Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Woohoo! I'm a Listed Acronym
It's hard to know how to assess the quality of Google versus Yahoo, I had assumed Google was better and use it almost exclusively for research along with Froogle and Google-News. I can't use Google for my MEME Watch application in the left sidebar however because the Perl program gets blocked by Google.com from doing searches -- not so with Yahoo.com. As it turns out there are definite differences between what MEME-Watch would return if Google could be used versus Yahoo.
In wake of my recent "Milestones" post I decided to do a little vanity search for "Bare Naked Larry" and see what differences Yahoo might show over Google. Imagine my surprise when Yahoo returned 2,450 pages for "Bare Naked Larry" (and yes they are all related to my website) versus only 309 for Google.
One of the most interesting things I found out is that BNL is listed as an acronym for "Bare Naked Larry" at least by Acronymattic.com. In fact it comes in at #14 out of 27. I'm ranked exactly in the middle, right behind "Bangkok Netball League." I would have expected "Bare Naked Ladies" who inspired my web name to be at #1, but they're not even on the list (evidently they don't refer to themselves as BNL whereas I do). It seems unlikely I will ever outrank "Brookhaven National Laboratories" at number #3, but look out "Bangkok Netball League" I'm gunning for you!
