My thoughts on…vanity searching
Old man inspiration up and left me yesterday and most of this morning, as I was cramming like hell for an accounts exam which I thought was today, but to my pleasant surprise takes place on Friday. But my desperation is understandable, as in the first test I got a score that would make George Bush’s IQ look impressive. So just for fun, I decided to do a vanity search on my name. I did a few before, but that was with the intention of tracking my blog’s visibility in Google. But now my aim was to find out how many Leon Robinsons there are in the world. For the uninformed, a vanity search is when you look up your name on a search engine. So I punched in “Leon Robinson” and hoped for the best. Turns out that there’s a famous black actor named Leon Robinson, Wikipedia entry and everything.
Hmmn. I often got hits from searches for “Leon Robinson.” This stroked the ol’ ego a bit, as I thought people were searching for my blog. Made me feel as if I was getting noticed on the Interweb. Turns out I was sharing the spotlight with a real star. He even came in Cool Runnings, a movie every Jamaican should know, but somehow I never noticed him. Handsome fellow too. But then again I expected no less. I wonder if this Leon Robinson will get a Wikipedia entry of his own someday? There is also a black NFL player with the same name. Not bad. I’m proud to share the same name with two successful brothers. On a sadder note, there was a Leon Robinson (this one was white) who was killed in Australia by Aboriginals late last year in a racially motivated killing. Those are all the namesakes I could find. As you can see, vanity searching can be more than searching to see if those photos of you getting bicurious while drunk made it to the Internet. So, what did you dig up?
holy crap dude i’m second. i mean.. its my old blog but its still mine.. and i guess i could do a redirect on it if needs be.. so cool
Whew, Nothing under my name…….
But funny enough, Cranky Putz, and whopee my site is the first hit….i remember three months ago, it was on the 36th page….quite a jump.
When I searched for Mad Bull, my blog comes up third. It was first at one time, so I am doing something wrong, I guess, but I no longer really care.
When I search for my real name, I got so many links, its not funny. After looking thru 35 pages, I decided to narrow the search. I searched for my name and appended the search term Jamaica. 35 pages later, I still haven’t found anything related to me.
I don’t much care about that either, except that it makes me realise just how common my name is! My God!
I wonder if I should change it…
Hell, I even read about an 18 y.o. boy who was beaten and stabbed to death because he stole a stick of weed from someone… in Glasgow, of all places!
Doubt anything will show up for me..Will check though
I kow the Leon yuh talking obut, he’s a pretty decent actor also.
Searches on my name don’t produce much, so I’m glad for that. but havn’t searched lately…