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

[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.