So today is a great day. You'll see why today is a great day if you head over to google and search for gene wood (without quotes) and look at the number one result. I've finally beaten the other Gene Wood, the game show announcer, in whom's shadow I've been living for so many years. I feel like I want to throw a pagerank party.
Well, maybe I won't. Looks like someone has only one slot to go to beat her rival, though in a sense she already has.
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do i count since i have the top 5 slots when you google my name?
Congratulations! It was a long battle, but I applaud your triumph. Let this serve notice to Irish tenor Sean Keane – your day is nigh.
why the different result for “gene wood” in this case? i know this betrays my google stupidity, but my curiousity demands an answer.
when you do “gene wood” it has to have the words in that exact phrase. when you just do gene wood the words can be seperate anywhere on the page.
i’m not *that* stupid, but thanks for the vote of confidence. i guess my question is why cementhorizon wouldn’t come up for “gene wood” too. ostensibly, searches for “gene wood” would surpass matches for gene wood. that’s all i’m asking about.
I think it’s probably comments that make the difference. The game show host is nearly always referred to by his full name, whereas many of the Cementhorizon references would be comments attributed only to “gene”. Soon our Gene will also win the “gene wood” search engine derby, but until then, Game Show Host Gene Wood can enjoy a fading moment of Google glory.
Marina,
Being number one on google for “gene wood” isn’t all that hard. There are only 874 pages in the world with the *phrase* “gene wood” on them. I’m not currently number one for the phrase though. There are however 2,420,000 pages in the world with both the word gene and the word wood on them. To be number one in a pool of 2 and a half million is something. Also, when people search for things (unless they’re uber elite) they usually don’t use quotation marks to designate word sequences as phrases.
i see why i’m not so special. there’s probably not that many pages with my first and last name on them.
I think Gene’s page numbers are inflated by having nouns for both his first and last name.
Not his page rank, I mean, but just the number of pages with “gene” and “wood” on them.
and also the number of woods which contain the words “gene” and “wood” within them. like….woodspice and genealogy. generate. genetics. generally, generic, phosgene. i need more words with wood in them. wooden.
and by “# of woods” i mean “# of words”. heh.
Hardwood, softwood, woodgrain, and if I keep using words like this we’re going to get buried under the spam.
keep in mind though that the pages returned searching for gene and wood won’t return words containing the word gene (e.g. generally, phosgene, etc.) just gene (and sometimes the pluralized version)
But yes, the number of pages with gene and wood on it is very large, since gene and wood are common words.
What IS phosgene anyway?
Never mind, never mind. The little voice in my head told me to stop being lazy and Google it, so I did. I had been thinking that it would be a good thing to call Gene, but maybe not.
it’s science!
volatile liquid or gas. smells like new-mown hay.
For a while, I was attempting to use people’s full names just in increase their Internet famousness… but then it occured to me that being Internet famous isn’t really the best thing, so I’ve deleted most last names from my blog. With or without quotation marks, my name gives me the first couple Google result, but the links go to my NY trip photo gallery and my Filipino Thansksgiving photo gallery rather than my blog.
yeah, i took my full name out of the photo gallery because i really am not so fond of being quite this famous.
i have 1.79 million pages. close to gene wood, but not quite. i will never make it to the top of that list–goddamned san francisco–nor would i really want to. i’m affraid ex lovers will google me and find out where i am. i don’t need that.
Somehow I never think of old boyfriends being able to find me that way. Perhaps it’s because I know they’re all either too self-absorbed or computer illiterate to search for my name…
ah, but marina’s ex is a psychotic born-again christian who managed to find her once before and show up on her doorstep. so she actually has a valid fear.
That is indeed very scary.
my ex boyfriend comes to my house all the time. in fact he lives here. no sense in me hiding i guess.
though if you were so inclined, the closet seems like a good place from which to spring out yelling “glove!”