QotD: Search Me

How well does your name Google? Who are you up against? (Celebrities, etc.)
Submitted by Matt Blank.

Very well. More so since I started blogging prolifically. It's all me on Google up until page 3 where others pop up - either not me's or a mixture of either my first or last name standing alone.

A friend explained that Google changes its metrics on searching/finding, so in the past, when I could barely find myself, I am now easy to find because of the comments I leave on others' blogs and because I blog, blog, blog. Getting linked to and from has also pushed me up in the search.

Two published articles I wrote also pop up here and here. The former was copied by the owner of the blog and pasted in its entirety (with credit attributed to me by virtue of including my name) and the latter is a cached version from a website I presume is now... gone, called Herword.com.

Googling my former morning show with - zach and joey nu 107 - produces us up until page 4 albeit sporadically from there onwards.

I'm not up against any really famous people. And I'm happy to see that self-definition on the web certainly beats others-definition any day. Want to pick my brain? Google me.

Great question by the way. I tumbld it the other day and didn't think of suggesting it for QotD. Demn. Vox-fame eludes me still. *continues search to make it to TIG*