Sunday, November 30, 2008

Google: "Caitlyn Shuy" (free blog)

I decided as a free blog to compare what googling “Caitlyn Shuy” would come up with. I was taught way back in middle school that when searching for a specific person or phrase it was best to put it in quotes so that you didn’t get results with only one word. When I do this 28 results come up and they all relate directly to me. However they only display 18 of the results because the others are “too similar” to the links already provided. You find the same information about ice skating, WFSC, RSA, CAACURH, CR’s, and Relay for life. Additionally you get a quote from me in an article written when I was 8 years old that ironically enough is about a 10 day challenge to not watch TV, a form of surveillance. I also show up on a list of alum for my high school. I thought it was interesting that you actually found more results when you put your name in quotes then when you just googled it. What I learned in middle school was correct though. I went from 163 results from just googling my name, down to just 28 when I googled my name with quotes.

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