Ten days ago I posted an innocuous link to something about "Ivy League Dating" and mentioned "The Right Stuff" dating website. Although my referral link traffic indicated that the search engines started hitting me just a day or two after I posted, I am the #1 search result on the MSN search engine today (when searching for the term, "Ivy League Dating"). I’m on page #1 for Google. There are many people that I talk with at 21Publish that are just learning about blogs and don’t believe how blogs and blog communities affect search engines. Although it may be a passing thing in a few years, it does seem to affect the engines now. And the trend does seem like it is going to stay with all of the search engine investments going on.
I have got to put up a hipper picture of myself on my blog if I’m going to be in this business.
Update (8/20/05): Now if you really want Ivy League sexy, you need to check out venture capitalist Brad Feld who noticed that the number of shares in secondary offering for Google are the same as eight significant digits of Pi.
Brad may have “discovered Pi” on his own, but by the time he posted it on his blog, Bambi’s article “Why Google is selling a piece of pi” appeared on Marketwatch.
Rainman and John Nash come to my mind when I see stuff like this.