Because I really need to spend more time typing random things into Google

David Ng at the World’s Fair has come up with a new game for net-enabled procrastinators everywhere: the “I rank number one on google” meme:

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 takes a bit of effort since finding these statements takes a little trial and error, but I’m going to guess that this meme might yield some interesting insight on the blog in question.

This was actually a more time-consuming exercise than I thought it would be, since for reasons that escape me some of the more obvious combinations (like “Highly Allochthonous” or “Chris Rowan geology”) all seem to point to ye olde blog rather than the current incarnation. Still, here’s my five:


Personally, I’m not sure whether there’s any interesting conclusions that you can draw from that selection. On the other hand, I was rather amused about how appropriate the first hit for professional doom-mongers was…

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