It's All About Me

Josiah blogged about an article on people checking their Google rank (that is, how many hits come up when you search for your name on Google). If I search only for “Timothy R. Butler” (which mostly guarantees mostly stuff referring to me and not someone else, I get a “rank” of 7,150… on the other hand, if I go for a more lenient search that also includes “Timothy Butler” and “Tim Butler” (which also pulls in other people's stuff, I get 18,300.

While it is somewhere in between, I would suspect, I would generally think the first search is closest to the correct number. After all, my full name is used pretty much every place, including articles, e-mail and even blog comments. I have thought about shedding some of the “formality” on blogs, but after commenting that way so long, I don't want to make things too confusing… you know? In person, virtually no one calls me anything other than “Tim,” so it would seem logical that I would go by “Tim” online too. Oh well. Y'all already know that anyway (why did I just have an unstoppable urge to say “y'all”?).

At any rate, it is interesting to see, even though it does not tell me much. What's your Google rank?