Genie -

Having carefully checked the first 780 hits for my "real" name, I find that I am completely and totally anonymous. They'll have to wade through at least 15 or 20 "Reverends," a good dozen lawyers, a half dozen or so electronic/computer whiz kids, several architects, one or two "tree huggers" (environmentalists), a handful of rock drummers (two in "Christian music"), two (or more) disbarred teachers (NJ, NY), an axe murderer from 1840 or so, and a serial killer from a couple of years back to even get interested in me.

Traditional lore has been that Google indexes more based on links to stuff than on the stuff itself. If that's the case, some of my B.S. must be getting bandied about more than I'd have expected. The 158 hits on my mudcat posts is but a tiny fraction of the brilliant prose I've posted here, so there must be some other factors involved.

And SWMBO only got two hits on her 'cat name, and they were both nearly 3 years old.

I can affirm that they don't index letters to Kansas Congrespersons or newspapers, possibly because none of them can read them. Maybe if I tacked "humor" onto the search string...

John