Google Search Tip
If you're searching for yourself on
Google, remember to enclose your name in quotation marks to make it a phrase search. The results you get will be more relevant, which means that I am really posting about you. For example:
Brian Noggle
will return a boatload of pages which could include Brian
Smith playing football against his high school's nemesis Noggle
. Werd, check it: Brian Moquist and Nathan Noggle (no relation) went to Baylor; Brian P. McCarthy and Roy Harris Noggle are AIA members in Arizona; and Brian Harvey wrote an article in which he quoted J. C. Noggle. All of these results are worthless, and could be winnowed from the search.
"Brian Noggle"
, on the other hand, narrows the search to people named Brian Noggle, but I've never, I swear, played on a Thursday Night League, participated in a cowboy jamboree, or attended high school this century. But if you Googled "Brian Noggle"
, you'd get all of these things as well as my Web tracks.
"Brian J. Noggle"
, on the other hand, poses a direct hit, as people from way back who've Googled me have undoubtedly discovered. I do write this blog, I did write white papers for MetaMatrix, wrote a skit for a theatre company I used to work with, got published in this magazine, and tried to convince myself and others that role-playing games offered good research potential for writers.
Just a thought for you fellows in the printed media who are Googling yourselves to see what people on the Web are saying about you. You know I mean you,
Samus Aran naked
.