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#1 on Google!

Category: Weblogs
Posted on: October 24, 2007 2:21 PM, by PZ Myers

The World's Fair has a new meme: find the terms that return your blog as the first hit. Here is the overview:

I'd like to suggest a meme, where the premise is that you will attempt to find 5 statements, which if you were to type into google (preferably google.com, but we'll take the other country specific ones if need be), you'll find that you are returned with your blog as the number one hit.

This is easy.

I like the first one. Nobody can spell "Pharyngula" and most have a hard time pronouncing it, so I just tell people to google the two letters "PZ", and there I am.

The second is obvious.

The third is a little surprising: it returns very few links. I thought it would be a much more common term.

The fourth and fifth…I just looked at the common search terms that bring people here.

As Janet suggests, your search results may vary.

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#1

Posted by: Blake Stacey | October 24, 2007 2:25 PM

Well, I'm still on top for computers internet blog.

#2

Posted by: PZ Myers | October 24, 2007 2:31 PM

You are truly the lord of the computers internet blogs, Blake.

#3

Posted by: Blake Stacey | October 24, 2007 2:40 PM

Moo hoo ha ha.

#4

Posted by: Ferrous Patella | October 24, 2007 2:44 PM

"Chez Watt"

#5

Posted by: Tatarize | October 24, 2007 2:55 PM

"nobody has resorted to cannibalism"

#6

Posted by: Andrew | October 24, 2007 3:05 PM

You should have tried to google Pharyngula but spelled incorrectly.

I tried a few that brought you back as the main hit:
pharnygula
pharngula
pharygula

#7

Posted by: Bob L | October 24, 2007 3:08 PM

When you are number #1 hit on Google "tentacle sex" search, then Phargnula has arrived.

Actually, when porn sites try steeling your' site name, that's when you really have arrived.

#8

Posted by: dcwp | October 24, 2007 3:13 PM

So do the words in the phrases have to be mutually exclusive?

So far I've got:

* It's um a cliticization
* bowling PB baby
* abstemious cliticization

I guess it would help if I had updated the blog in the past year or so...

#9

Posted by: Steven Alleyn | October 24, 2007 3:16 PM

"Steven Alleyn" (my pseudonym) seems to do a pretty good job.
"Montrealer's view" works too
"Moopthas" works very well - go figure
"pauline marois se represent anglophone" is probably my favourite
"Rushing to Get things Done" is the title of one of my blog posts...

#10

Posted by: Colin M | October 24, 2007 3:17 PM

One of the searches that leads to my site being #1 on Google is "LOLctopus", which is completely due to the Friday cephalopod of a couple months ago.

Other searches for which I'm the first hit include: "snowflake chronology" and "robot python generator".

#11

Posted by: Craig | October 24, 2007 3:24 PM

Well, it's my home page and not my blog, but it never ceases to amaze me that I'm the #1 google hit for the word "it's".

#12

Posted by: John McKay | October 24, 2007 3:25 PM

I made number one for:

"Nazi Yeti in flying saucers"
"Nazi mammoth"
"frozen mammoth penis"
"nude photos of Ann Coulter"

I truly have a classy blog.

#13

Posted by: rjb | October 24, 2007 3:27 PM

Hey PZ, you also get ALL of the billing (either directly or indirectly) on the first page of results for "random biological ejaculations". Although I'm sure you'd be pretty far down the list if you only searched on the last term of that phrase.

#14

Posted by: Doc Bill | October 24, 2007 3:34 PM

My claim to fame is "rent a snake".

Go figure.

#15

Posted by: No One of Consequence | October 24, 2007 3:38 PM

I posted mine -

* mosquito asparagus
* CASEY LUSKIN IS A QUOTE MINING CRACKPOT
* EGI news vampire
* Gil Le Bell
* Whack Job Anti-Science nutcase

#16

Posted by: Donalbain | October 24, 2007 3:54 PM

However, none of those are STATEMENTS. They are just words or phrases. I want complete sentences Pee Zed!

#17

Posted by: robbrown | October 24, 2007 4:07 PM

Hey thanks to you linking my article last week PZ, I am now tops for:
evolution fundamentalist religion

Sweet.

#18

Posted by: zeekster | October 24, 2007 4:18 PM

I have no clue why my personal blog about nothing was the #2 google result for tuna tarragon for the longest time.

#19

Posted by: BobC | October 24, 2007 4:21 PM

pz and the I'm Feeling Lucky button works, but my pz myers bookmark on my iGoogle homepage is even faster.

#20

Posted by: King Aardvark | October 24, 2007 4:28 PM

I posted my list too.

1. King Aardvark - #2 is a company called King Aardvark Web Design, and their logo is kind of similar to mine. But it's not me.

2. high school religion classes - from a popular early post of mine included in CotG.

3. John Tesh kick in the nuts - though, honestly, any name I've ever mentioned + kick in the nuts leads to my blog as the #1 hit. This is from a couple of posts about my contempt for Christian pop music.

4. behe dawkins pissed - a ficticious scrap between the two authors.

5. apostles look like morons half the time - a Christian troll dropped by and we had a brief argument about this - not whether they do look like morons (they do) but about the implications of them looking like morons.

#21

Posted by: Geoff Arnold | October 24, 2007 4:41 PM

I'm still #1 for my name, "Geoff Arnold", even though there are a couple of other Geoffs chasing me. More important, I'm #1 for the phrase "liberal atheist dreamer"!

#22

Posted by: K. Signal Eingang | October 24, 2007 4:41 PM

I used to be the #1 hit for the word "euphemism", but now I've been bumped to #3 by Wikipedia and some dictionary site.

Still #1 for "euphemism generator".

Also #1 for "Brian Eno to the Rescue!" but only if it's in quotes.

#23

Posted by: Pete | October 24, 2007 4:48 PM

"boring things"

...damn, that really sucks, doesn't it?

#24

Posted by: Martha | October 24, 2007 5:10 PM

* Seattle Fingersmith door prize
* Martha's Undead Removal

I'm somewhat motivated now to write an article for the sole purpose of capturing really odd phrases.

#26

Posted by: Dennis | October 24, 2007 5:59 PM

I'm still first for:

-mental midgets like Dinesh D'Souza
-closeted gimp-suit wearing evangelicals
-Professor Dawkins hugs like a grizzly
-It's a Shame There's No Such Thing As Hell

But seem to have slipped to second place for "victim of an evil ideology" :(

#27

Posted by: cbutterb | October 24, 2007 6:00 PM

Here's a few more for PZ:

Caledonian ejaculations
Dumbski zebrafish
Homosexual squid
Godless liberal octopus
Friday cephalopod

#28

Posted by: VWXYNot? | October 24, 2007 6:24 PM

I'm quite proud of this one: reasons not to believe in lies about evolution

Less so for this one: solutions for a hairy back

Someone just found me with hobbit porno video, but thankfully I was not #1.

#29

Posted by: slim | October 24, 2007 7:20 PM

Well, I'm first for:

commie-pinko blackbelt
Fuck you, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Cheney Nosferatu Helluva Halloween
better fish perforated horse condoms
holy fuckinoly

#30

Posted by: Daisy Bond | October 24, 2007 7:32 PM

Here's mine. "Healthy human flesh alternative" and "our descent into madness," among others.

#31

Posted by: Stupid Reality | October 24, 2007 11:42 PM

I got a few obvious ones to start with:

-Stupid Reality (No great surprise there)
-Stupid Kirk Cameron Pain (Hehe)
-My Brain Exploding
-Atheist Kung Fu

But then I realized that because I use so much sarcasm in my arguments, a lot of people were getting my blog through search terms that were the opposite of what I was saying. With this in mind I also got number one for:

-Stupid Reality Believes in Biblical Literalism
-Stupid Reality Contributes to Global Warming
-Stupid Reality has Broken the Internet

But my personal favorite would have to be:

-Stupid Reality is Pope of the Catholic Church

Hehe.


#32

Posted by: Chris R. | October 24, 2007 11:59 PM

You have no idea how happy it makes me to be the first one to mention this:

PYGMIES AND DWARFS

#33

Posted by: Pat McDowell | October 25, 2007 1:24 AM

Did you mean to spell it "evilutionist"? maybe it would return more hits as "evolutionist"?

#34

Posted by: Search.yahoo.com | October 25, 2007 4:54 AM

I'm now in China!But I can't login Search.yahoo.com,It comes out the Baidu.com;What's the pity of Chinese.
Then I find some infomation about the Chinese comments linke: http://www.jiblog.net/?p=29

#35

Posted by: Kristjan Wager | October 25, 2007 9:28 AM

Should I be worried that 'abyss stupidity' brings my blog up as the first hit? (this post to be more precise)

#36

Posted by: C. L. Hanson | October 25, 2007 1:30 PM

Interestingly, my review comes up #1 for philip pullman atheist sex. And I've been getting this query (or variants of it) a lot more frequently lately. Maybe because of the movie?

#37

Posted by: Susan | October 25, 2007 5:41 PM

A year or so ago, mine came up first for a search of
- pictures underpants

(no quotes)

I'd written about the Underpants of Science Museum at UT Austin and posted some pictures.

My spot was soon to be supplanted though, by pictures of Saddam in his undies.

#38

Posted by: Cuttlefish | October 25, 2007 5:59 PM

*"Their octopus gods" (must be in quotes, and must have "their". *sigh*)

*hippocampally organized memories (cool, no quotes--357 hits)

*Einstein Poseur Wrong (15,100 hits)

*"Just a little bit faster than light" (without quotes, 1,720,000 hits, and I am nowhere near the top. With quotes, I am number one!!!....of two.)

And the my crowning achievement....

*Just like it says in Genesis (No quotes needed! 2,020,000 hits, and I am first!)

#39

Posted by: Kent Kauffman | October 25, 2007 7:34 PM

Hmm...I'm first for "defending the sociopathic lifestyle."

#40

Posted by: Cuttlefish | October 25, 2007 10:06 PM

Oddly enough, "your safeword is amen", with or without quotes, returns at least 4 sites before me...each quoting me.

Oh, well.

#41

Posted by: Moonbeam McQueen | October 28, 2007 1:24 PM

This was fun! Here are some of mine:

Ann Coulter vomit

Mister Rogers seduction

my brother is a liar

elfin Siouxsie Sioux

pee poop and penises

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