Social mention
I searched for Arvin A Brown and these results (I see when you click that link it will do the search all over again – so the results may look different each time)
The first 2 items are from October 2008 (and yes I have posted other things since then). I don’t even want to know why the japanese lesbian site it connected to us. I’d hardly say this provides current results! At least in addictomatic my blog post were in the search results!
Addictomatic:
I had to use quotation marks to include the name of the library or else it looks for any of the words anyplace and gives many irrelevant results. The string search gives few results but all are relevant. Not that I can see this is any use to us searching for our library. And honestly I can’t see using any of these personally either – except as occasional curiosity searches – the same way I might google myself or someone else.
Google alerts:
Arvin A. Brown needed to be in quotation marks to yield relevant results again and didn’t give any irrelevant sites, bbut can also be limited to a limited time period (past 30 days). I like the way google alert looks much better than the other 2 – cleaner and less busy. I also tried a few other names and found that it would bring up items on eBay (I found a signed photocard of David Hobbs). The down side is that it doesn’t distinguish between people with the same name, so you could get way too much information if you were searching for “John Smith”.
I don’t know how or when I would ever use these sites (I could just be on gizmo overload right now), but they are fun and I am glad to know about them.
Posted by arvinabrown on April 30, 2010 at 2:28 am
Okay what’s going on? When I came back to check the link to social mention results it did have one of my recent blog posts as the #1 result – but it wasn’t there the first time, really!