{"id":387,"date":"2008-01-30T18:35:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T02:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2008-01-30T18:35:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T02:35:33","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/387-whats-in-a-name.html","title":{"rendered":"What’s in a Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last night, I was ego surfing, and decided to check my Google rank for the keyword “Robert.” That’s right, just “Robert.” I have been in the top ten off and on, but last night this site actually came up higher than the blog<\/a> of Robert Scoble<\/a>.<\/p>\n I think this means I was momentarily famous. Strangely enough, I didn’t feel any different than before. By this morning, the effect wore off. I am now back under Scoble. Such are my thrills of late.<\/p>\n I also started up a stub page on Wikipedia for my googleganger<\/a>, Robert Peake the Elder<\/a>. Some art historian with a lot of spare time later went to town. Unfortunately, the Peake side of my family tree<\/a> ends with my love-em-and-leave-em great-grandfather Peake. So, short of DNA testing (or some evidence that this painter had a double-jointed thumb), I’ll never know if we are related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night, I was ego surfing, and decided to check my Google rank for the keyword “Robert.” That’s right, just “Robert.” I have been in the top ten off and on, but last night this site actually came up higher than the blog of Robert Scoble. I think this means I was momentarily famous. Strangely …<\/p>\n