egosurfing
I don't remember this being the case earlier, but I'm now the #3 result for matt casey on google. I'm also #3 on live.com and this journal is #1 at yahoo. I'm also #1 at ask.com. Glancing at the top results from all these, google seems to return the most substantive pages for the query.
I also ran my name through image search, and google was the only one to put me on the first page (it put me as #1!). I like the UI that live.com has for image search, though it lacked pictures of me near the top.
This got me thinking about how much of my "content" is hidden in different silos. For example, there are plenty of (tagged!) pictures of me on facebook, but those are not crawled. Granted there are some pictures I wouldn't want coming up as the first result, but overall having all of this content hidden doesn't really help much. None of the content in this journal is (currently) indexed by search engines, too (I set it to not index this), which I'm having second thoughts about. It would be nice to be able to search my journal, and LJ doesn't have good search built-in.
My guess is that most of the people reading this post are thinking the opposite thing: you'd like to keep things private, etc. Certainly this is a valid concern, which is why there are privacy settings in the first place, but I'm beginning to think that having a bigger online presence is something I should look in to. Perhaps I'll do something new with magicspatula this summer.
I also ran my name through image search, and google was the only one to put me on the first page (it put me as #1!). I like the UI that live.com has for image search, though it lacked pictures of me near the top.
This got me thinking about how much of my "content" is hidden in different silos. For example, there are plenty of (tagged!) pictures of me on facebook, but those are not crawled. Granted there are some pictures I wouldn't want coming up as the first result, but overall having all of this content hidden doesn't really help much. None of the content in this journal is (currently) indexed by search engines, too (I set it to not index this), which I'm having second thoughts about. It would be nice to be able to search my journal, and LJ doesn't have good search built-in.
My guess is that most of the people reading this post are thinking the opposite thing: you'd like to keep things private, etc. Certainly this is a valid concern, which is why there are privacy settings in the first place, but I'm beginning to think that having a bigger online presence is something I should look in to. Perhaps I'll do something new with magicspatula this summer.