This is a milestone in the history of the benjiblog. You see, when I first began this blog I felt like I was really out there on the internet for people to find, but was disappointed when my google searches came up empty. I would copy whole paragraphs from this blog, and paste them into the google search box expecting to be the number one result. When this didn't happen I set out to figure out how google worked. Here's a summary of how google works from this source. They use a top-secret algorithm called page-rank, which incorporates 3 key factors:
Frequency and location of the key words for which one is searching
How long the web page has existed
Number of other web pages that link to the web page in question.
There you have it. I was naively expecting to be found when I had only fulfilled the first requirement. Apparently four months is enough time for google to consider me legit, and there might possibly be a few links to this page floating around out there.
Bonus - when I google "Benji Somebody Else", the first three hits are really referring to me, then there's some unrelated hits, then it cites this blog's first post where I explained the meaning behind the address and happened to write Benji and Somebody Else in the same paragraph. Note- In a couple weeks I'm expecting this post to be up there on the list because I keep typing Benji Somebody Else (frequency and location people, frequency and location). Benji Somebody Else.
On a completely unrelated but nonetheless interesting note, I had ants crawling on my ears today. I have no idea how this happened. Around 9:00 this moring I'm sitting there doing dentistry and feel one crawling on my ear. I took off my glove and brushed it away, only to have the same thing happen 10 minutes later. Then around 3:00 this afternoon it happened again! I was in the middle of polishing up a filling I had just placed and really didn't want to take time out of the procedure to take off my gloves, brush the ant away, and re-glove; and I definitely didn't want to touch my own ear with slobbery gloves, (gross!) so I just kept working while the little bugger crawled around for two minutes and bit me three times. I don't think I've ever been so angry at a single ant in my entire life. Maybe someday when I'm working in my own office and have an assistant, I can simply call out "Ant" and she can brush it off of my ear. Someday.
Update - It's only been three minutes and already this post is the number two link for a google search of "Benji Hadfield". I guess I'm really somebody now.
Oh Benji. Having bugs in my ears is my absolute WORST fear. I know the ants weren't actually in your ears, but that's way too close for my comfort. I would have been screaming and jumping around the room and no amount of nasty slobber would have made me pause to take off those gloves. You're like a man of steel or something...
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Update - It's only been three minutes and already this post is the number two link for a google search of "Benji Hadfield". I guess I'm really somebody now.
I'm guessing a queen ant took up residence in your brain.
Oh Benji. Having bugs in my ears is my absolute WORST fear. I know the ants weren't actually in your ears, but that's way too close for my comfort. I would have been screaming and jumping around the room and no amount of nasty slobber would have made me pause to take off those gloves. You're like a man of steel or something...
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