Comments on: ClaimID: Your Online Identity http://elliottback.com/wp/claimid-your-online-identity/ Internet & Technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:01:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dhffgh http://elliottback.com/wp/claimid-your-online-identity/#comment-290828 dhffgh Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:00:15 +0000 http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/06/07/claimid-your-online-identity/#comment-290828 пнгшлнешлнгщ пнгшлнешлнгщ

]]> By: johnon.com » Blog Archive » “We’re part of a much larger conversation” http://elliottback.com/wp/claimid-your-online-identity/#comment-177959 johnon.com » Blog Archive » “We’re part of a much larger conversation” Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:46:48 +0000 http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/06/07/claimid-your-online-identity/#comment-177959 [...] If you’re not a search person, skip the rest of this. It might be misleading. You may misread it for cynicism or think I am being negative. Please leave now and don’t allow yourself to be so deceived. But if you understand search, what the heck is ClaimID? Third party links page a-la Bruce Clay circa 2001, but executed overtly and as a business model? Bottom feeding on people with very unique names, who think this is the answer to their SEO/PR problem, and listing the faithful as “favorite examples in the wild“? Look at those names…Brian Benzinger, Stowe Boyd, Ottmar Liebert, Alex Muntada, Patrick Cormier, Derek Punsalan. It doesn’t get much more unique than some of these. They cna rank themselves with a small handful of links… internals even! It’s not like their non-web offline citizens… these are all bloggers! Link bait sure, but as a company? Building a community of followers, sure, but ones who could be enlightened with a pen light? At first I thought it was a back door way to build a resume site, but there are too many blog posts, dutifuly commented by The Creators, for a bait  ‘n switch like that. This is a pea grean and light blue, rounded-corner grab at something for sure. But what? [...] [...] If you’re not a search person, skip the rest of this. It might be misleading. You may misread it for cynicism or think I am being negative. Please leave now and don’t allow yourself to be so deceived. But if you understand search, what the heck is ClaimID? Third party links page a-la Bruce Clay circa 2001, but executed overtly and as a business model? Bottom feeding on people with very unique names, who think this is the answer to their SEO/PR problem, and listing the faithful as “favorite examples in the wild“? Look at those names…Brian Benzinger, Stowe Boyd, Ottmar Liebert, Alex Muntada, Patrick Cormier, Derek Punsalan. It doesn’t get much more unique than some of these. They cna rank themselves with a small handful of links… internals even! It’s not like their non-web offline citizens… these are all bloggers! Link bait sure, but as a company? Building a community of followers, sure, but ones who could be enlightened with a pen light? At first I thought it was a back door way to build a resume site, but there are too many blog posts, dutifuly commented by The Creators, for a bait  ‘n switch like that. This is a pea grean and light blue, rounded-corner grab at something for sure. But what? [...]

]]> By: Alex http://elliottback.com/wp/claimid-your-online-identity/#comment-109352 Alex Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:00:01 +0000 http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/06/07/claimid-your-online-identity/#comment-109352 Hey Elliot! Came across your website while ego-surfing. I actually contacted the claimID guys a weeks ago concerning the ranking of claimID profiles. Every once in a while, my claimID page would not turn up on the first search page (sometimes not at all). Here's their response: Google maintains a distributed "copy" of its index over its hundreds of thousands (possibly millions) of servers. At any one time, the index on one server may not be the same as the index on another - especially as new stuff is being indexed. Generally, it will take a little while for the index to normalize over all of Google - what you're probably seeing is an artifact of that process. So basically the answer is this - Google knows about your page, but it's trying to work out how to index it over all machines. It will come back, it will just take a little time. The best way to ensure the page shows up is to link to it - so if you have a webpage or blog, make sure you're linking to it. Hey Elliot!
Came across your website while ego-surfing.
I actually contacted the claimID guys a weeks ago concerning the ranking of claimID profiles. Every once in a while, my claimID page would not turn up on the first search page (sometimes not at all).
Here’s their response:

Google maintains a distributed “copy” of its index over its hundreds of thousands (possibly millions) of servers. At any one time, the index on one server may not be the same as the index on another – especially as new stuff is being indexed. Generally, it will take a little while for the index to normalize over all of Google – what you’re probably seeing is an artifact of that process.

So basically the answer is this – Google knows about your page, but it’s trying to work out how to index it over all machines. It will come back, it will just take a little time. The best way to ensure the page shows up is to link to it – so if you have a webpage or blog, make sure you’re linking to it.

]]> By: cibbuano http://elliottback.com/wp/claimid-your-online-identity/#comment-96592 cibbuano Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:29:03 +0000 http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/06/07/claimid-your-online-identity/#comment-96592 it's a good idea... there's a lot of misidentification on the web these days... it's fun to see who else is running around with your name, tho. In my case, there are quite a few women with my name... it’s a good idea… there’s a lot of misidentification on the web these days…

it’s fun to see who else is running around with your name, tho. In my case, there are quite a few women with my name…

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