Mark Roberts wrote: > Don Williams wrote: > >> This is quite interesting. Since we are all looking for our names I did >> a search for my own full name, in inverted commas, and got 529 hits -- >> all me. Some go back to publications as far back as the mid 1970s -- >> most refer to recent postings.
> Well Google returns 747,000 hits on "Mark Roberts". > The good news is that I'm up to number four in the rankings. Hooray! > The bad news is that I'm still behind Mark Roberts "the Streaker" :( > (That is, "behind" as in "lower in the Google rankings. I don't know > that being behind him in real life would be better or worse than being > ahead or him. Depends on which way you're looking I suppose...) > What you get is indeed influenced by asking for that specific term, as Don did by putting the full name in quotes. On D. K. Whaley I got 95,800 hits. Preposterous! So, I tried "D. K. Whaley" and got 68 hits! Don Whaley, 1840 hits Keith whaley, my usual 'name', got 738 hits. While a number of the hits were indeed accurate, and DID reflect information hits, but even then a fairly large number were not me. Now *I* know I'm not an agricultural taxonomist, a priest, a rock star, a scientist, don't llve in the U.K., etc. But, anyone just trying to see what and who I am, and Google me, wouldn't know most of that. On the other hand, anyone who thinks their name is a bit rare and unique only has to Google it to see they're quite wrong! <grin> keith aka DK Whaley, etc., etc. most of whom are NOT me! ;-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
