When Boredom Sets In
Sunday, 31st October 2004
Inspired by a recent comment by someone claiming to have found my site from searching for “Elly” on yahoo I did a quick trawl of various search engines to see how possible it is to find me by searching for my first name. Bearing in mind most people don’t look past the second page of results, being in the top twenty for any given keyword is obviously preferable.
So, how did I do?
Mostly I did quite well. Jeeves and Metacrawler don’t find me with just my first name. Jeeves doesn’t find me with my second name either.
Google, Yahoo, AOL, AltaVista and Lycos’s “search everywhere” sites all put me on the second page. Their “search UK only” searches all put me twice in the top 3 – once as elly thompson.co.uk and once as ellythompson.co.uk/blog.
Which possibly makes me the most prominent Elly in the UK.
Jay:
‘schlackman’ gets me on the 1st page of Google.com, and on Google.co.uk the first 4 hits are all me.
Ner ner ni ner ner.
Not really. ‘Jay’ doesn’t get me anywhere, largely because the front page title of my website doesn’t have Jay in it anymore, since it is now a marital asset, just like everything else. Including my City of Heroes subscription.
AskJevees’ UK search doesn’t have my website in it at all, because the rather pathetically filter all domains that don’t end in .uk, regardless of where they are actually hosted. Well, **** you AskJeeves! Just for that, I’m going to move to America in a few years time and then I really WILL be outside the UK!
Tuesday 2nd, November 2004
at 11:11 pm