July 23, 2008

Losing the top spot on Google

I meant to mention this the other day when I Googled myself and found I had lost the top spot on Google’s search engine to a blog. (I question Google’s mixed relationship there, because it owns the blogging tool.), but today when I checked, I’ve even moved further down the line to be 5th. I’m talking about when you do a quote-less search for brad mccall. I’m number 4 when you add back in the quotes.

Yahoo’s still got me on top, so I’m good there, and so does MSN.

Perhaps it’s because of my lack of frequency of added material to the Daily Brad? Or my lack of mentioning my name – Brad McCall in my posts with relevant content? I’m number 2 when searching for “Daily Bread”, just beneath a site that I think has been using that phrase a lot longer than me, so that can’t be it. I’m still highly suspicious about Google’s blogs appearing on top, and then not in any of the other search engines. Conspiracy theories aside, I think Google may have it’s hands in too many pots to be unbiased any of them.

Comments (2)

  1. July 24, 2008
    Jonathan said...

    I’m still fifth with or without quotes on google, second on yahoo– always after that author. first page, though. cool cool. still moving up on searches for graphic design utah, which seem to be pretty broad. hm… talking about mentioning names in blog, my site comes up in a search for your name on the fifth page. cool.

  2. January 10, 2009
    Glen Graham said...

    Hey John I often wonder their is foul play. I try as often as I can to take that elusive first spot in the Google search. Some times I’m up and some times I’m way down.