"Du siehst, wohin du siehst, nur Eitelkeit auf Erden."

[muckefuck]

The other day I Googled my newest invented alias, Tsubo-chan, just to see where it'd been used before. Must be a rarer name than I thought since Saturday's journal entry was already the second hit! Then, out of curiosity, I Googled "muckefuck" and found--to my surprise--that this journal is the fourth-ranked hit. (The first two are Wikipedia and Wiktionary, respectively, and the third is the website of German skateboys.) How did that happen? Who the hell is linking to this sad little excuse for a web presence?

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[pne.livejournal.com]

Other LiveJournals?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

So linking via flist counts for the purposes of the Google algorithm?

[pne.livejournal.com]

I can't say for sure.

But my LiveJournal has a fairly decent Google rank, so I wonder whether my profile or friends list contributes to other journals' Google ranks. It was more a hunch or a "could be this" than a certainty.

[luckymarty.livejournal.com]

Something like that must be happening: my lj is the first-ranked Google hit for "luckymarty". And I don't even update.

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

Google picks up LJ amazingly well, especially the larger communities but also the individual journals. Frequently linguaphiles posts made less than an hour ago will be the top hit when I try to research the answer to a question somebody poses. It's really kind of disturbing to me, and why I've removed most references to my personal life from the visible portions of my account. You can also choose to have your personal LJ not tracked by robots, but it's not foolproof, and any comments you make in other journals are of course not excluded.

The only real escape from the All-Seeing Eye is silence or blandness. Welcome to the future! :)