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Discoverability & Visibility

February 12th, 2009

Out of sheer boredom (and recalling the opening scenes of Wanted) I started typing my name in Google. The auto suggest feature of Google took me surprise. Below is a screenshot of Google’s suggestions.

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Obviously, searching for anas imtiaz, the first result was this website. Not only this blog, but my facebook profile, twitter, jaiku and imperial blog also ranked hihgly in this search result. Aur koi anas imtiaz nai hai??

Curiousity crept in and I decided to do some research on my visibility on the web. Searching for anas, my blog came up on the 4th page i.e. within the first 40 results. The search keywords anas pakistan, anas imperial and anas blog produced my blogs on the first page of the results.

The point here is not (entirely) to brag about my blog being ranked somewhat nicely on Google but the uncomfortable fact that I can be found so easily with a few clicks.

This is advantageous to an extent; I can be easily found. Yet this is also the disadvantage, I cannot hide!

This cup of tea was served by: Desultory Cerebrations


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