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EgoSurf: EgoSurfing without the guilt – they say…

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Published on April 24th, 2006 by Blogs & Blogging, Humor

Biggest EgoSurf

Bloggers beware! Here is a new measurement tool – EgoSurf – for egotistical blogger (i.e anyone clicking on this link to run the tool on his/her blog :-P ). As explained in the FAQ, the system runs a set of searches on Google, Yahoo, MSN and del.icio.us, and then tells you if you are out of control or not according to a secret formula of theirs.

Though I am not too sure what it means, it sounds like that I am in the red on Google and del.icio.us… And according to the system, I am “So-so” (WTF) and have the fifth biggest ego. Doh!

C’mon A-listers, please get me out of the Top 10!

Ego Surf

PS: Note that the Technorati search produces zero results.

[via Pierre Chappaz - in French]

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  • http://andrewbfife.blogspot.com Andrew Fife

    Definitely a fun little tool. However, it wasn’t very accurate in my case. My search reports zero hits for Yahoo, but when I look at the results that are they display, I found a reference to my blog in the 30th result. Adding quotes to my search terms seemed to help a lot.

  • http://sparkplug9.com John Koetsier

    Egosurf is a very cool tool …
    About it’s accuracy, egosurf is totally dependent on the services that it’s checking to a) allow access and b) be accessible (i.e., responsive) when egosurf is checking.
    Given how often services like Technorati say “busy now, call back later,” it’s not much a shock if egosurf can’t always get through and get all the links.
    I posted about it here:
    http://www.sparkplug9.com/bizhack/index.php/2006/01/30/history-as-content-egosurforg/

  • http://profile.typekey.com/kosedonucu/ Baris Karadogan

    Very cool, nice find.
    I wonder if sometime, some score like this will be up there with SATs and GMATs. Teachers will ask parents to “help your child build his ‘social quotient’ early on so that they can get in a good college”
    And if you know somebody at a good search engine you’ll be “juiced in”

  • http://blog.bauer-online.org/archives/128-egoSurf-Ego-Ranking-fuer-deinen-Blog.html .: blogging augusto :.

    egoSurf: Ego-Ranking für deinen Blog

    Es ist ganz einfach. Füttere egoSurf mit deinem Namen und deiner Blog-URL und warte auf deinen Rank. Unter more options kannst du auswählen welche Suchmaschinen befragt werden sollen (Google, Yahoo, MSN, del.icio.us und Technorati stehen zur Auswahl) un