<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item><title>Search Rankings</title><description>Searching for yourself online can find some interesting stuff.&amp;nbsp; I&#13;
did a search for 'stevex' on the major search engines, to see what&#13;
they'd find.&lt;br&gt;&#13;
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Google, as expected, found my blog.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&#13;
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Yahoo found my epinions profile as the first hit.&amp;nbsp; This is&#13;
interesting because I haven't used epinions in years, and the only&#13;
thing that links to it are other epinions pages.&amp;nbsp; Paid placement?&lt;br&gt;&#13;
&lt;br&gt;&#13;
MSN found my blog as #1, the Restaurant Thing as #2 (not bad), and then&#13;
http://www.stevex.com as #3.&amp;nbsp; The third one is a placeholder site&#13;
some spammer bought, so it makes no sense to include it that high up in&#13;
rankings.&lt;br&gt;&#13;
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Pretty simple test, but Google clearly wins.&lt;br&gt;&#13;
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(That #8 link on Google, "Rate My Body", that's not me!)&lt;br&gt;&#13;
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&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:09 GMT</pubDate></item>