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Sunday, November 8, 2009
Google Search Engine Flaw Needs Fixed
Posted Friday, November 21, 2008, at 9:48 AM
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As I have noted in a previous blog, one of the reasons I've decided to put the figurative pen-to-paper is to correct what is obviously some flaw in the Google Search Engine.

Prior to last week, when you Googled "Brad Hollerbach," a measly 26 results was all that showed up.

I figured that this couldn't be right. That there must be some bug in the Google Search Engine programming that was overlooking artifacts on the internet that contained my name. It didn't matter that I haven't really actually published anything on the internet prior to this blog. There just should have been more than 26 results.

I supposed it also doesn't help that the only other "Brad Hollerbach" in the country - he lives in California and is a couple years older than me -- doesn't appear to be too active on the internet.

So I guess if I want to boost the Google Search Results for my name, I'm gonna have to do it myself.

I feel that if "Rush Limbaugh" can rack up almost 4.7 million search results on Google, so can I!

But what I can't figure out is how "Ghenghis Khan" has managed to generate 1,970,000 GSRs. The guy has been dead 800 years and he still dwarfs me in search results! Even the misspelling of his name has 102,000 GSRs! Considering how much he traveled, I wonder which cellular internet company he used? I'm kind of partial to Verizon, but I don't know if they have any service in Mongolia.

Anyhow, I realize this is going to take a little time. Rush didn't get his 4.6 million GSRs overnight. Plus I'm sure he has a staff of minions dedicated to boosting his GSRs on a daily basis. I don't have a staff, just me. So I figure it will take me through the end of the year to get up to the Rush level of search results. Possibly January.

And so, to make the tracking of my progress a little easier, I've created a handy chart to compare my progress against others. Hopefully, they don't catch wind that I'm trying to boost my Google Search Results or they might start blogging too.

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Cute, Brad!

And to think I was rather dismayed to discover, right up near the top of a Google search-result list (on a particular subject of interest) a Speak Out comment that I'd posted at one time on that subject. That's scary ... sort of.

-- Posted by gurusmom on Mon, Nov 24, 2008, at 1:27 PM

Change your name to Barack Obama. You'll win the competition, and have a great starter line in bars.

"So, I'm Barack Obama, and (fill in whatever bs you want here, you'll have them at Barack...).

-- Posted by John R Cash on Mon, Nov 24, 2008, at 5:08 PM


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Brad Hollerbach is the Director of Information Technology for the Southeast Missourian. He writes this blog primarily for his own amusement and to parody the absurdities of the world we live in. He lives with his wife and cat in Cape.

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