Following Randy Seaver's Saturday night fun posted here. Randy tasked his readers with the following:
1) Google yourself at www.google.com. Put your first name, middle initial and last name, plus the name of your city or town in the Search box to see what other persons may have mentioned you online, or to see which blog aggregators are "collecting" you.
I put ["Ginger R Smith" "Raleigh"] into the Search box and received:
* Web: 71 matches (but only 18 when I scroll through them)
With ["Ginger Smith" "Raleigh"]:
* Web: 455 matches (but only 205 when you scroll through them)
2) Then go to the "Images," "Videos" and "News" links and see what they show.
I put ["Ginger R Smith" "Raleigh"] into the Search box and received:
Images: Only one image of the profile picture I have posted to my twitter account
Videos: 0 matches
News: 0 matches
With ["Ginger Smith" "Raleigh"]:
Images: 70 results (mostly from my profile picture found in other people's facebook friends page)
Videos: 0 matches
News: 0 matches
3) Tell us about any surprises you found, either in your blog or in Comments to this post.
Most of the entries in google were for messages I posted to rootsweb message boards, mailing lists or USGenWeb pages.
One reference linked to a paper I co-authored that was presented at a tradeshow.
No references were made to either of my two blogs because evidently I do not use my middle initial on my blog profiles. Hmm...I might consider changing that.
Thanks Randy!
Ginger, you might also google yourself without using the middle initial and putting the name in quotes such as "Ginger Smith" or "Ginger's Blog". Anything in quotes will look for webpages with those words side by side instead of just on the same page. This works when you are looking for genealogy links too. I research the Box line so I have had to learn to be very creative, otherwise, I get music box, recipe box, po box, etc. - Pris
ReplyDeleteHi Pris, thanks for the comment. You have a really good suggestion. I bet you do have to be pretty creative with your Box line too :-) By the way, I'm really glad I came across your blog. It's nice to see some Arkansas representation!
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