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It Feels So Good to be 3
Filed under: Personal | January 16th, 2004
A birthday present from Google: I have overtaken that other guy and I am now the #3 Matt in the world. Go look at it now, because Google can be a harsh mistress. If things continue to go well I might reach #1 and have to take down all my sites, like I promised.
For those of you commenting on the phantom ping from yesterday, I actually posted something and took it down. Don’t worry, a little editing and it’ll be back.
seriocomic | January 16th, 2004 @ 4:33 am
wow!
#3 out of 10 million (give or take 20,000) - very impressive.
I wouldn’t say you are more or less deserving for that spot than ‘that other guy’, but you both definately deserve to rank so highly.
Simon Jessey | January 16th, 2004 @ 6:41 am
Hmmm. Too many Simon’s in the world for little old me to be so popular. Simon Willison gets right up there, but he is far more prolific than I.
Simon Jessey | January 16th, 2004 @ 6:43 am
Sigh. Please accept my apologies for the misuse of the apostophe. I don’t know what came over me. Too many Simons!
Sara | January 16th, 2004 @ 8:47 am
Very cool! I was wondering about the ping…thanks for clarifying that I wasn’t too insane.
Kathy | January 16th, 2004 @ 10:43 am
now why would you take all your sites down if you reach #1? you can’t do that to your loyal fans and readers, Matt! that would absolutely kill me!
David House | January 16th, 2004 @ 10:51 am
>Hmmm. Too many Simon’s in the world for little old me to be so popular. Simon Willison gets right up there, but he is far more prolific than I.
Be glad you’re not a Dave!
Matt | January 16th, 2004 @ 1:47 pm
I thank my parents every day I am not a Dave.
Simon, you have been reported to the apostrophe protection society. Be afraid.
Sara, sorry for the blank ping, or more commonly refered to as bling. Bling is like “moose” in that its plural form is the same, so in the future you can say that photomatt.net has lots of bling.
seriocomic, Kathy: thanks.
Kathy | January 16th, 2004 @ 1:52 pm
Photomatt definitely has lots of bling.
cybertoad | January 16th, 2004 @ 2:05 pm
He, he - it seems that I moved up in the Google ranks too - I am also at #3 for “Elaine”. But that’s not fair, there are far less Elaine’s than Matt’s so yours is a much greater accomplishment!
As for bling, you can bling me anytime (just don’t tell my husband)…
Matt Brubeck | January 16th, 2004 @ 4:14 pm
I have to content myself with being the number one Matt Brubeck, ahead of the cello-playing son of Dave Brubeck.
Julie | January 17th, 2004 @ 9:11 am
Congratulations! …You’re the number one Matt in my book.
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MikeyC | January 18th, 2004 @ 12:24 pm
Mike Little: “Number two Mike in the world according to Google? Shurely shome mishtake!”
When I first started my blog, I felt it was unrealistic to try and climb the Google ladder as “Mike” just because of how common a name it is. Cudos to you. At least I’m the #1 MikeyC
Lea | January 18th, 2004 @ 1:39 pm
LOL! I’m #8 Lea to be on Google. Then again, that’s another not-very-common name. But pats on the back for being even in the top ten. Yes!
Chris Burkhardt | January 19th, 2004 @ 1:19 am
Google’s description of photomatt.net: “… January 16th, 2004 4:09 am; File under: Personal. A birthday present from Google: I have overtaken that other guy and I am now the #3 Matt in the world. … ”
Hehe, you’ve already been indexed since you posted this
Charleen | January 19th, 2004 @ 8:30 am
Somehow, I’m numbers 7 (the blog) and 20 (the genealogy site). There’s a few others scattered in there, but they’re mostly due to you. On the upside, we’re number one on Mullenweg, and number 3 on Hageney. When we’re number one on Hill, I’ll be impressed
Love, C
indieb0i | January 20th, 2004 @ 12:52 pm
Haha, just had to post because I was going through the rest of your site and hadn’t hit the main page when I saw your comment about being #4. I clicked on the link and saw you had become #3. For some reason I got all excited about the prospect of letting you know that you had gained a spot. Oh well, you already figured it out on your own. Congratulations anyway!
As a side note, I couldn’t even find myself under Thom, but I’m apparantly one and only indieb0i (all 12 Google links were references to me)!
Christine | January 21st, 2004 @ 11:20 am
Way to go, Matt! Isn’t that a nice warm fuzzy feeling? And to replace the other Matt? Wow! That’s truly exciting!
Maurice Tanner | January 22nd, 2004 @ 8:32 am
Congratulations, I’m #1 but only if you know my full name hehe. I’m glad to see others out there actually welcome google.
Justin Haynes | January 24th, 2004 @ 4:14 pm
Break your promise - make us all happy. When you do actually get to number 1 you can change the subtitle of your website to “I’m feeling lucky in cards”.
Adam | January 29th, 2004 @ 1:42 am
Ack, this is awful! I was #30 for “Adam” on Google last week, and now I’m not even in the top 100! :(. So I’m gonna have to start signing my blog comments “Adam” instead of “Adam Lasnik.” Or get everyone to Google bomb my sites under my name.
Okay, yeah, that’s not a very hip or exciting GoogleBomb. Bummer.
Matt | January 29th, 2004 @ 1:46 am
Adam, you can still sign your comments with your full name, as long as “Adam” is a distinct word in the link you still get the Google-juice.