Sax Maniac's Journal: Slashdot owns Google

A couple years ago, if you put my name into Google you'd get my (admittedly lame) vanity page. Maybe about a year ago, this stopped happening - instead, you'd get my profile on SourceForge. That was annoying, of course, I want people to get my own page when they look for me.

What happened?

Turns out I used to have a link to tringali.org on my Slashdot comments. I took that down one day, because I thought it would be better to split my handle from my name. Not that anyone can't find out my real name from my handle or vice-versa, but just to make it less obvious.

Turns out that's what killed it. I put the link back and, bang, I'm back at the top. Behold the power of Slashdot, and wield your homepage link with care.

So much for my, ah, secret identity.