Search Rankings
Searching for yourself online can find some interesting stuff. I
did a search for 'stevex' on the major search engines, to see what
they'd find.
Google, as expected, found my blog.
Yahoo found my epinions profile as the first hit. This is
interesting because I haven't used epinions in years, and the only
thing that links to it are other epinions pages. Paid placement?
MSN found my blog as #1, the Restaurant Thing as #2 (not bad), and then
http://www.stevex.com as #3. The third one is a placeholder site
some spammer bought, so it makes no sense to include it that high up in
rankings.
Pretty simple test, but Google clearly wins.
(That #8 link on Google, "Rate My Body", that's not me!)