Googling Myself
Illegal In 37 States And The District Of ColumbiaI got an e-mail from the Queen Of The Laugh Riots, BlondeChampagne, recently thanking me for linking her.
Well, you're welcome. Now everybody go over there and wish her a happy belated birthday.
She mentioned a practice she calls "periodic self-googling." I haven't done that in a while; let's see what we find:
Google for "Mike Marchand"
First item is from The Politix Group, whom I briefly wrote columns for.
Second and third are not me, but #4 is one of my "Mark Steyn Is A Genius" posts.
A couple of mentions of a Mike Marchand from a Native American tribe follow, and a Mike Marchand who sells real estate in Colorado, then you get to some of my writings for The Observer, The University Of Notre Dame's campus newspaper. (The first Google entry is actually for a Letter To The Editor from one of my more rabid detractors.)
Then there's a Mike Marchand who's a national champion wakeboarder, one who works with the New Hampshire Fish & Game Department (why are all the other Mike Marchands so much more interesting than me??), some more miscellaneous Mike Marchands, then more of me: some of my columns have evidently landed in some online library clearinghouse. Pay to read me? What a ripoff!
Blah blah blah, media engineer this, cross-country runner that, WOW, some of my columns are on PBS' web site. Who put them there??
Calgary Mineral Exploration Group, Institute For International And Comparative Law; okay, now they're starting to dullen out a little . . . hey, there's a Mike Marchand who's a Major General and Deputy Judge Advocate who was part of the U.S. Army investigation into Abu Ghraib. Now that's fascinating.
But not me. Let's see, there's the comments I left at the Born Again Democrats web site and The Irish Trojan's blog. Another blog comment by someone who's not me, but has the same name as me and goes to Notre Dame. I actually met him once; it's very strange meeting someone who has the same name as you. Parallel-dimension weirdness.
"Mike Marchand's Auto Palace Auto Cleaning, Titusville, PA" . . . not so much . . . there's someone who jacked one of my columns but at least credited me with the work. Another, too, but since they're ND Alumni I don't mind a bit. Then there's a weird ghost-chaser: Google's excerpt of this site used the beginning of my post about David Von Drehle but it doesn't appear anywhere on the site. Odd.
No, wait, it's on this result, too: notice the familiar layout? They obviously use some sort of script that harvests search keywords from other sites (in this case, my disagreement with Bill Whittle's Silent America) and directs it into search term codes in its web pages. Or something like that.
Here's a professor from Saint Mary's, the all-female sister school to Notre Dame (and BlondeChampagne's alma mater), who included one of my columns in his syllabus. No word on whether it was for praise or ridicule.
Here's actor/model Mike Marchand's portfolio. His résumé is much better than mine.
So, all in all, nothing terribly new there; no Instalanches I somehow missed. And when I Google "marchand chronicles", I get a very sad list. A couple of my posts and some auto-generating trackbacks. No links. Bummer.
(This means get on it, BlondeChampagne. :D )
posted by Marsh @ 4:25 AM
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