Flotsam and Jetsam

Flotsam and Jetsam

Aug 12 / 5:17am

Googling myself

Googlingmyself

I'm now one step closer to controlling the top Google result for my name.
 
Zoom Info used to be #4. I had never used the service, but it had assembled a profile for me via web indexing and its PageRank was considerably higher than mine. I claimed my Zoom Info profile and deleted all of the information it had, which caused it to stop serving a page for me. Eventually, it dropped out of the Google results.
 
I tried to move stackoverflow out of the results by changing my username from denton-gentry to dgentry. Unfortunately Googlebot had already indexed denton-gentry and stackoverflow will respond to any name for user=4761, so it will never drop out of the index.
 
I don't know why FriendFeed appears as #2. I'm certainly very active on friendfeed, but my full name "Denton Gentry" doesn't appear on that page.
 
Linkedin is #3, and it is so useful to have my full name there that I'm going to leave it.
 
Of course it could all come crashing down if I say the wrong thing to a net.celebrity at the wrong time. I'll endeavor not to do that.

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