It's been a while since I've done a vanity search. Searching just for "marybeth", I've moved up from third to second in Google, from second to first on Yahoo, and have stayed in first with MSN and AlltheWeb.
Searching for my full name yields about the same results (second in Google, first in the others) but some of the links that referred to me in the first couple of pages were in a different order and some appeared that hadn't shown in the "marybeth" search. Interesting to see the difference one keyword can make in the results.
I also did a search for my father's name. He doesn't even have a website but he still got more search results than my full name did. I shouldn't be surprised though, he's been "playing" (his term, not mine) computer for a long time and all of the search results referring to him were *nix related. I guess that means that doing something still beats just talking.
Posted by marybeth at July 26, 2005 01:51 PM Internet