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Why do it yourself, when a computer can do it for you?

posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 11:50am on 09/01/2006 under , , ,
After all, anything can be automated.

Even something as self-centred as egosurfing. Yes, you can now "Know Your Place", as egosurf.org's tagline so neatly puts it, at just the click of a button. No more typing your name into Google or Yahoo!, or even MSN, del.icio.us or Technorati.

Fill in your name, some appropriate URLs, and you can quickly see just what the web thinks (or doesn't think) of you.

Ever the happy guinea pig, I tried it out.

Apparently my egopoints (whatever meaningless number they are) are:

enginerankingego points
google.com1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th7899
yahoo.com1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 9th8298
msn.com1st, 2nd, and 3rd2692
del.icio.us2nd, 3rd, and 6th2362
technorati.com7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th7599

A nifty tool, and quite fun watching it pop up the results - the whole thing is a fairly decent piece of AJAX code.
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posted by [personal profile] andrewducker at 12:00pm on 09/01/2006
A mere 3911 points on Google. Clearly I must track down the other Andrew Ducker's and destroy them all!
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"The Spaceship"

posted by [identity profile] a-cubed.livejournal.com at 07:06pm on 09/01/2006
Did you hear the BBC 7 show The Spaceship last year? It had a clone character Clive 55 who eventually justified being just called "Clive".

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posted by [identity profile] etriganuk.livejournal.com at 01:01pm on 09/01/2006
It's slightly odd. It thinks I'm sixth on Google when I'm fourth, or third if you surround me in quotes.
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posted by [identity profile] nerdware.livejournal.com at 01:19pm on 09/01/2006
Anything you can specify can be automated. Unfortunately, there are things we'd like a machine to do that we can't specify. (Never mind the things that only interest pure mathematicians, like proving theorems. Consider the problem of enumerating all real numbers. Even a Turing machine can't do that.)

E.g. give a formal specification for spam...turn it into code and prove it correct...solve the halting problem.
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 01:31pm on 09/01/2006
Perhaps I should have put the smiley in after all...
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posted by [identity profile] nerdware.livejournal.com at 01:47pm on 09/01/2006
Perhaps. ;)
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posted by [identity profile] palatinate.livejournal.com at 01:45pm on 09/01/2006
Sadly I only *total* 869 ... am I a non-entity or what? (and only 47th on Google). Or maybe I just need to change my name to Homer P. Duckpuddle...
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posted by [personal profile] vampwillow at 01:45pm on 09/01/2006
definitely interesting ...
google.com 1st, 2nd, 6th, 6th, 7th, 7th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th 9047
yahoo.com 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 14th, 15th, 15th, and 20th, and 20th 6783
msn.com 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th, and 9th 5425
although it would be difficult to give a full list of my valid target domains ...

might play more later ;-P
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posted by [identity profile] dougs.livejournal.com at 02:11pm on 09/01/2006
google.com15th, and 29th1969
yahoo.com6th, 14th, and 31st1778
msn.com8th, and 10th1311
del.icio.usnowhere0
technorati.comnowhere0


Some work there to be done, I think. I could put more pages into the "your blog and stuff" fields.
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posted by [personal profile] mdlbear at 03:37pm on 09/01/2006
8631 on google using "stephen savitzky, steve savitzky" looking for links to "thestarport.com, thestarport.org, places.to, mdlbear.livejournal.com, livejournal.com/~mdlbear". Doesn't appear to have looked anyplace else.
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Ego pointless...

posted by [identity profile] hunkymouse.livejournal.com at 05:15pm on 09/01/2006
Well, I tried it, and discovered it really does make a difference how many sites you list. If I list just NewsWireless.net I get a modest 6,000 odd. Stuff in all the things I write for, and it gets hotter, with the graphical tachometer showing redline in a couple of places!

www.kewney.co.uk/pix/egosurf/ego.jpg shows the ghastly 'truth' about someone's ego. Who is this Guy Kewney anyway...
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posted by [identity profile] a-cubed.livejournal.com at 07:05pm on 09/01/2006
I'm not particularly impressed. If I put my name (andrew adams, no quotes or anything) into Google, my web page at work is the first hit that comes up, but egosurf.com gives google.com a "zero score" for my name and various synonyms for my home page.

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