popularity contest

[jfb]

So, woo! I'm finally on the first page of Google results for my name. That is, my this-millennium web site is finally on the first page.

The only pages that still rank higher are my last-millennium web site from grad school and... two posts from the URI mailing list circa 1993. Why do those posts have a higher rank? Are a lot of people linking to my decade-old opinions on syntactic wrappers for uniform resource identifiers?

But at least I've finally won out over my 1998 flirtation with programming by example, my 1993 quibbles with the URL spec, the 1824 birth of a son to John Erik Ostrom of Limborg, Sweden, and Dave's perpetual insistence that he's not really dead.

ego-googling == fun.

Comments

Poor Dave.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Poor, poor Dave. He will be missed.

I just realized the other day that the results for the 2001 Go Congress made it to the first page of my ego-Google. And creepy Christian Glenn doesn't seem to be on there anymore. Yay!

Re: Poor Dave.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Poor Christian Glenn.

[marm0t.livejournal.com]

I wish dave had a livejournal.

Also:

[marm0t.livejournal.com]

Interesting.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

It was bad enough that for a long time the first hit on my name was my mom's page. At least that was me. But now the top hit is an anthropology article database, where it is a typo for the anthtopologist Emma Crewe. At least #2 is really me.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Wow. I guess I can be thankful that I'm not overshadowed by a typo.

[tuliphead.livejournal.com]

in a way, i'm kind of relieved that googling for my name doesn't give any results related to me for almost four pages in. even then, it's on someone else's website. there sure are a lot of people with my name out there.

[xythian.livejournal.com]

Of course, you just increased the rank of that programming by example flirtation and Dave's page. Hopefully the link to your new site will cancel the other two out.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Ah, but, I carefully avoided any links to pages that are on the list. Those links are just for educational purposes. (Dave's page does have my name on it, but it's not high on the list; the PBE page links to another page with my name on it, but I'm hoping the second-order effect of my new link will be small.)

Also, Google seems mostly (but not entirely) ignorant of livejournal posts, in some way I haven't figured out.

[pobig.livejournal.com]

The top match for my real name, and almost all of the other matches, are due to my early to mid-90s habit of voting "no" on every newsgroup proposal that didn't appeal to me. The top match is the "wet blanket" awards for 1995. Going to take a while to beat that, unfortunately.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Well, I know it's seven or eight years late, but I'd like to offer my congratulations.

[pobig.livejournal.com]

You're too kind. I can't remember what my beef with most of the proposals was now...