come to Waterloo with Blake.
Actually, did you ever see that "Dean Still Sucks" shirt that I wear? It was found when someone typed "dean sucks" into Google Images. Let's not get into the potential dangers of that search, but I think it still brings the shirt up...
Oh and, my blog's back.
yeah, that shirt kicks ass.
Liam, pot you hypocritical bastard!
I think what Bakes is trying to say is: "post, you hypocritical bastard."
and I agree.
**Ellen
I've been trying to write a post since Thursday. I got distracted Thursday night and tried to get back to it on Friday. I also got distracted Friday night. I didn't even try to write about today. I'm going to try and finish it tomorrow (Sunday), and it'll either be the longest post I've ever written or I'll just give up and point-form summarize the last 3 days.
I'm outraged that the only thing I'm known for on google is my grandfathers death!
pfft! I've done so much to benifit society recently that I'm astounded that there isn't reams of pages dedicated to how fucking marvelous I am!
....
ok, maybe I'm not, what're you gonna do about it, punk?
Ben
(ps, in the sin city graphic novel, marv looks so much happier than in the movie when he's grinding a thugs skull into the pavement from a speeding chevy)
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