I normally use Google for the majority of my web searching. Just over a week ago Lifehacker pointed to YaGoohoo!gle, which is a site that allows you to submit one search query to Google and Yahoo! at the same time. So, of course, I searched for my name. Interestingly, my blog’s homepage doesn’t show up in the first 1000 hits on Google (I’ve used a different tool to verify that), but show up #1 on Yahoo. (I can’t bring myself to put Yahoo’s exclamation point after their name every time…) Certain posts from this blog show up in the top 100 results on Google, but not my homepage. I think I like Yahoo just a little bit more now. 
Yay for egosurfing.
Oh, and I’ve gone back to using Yahoo’s (well, really X1′s) desktop search utility. Copernic has a great offering, but X1 / Yahoo Desktop Search (same-same) have a user interface that works a little better for me. Plus, for me being able to see a progress bar during indexing is huge (yes, I have control issues). Copernic still doesn’t have that for some reason. Yahoo still blows chunks when it comes to releasing information about what they’re doing with YDS, and making it easy to find out if there’s a new version available. And they should be downright embarrassed about their ‘support forum’. But the new version (which I found out about from a blog rather than from Yahoo) seems to have fixed my biggest issues, so I’m happily using it again.
Please note: I've moved my active blogging over to a new site, called Jason Clarke - Infinite Bass Line. I will leave this site up indefinitely, but if you're interested in my latest posts please consider visiting the new site.
by bw
14 Apr 2005 at 13:20
Honest, I’ve never searched for my own name on the web before today… at least not on a web wide search engine. I turned out to be the #1 Brad Wilke on yahoo, thanks to a grinders article…. and couldn’t find myself with google. Spooky… what is Yahoo doing to tie those pages back to us? Perhaps if the IP address of our ISP is in the same range as that of the pages in the search results, it ranks them higher?
by Jason
14 Apr 2005 at 16:23
Hey, don’t kill my dream of being the #1 Jason Clarke that shows up whenever anyone searches my name anywhere!
Okay, I’ve admitted to control issues, now I have to admit to delusions of grandeur!
by bw
15 Apr 2005 at 14:52
Hey, if it wasn’t for Glen’s article on your site, I would likely not exist on the net! You however, are definitely taking over the Jason “Clark with an e” space on the net. Blogging and other forms of publishing on the net have definitely opened up a whole new dimension of recognition amongst a large community of people, that previous generations never dreamed of… (or something like that. )
by Jason
15 Apr 2005 at 14:55
So Brad – where’s your blog?
by Chris Maddocks
15 Apr 2005 at 15:15
I wonder if this post will help you solidify your position by including “Jason Clarke” yet one more time.
Heck, maybe even this comment will help!
by Jason
16 Apr 2005 at 17:44
Jason Clarke sure hopes that’s the case… Jason Clarke, Jason Clarke, Jason Clarke!
by Jason Clarke
20 May 2005 at 07:09
Before I begin…this comment is NOT from the owner of this site. It’s from his strangely similar alter-ego (or is he mine?), the Jason Clarke from jasonclarke.ORG.
I Found your (quite nicely designed) site when I was doing a bit of my own ego-searching. So, this is my attempt to extend the olive branch to a fellow “Clarke with an e” person.
by Jason
20 May 2005 at 23:52
Wow, how cool is that? I’m glad you found me – and now I’ve subscribed to your RSS feed. Hey – did you try to get jasonclarke.com first? It drives me crazy that the owner of that domain isn’t using it, and it appears he hasn’t for years!