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Goodbye, Haystack

Before I started working at Mozilla, I used to enjoy my Google-semi-anonymity.

One of the blessings of having a rather common name is that anyone trying to Google me would have to spend several hours sifting through the results.

Today I was looking at referrer stats for this blog and followed a referral link to a Google query for “Paul Kim.” Results below.

search results

This blog is #1 out of 31,800,000 results for “Paul Kim.”

What this says to me:

  • Mozilla bloggers have serious search mojo. (Ya feeling me, Asa, Tristan? :-)
  • The other Paul Kim’s on page 1 of search results are gonna have to hustle to leapfrog me. Especially the guy with the Sitting on the Toilet blog. (I swear that’s not me.)
  • I should consider going the Rodney Allen Rippy route and add a third name to differentiate my brand.

Thank you Mozilla, for the juice.

3 Comments so far

  1. marco casteleijn November 28th, 2005 8:32 am

    Eh not anymore. Unless you play piano. Maybe we have to promote you a bit more ;o)

    Marco

  2. Paul Kim November 29th, 2005 2:33 pm

    It was great while it lasted Marco (being number 1 that is). Hopefully the pianist and the Sterling Award winner are happy now. :-)

  3. jjm December 10th, 2005 1:09 am

    goes to show you what happens when you enter the ranks of the digerati