Tim
Life is good Joined: Nov 2007
Location: Kalamazoo

This past week I did an ego search on all the major search engines, Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, and even the newly launched Cuil (pronounced 'Cool'). For those that might not know what an ego search is check out the urban dictionary.

Well I was surprised to find that this site showed up as the very first listing on MSN, Yahoo, and Cuil. While stupid Ask didn't even bother to list it and Googleyou have to dig for it despite the tact that Google indexes my site at daily around 30 pages a day and my name appears on ALL OF THEM. What does show up, links to Fuddy Meers. Oh and some other random Tim Meers shows up on Jigsaw.

How hard is it, I mean my god MSN got it and they hit my site like once a week. And Cuil links to me even though there a start-up and they've only ever indexed my robots file WTF!

So what does this mean to me? It means I need to switch from using Google as my search engine of choice and start using MSN even though most of there search results are about as relevant as A Flock of Seagulls front runner Mike Score.

But I encourage every one to do an ego search, you might find that there is a lot more about you on the net than you think. Hell you might even decide to start looking at other searching methods or perhaps dig a deep tunnel and hide yourself for the rest of eternity from civilization or at least until you drop of the top 10 pages of the Google index.