My website and blog don’t show up for a lot of search terms on Google or Yahoo. However, the few that I feel should work are my first and last names and the blog name.

Also see update below.

So I went ahead and searched and analyzed some results on various search engines I use. Results are below …
Before I forget … a very critical discovery … MSN searches gave spaces.msn.com pages a higher priority. Yahoo searches gave Geocities pages a higher priority (Yahoo owns Geocities)… thats scary! These pages show up on the 10 results of the parent search engine. But not on the first 3-5 pages of any other search engines!!! Crazy!

Anyways, continuing …The search results are tabulated in the following page … click on to view them all …

Searching for Logic2Go …

Search Engine Rank # Num. Spots in top 10 Findings?
Google 1 8 out of 10 Logic2Go on Wikipedia? Not me
Yahoo 1 8 out of 10 Logic2Go on Wikipedia? Not me
MSN 1 9 out of 9 It’s all me!
Ask.com 1 10 out of 10 All me here too!
AllTheWeb.com 1 8 out of 10 Logic2Go on Wikipedia again?!

Now, lets check for Bhansali …

Search Engine Rank # Num. Spots in top 10 Findings?
Google 11 0 out of 10 Bhansali Engineering Polymers?
Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Swell dude, great director.
Bhansali Group?
Bhansali Bright Bars?
Bhansali Aluminium Too many business types! Good work!
Yahoo 39 Thirty-fracking-nine? It’s all Sanjay Leela Bhansali at the top
Sanjay Leela Bhansali on GreenCine
Sanjay Leela Bhansali on Wikipedia
Dr. Shekhar Bhansali at USF On page 2
Dr. S BhansaliA Medical type this one!
Sanjay Leela Bhansali on ApunKachoice He’s all over the place!
MSN 21 0 out of 10,20 even Bhansali & Co.
Bhansali Group
Roma Bhansali Cool portfolio. Is she like a cousin?! :)
Roma Bhansali Looks like websquatters. Tough luck!
Bhansali Creations Furniture? Atleast they have decent stuff
Ask.com 19 After 39, thisis a relief Sanjay Leela on Wikipedia #1 again
Dr. Shekhar Bhansali at USF IIT grad!
To many Sanjay Leela Bhansali pages!
AllTheWeb.com 44 ??? Suddenly, 39 doesn’tsound so bad :( Ghalla & Bhansali, Chartered Accountants Marwaris after all!
Bhansali at Stanford on Page 3, thats a new one
Krish Bhansali at MSState Mostly businesses, professors or the director.

Now, cross my fingers, lets check for Vinit …

Search Engine Rank # Num. Spots in top 10 Findings?
Google 4 2 out of 10 Vinit from Sa Re Ga Ma The dude from the TV Show?
Vinit lost Sa Re Ga Ma Should have won :(
Dedicated to Vinit Singh Heck, I see a user called I_Love_Vinit :)
Vinit.Net Been around for a while, Italian Food Guide
Learn C/C++ A tutor?
Yahoo 11 Not evenfirst page? Charles-Leon Vinit From the 1800’s? Wow!
Vinit Singh on Wikipedia So he can sing.
MSN 4 1 out of 8 Vinit Nijhawan A startup guy’s site!
Ma Prem Vinit A Ceramic Sculptur!
Vinit Satyavrata Photography Some good stuff!
Vinit Bhudiraja’s India website Lots of info about India
Ask.com 6 1 out of 10 Vinit Engineering Vinit Patel?!
Vinit Engineering in Pune Too many “Vinit” Engineers
Vinit Electronics I asked for less engineers, but this is ridiculousVinit Nijhawan entrepreneur at Fotki Yay! The startup guy
AllTheWeb.com 12 This sucks Some of the same Vinit.net, Vinit.it and Vinit Singh pages.

Overall … search results suck when they are not what you want them to be.

Update: These results come close on the heels of Arwind Anomalizer‘s review of how the new name is better for his personal branding on the web. But he’s got a decent deal with the anomalizer thingy … wtf do I do with Logic2Go? Imagine I show up at his engagement some event and he has to introduce me as “This is my dear friend logic2go” sounds like I’m his C-3PO.

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