Ever Google Yourself?

After listening to a recent podcast where a presenter mentioned setting up a Google Alert searching for the presenter’s name to see what people were saying. This seems like a great idea. However, I realized when I actually conducted my own Google search of my own name that it is completely impractical if you have a common name. I received hundreds of thousands of hits and none were related to me.

I don’t consider my name common, however the relationship between my name, the names of American Founding fathers, holidays, and calendars is astounding which makes a Google search entirely too cumbersome to concern ones self with.

As a result, unless I do something that will entrench my name in national or local news, future employers will probably not be able to find usefull information about me using current search engine technology (which may be good for me).

MySpace Popularity Slips

MySpace less popular than in April 2007: Traffic on MySpace dipped by 16% last month compared to April 2007 as Facebook and other social-networking sites captured student attention. “Social networking Web sites continue to attract loyal visitors who return regularly to communicate with their friends, particularly for MySpace and Facebook, the market leaders,” said Hitwise research director Heather Dougherty. According to a Report in InformationWeek on May 7th.