Googling Myself

A friendly reader of one of my fascinating group of articles left me a comment saying that she found this article when she was Googling herself. She thought I might like to check it out myself and see what parts of the cyberspace universe I had landed in. So I thought, hey, sounds intriguing.

I pulled up the Google search and typed my name in, "Pattie Byrd," being very careful to make sure I had spelled it correctly. Suddenly, there in my face were 159,000 places where Google had spotted me. Now, I'm very intrigued.

At the very top of every page, one group was listed, so I decided they must know something very impressive about me because they wanted money to tell me about me. I figure that's not worth any money, though, because first of all, I'm not that interesting, and secondly, my neighbor would probably gladly tell anybody everything about me for free.

The second listing was my articles page here at Associated Content. That's good. I'm glad people don't have to look too far down the list for me. People don't have the attention span they used to.

Third is Charlotte Kuchinsky's article about me, okay. That's even better because I'm not having to say all those good things about myself as much.

Next were a long list of radio stations which played every conceivable kind of music. I clicked on one of those and saw they had some of my articles on a list of readings. And to encourage a number of you, I saw many AC writers included there.

Oh, look here, apparently I'm one of the remaining relatives of someone I've never heard of before. And to top it all off, I have some sisters. Mother will be glad to hear that. Maybe one of them can be the daughter she never had.

Apparently, in my sleep I reviewed jewelry creations because there's a review listed with my name. It must be some beautiful stuff, because according to this blurb, I loved it.

I also found me on something called "Fetch Spider" where I'm listed in a gambling category. Well, that's about right, because I consider most of life pretty much of a crap shoot.

Now, it's getting pretty boring, or maybe my attention span's not much better than average either. When I get to the listing where I'm listed in the same article as Brittany Spears and some topless photographs, I know Mr. Google is out of control.

All in all, it was an interesting experiment. I would encourage everyone to try it. You might not know yourself as well as you think, and if that occurs, you can always get out your money and hire those bloodhounds at the top of the page.

Source:

www.google.com