The Daily Ping

FROM: Ryan
DATE: Thursday December 4, 2003 -- 9:20:27 am

It's a worthless measurement, especially for common names. HR departments need to spend more time actually talking to applicants and less time trying to make up meaningless statistics.

My "Google Number" for my name is pretty low, but when I add my middle initial into the mix, it multiplies six-fold.

FROM: Ryan
DATE: Thursday December 4, 2003 -- 9:34:42 am

By the way, I bet both Matt and Chris have very high Google numbers.

FROM: Chris [E-Mail]
DATE: Thursday December 4, 2003 -- 10:41:43 am

89,600

FROM: Greg
DATE: Thursday December 4, 2003 -- 10:52:39 am

Very surprising. My number is only 396.

FROM: Rob [E-Mail]
DATE: Thursday December 4, 2003 -- 11:06:51 am

If I go by Robert, it's 49,900. But if I go by Rob, it's 191. And the first hit is my own page. :) If I throw my middle initial in with Robert, it's a mere 128. Oddly enough, a lot of those seem to really be me.

FROM: Dave Walls [E-Mail]
DATE: Thursday December 4, 2003 -- 2:07:34 pm

I agree with Ryan -- It's a pretty pointless stat. That said, "Dave Walls" turns up 925 times, "David Walls" turns up 2,700.

It's funny, because a lot of the hits that come up are old Pings that I've commented on, and it picks up my name..

FROM: Robert [E-Mail]
DATE: Thursday December 4, 2003 -- 5:48:45 pm

I scored a 21. My Google Number and I are hitting the bar later.

FROM: Matt
DATE: Thursday December 4, 2003 -- 9:43:31 pm

When I typed in "Matt Wright" I came up with 463,000. Boo-Ya!!!

FROM: elwood
DATE: Thursday December 4, 2003 -- 10:43:34 pm

106,000

FROM: sheryl kirkland
DATE: Friday December 5, 2003 -- 9:59:31 am

i think that you should put a picture of the oldest computer on the site it would be much better!

FROM: Ryan
DATE: Friday December 5, 2003 -- 10:05:52 am

i think you should put a brain in your skull it would be much better!

FROM: Elizabeth
DATE: Tuesday December 9, 2003 -- 4:11:37 am

Mine is "6".

I must be mysterious.

FROM: Robbo
DATE: Tuesday December 9, 2003 -- 3:51:31 pm

Apparently, I'm not even a real person. My name failed to come up with even ONE lousy hit...