Ok, supreme geek rapture---right here!
I was over checking out this weeks ThursdayBookwork (which I'll be filling out here shortly) and saw that she blogrolls the participants on that site's sidebar, and I was on there. I made my first blogroll! Which I though was pretty cool----I'm slowly seeping into the blog culture.
And then I had a though. But I didn't know if I should dare even think it. But I did, and then I went there: google.com. Could it even be possible. I typed it in to the search, "cyberjazzdaddy" and took a deep breath and clicked Search. And lo and behold! I was there. My blog came up on a google search! I am now officially part of the fabric of contemporary human consciousness called the Internet (insert sinister laughter here).
Hmmm, I think I'm starting to sound like Steve Martin in the movie "The Jerk" when he's jumping around the filling station exclaiming "The new phonebooks are here! The new phonebooks are here! I'm in the phonebook! I am somebody!!"
Oh well. As I've said before---it's the small things, right?
Now, I recognized most all of the search results that it brought back (there were 11! Can you believe it!) because most of them were done by me. Google had picked up links back to my blog that I left in other people's comment areas. Seems de-lurking has it's fringe benefits. But then there was this one that I didn't recognize---for a blogtelevision.net. I was upset at first. I had thought the name "cyberjazzdaddy" was unique enough that I wouldn't have to worry about duplication this fast. Now here it was on this other foreign site. But then I noticed that the content it was quoting was something I had actually written. Turns out that this website picked me up because I referred to a video-log entry on another guys site called avoidinglife.com. Interesting. Google was referring to this site, referring to me, referring to him. And that's why it's called "The Web".
And at this point you may be asking yourself, "Why am I still reading this"?
And then I had a though. But I didn't know if I should dare even think it. But I did, and then I went there: google.com. Could it even be possible. I typed it in to the search, "cyberjazzdaddy" and took a deep breath and clicked Search. And lo and behold! I was there. My blog came up on a google search! I am now officially part of the fabric of contemporary human consciousness called the Internet (insert sinister laughter here).
Hmmm, I think I'm starting to sound like Steve Martin in the movie "The Jerk" when he's jumping around the filling station exclaiming "The new phonebooks are here! The new phonebooks are here! I'm in the phonebook! I am somebody!!"
Oh well. As I've said before---it's the small things, right?
Now, I recognized most all of the search results that it brought back (there were 11! Can you believe it!) because most of them were done by me. Google had picked up links back to my blog that I left in other people's comment areas. Seems de-lurking has it's fringe benefits. But then there was this one that I didn't recognize---for a blogtelevision.net. I was upset at first. I had thought the name "cyberjazzdaddy" was unique enough that I wouldn't have to worry about duplication this fast. Now here it was on this other foreign site. But then I noticed that the content it was quoting was something I had actually written. Turns out that this website picked me up because I referred to a video-log entry on another guys site called avoidinglife.com. Interesting. Google was referring to this site, referring to me, referring to him. And that's why it's called "The Web".
And at this point you may be asking yourself, "Why am I still reading this"?
posted by Will at 8:40 AM
1 Comments:
Your use of the Steve Martin imagery made me laugh. :) I actually DON'T want to be found on Google, because no one where I live knows that I blog and I like it that way. So I was pleased to learn (long after I'd started using my blog when it suddenly occurred to me to Google it) that my blog title is also the name of several porn films. I was quite a way down the list. Yay! I can still be incognito! :)
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