Popular Stuarts
Because I have an ego the size of Jupiter, I occasionally run Google searches for myself to see how popular I am. I’ve been the top hit for “langridge” and “kryogenix for a while now, but it turns out that I’m now also the second most popular Stuart on the internet behind stuartmodels.com (no link! ha! no google juice from me, usurpers!). Nearly there, then. :)
Cool beans! I can’t believe you did that, beating Stuart kings and John Stuart Mill. In particular, well done on beating Stuart Little. I just looked up “tom” and hope to scroll down to my first entry by next March. Of course, it all depends on what you mean by popular…
20 minutes later
Would that be Stuart Models, fine purveyors of models called Stuart?
43 minutes later
I had great fun last year tracking my progress up the ‘Rory’ charts. I peaked at around number 20, I think. Now I’m down to 42, but the Douglas Adams fan in me is not disappointed.
Yahoo! is less friendly to bloggers, so I’m only barely in the top 100. Thankfully they are more friendly to egosurfers in that they include numbers beside every result, so I don’t have to count to find myself at 95 (yes, I could have counted backwards from 100).
MSNBot being my most loyal reader, I’m not surprised that I’m 18 on search.msn.com. I may stick to egosurfing on MSN from now on.
80 minutes later
Maybe it’s updated google, maybe I hit a different cache to you, maybe my google personal search knows that I long to be your meat rocket polisher but it puts you at top ranking when I try the search/hit your link….
-Dx
PS. Second place is impressive, *BUT* if you’re google’s “I’m feeling lucky” for Stuart then you are truely a jammy git and need much beatings at LRL…. Just from envy mainly. (I’m second for Darran, you see…)
95 minutes later
well - I’m top for mrben, but that’s not a big surprise. I’m _way_ down for ‘ben’ and ‘thorp’…. but then I don’t mention my name much on my blog, and I don’t believe there’s any meta data…..
Is there a way to get google to tell you how far down you are in a particular search?
96 minutes later
Yeah, I used to be top for “Meri”. Having an unusual name, figured it would be easy, but damn the Medical Engineering & Research Institute and the Materials and Engineering Research Institute!!
2 hours later
Interesting timing. I was just having this conversation in the pub last week with Matt Webb from interconnected.org who manages to pull off a high ranking on both google.com and .co.uk versions. To my frustration I realise I’ve just this week slipped a couple of places on the first page of the .co.uk search for ‘rob’. Must try harder.
22 hours later
Tom: yeah, I’m not clear that “popular on Google” actually translates to “popular”. In fact, I think there might be an inverse relationship between the two.
Paul: you bastard!
Rory: search.msn.com doesn’t like me at all, it seems. Then again, I don’t like MSN, so it’s probably karma or something.
Meri: If someone sets up Systems Testing Underground and Rotational Television then I expect to be in trouble.
23 hours later