GooglePortied!

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 30 Mar 2005, 21:30

see if you Google your Porty Online identity (you have to be quite bored), you find that the Google world picks you out quite quickly...

These are the first 10 members of the site, and I believe one of them is a Googlewhack!

Hell's Cat
rocking
Nick
bobbygee
melvillegh
Mikie_gb
Dave
Mags
sicker
bruce kidd

Go On try It!

I think I get on the first page of my results. (Epykat certainly does)

It's better than going down the pub - you never know who you might meet there.

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 30 Mar 2005, 22:09

There surely can't be more than one of me?

Jamesie · Post by **Jamesie** » 31 Mar 2005, 00:01

Putting Portobello Online into Google Images brings back some interesting results:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en ... llo+online

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 31 Mar 2005, 22:40

Hmm,

yer back then Jamesie.

good trip?

Jamesie · Post by **Jamesie** » 31 Mar 2005, 22:48

mr magnolia wrote:Hmm,

yer back then Jamesie.

good trip?

Milan was a bit dirtier than when I was last there, Mr M - unless it was the presence of 10,000 Scots that had such an effect

6 euro a pint was a bit steep though. It all got a bit much on Sunday and I headed off to Bergamo and met up with a Swiss Italian friend and she gave me a tour of the place - a lot more relaxing than Tartan Army duty!

Next stop, Belarus - wonder if we'll be there in time for the revolution?!

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 31 Mar 2005, 23:05

You need to get some responsibilities, debts, hinderances to free movement and careless adventuring, young man! Your doing too much enjoyment stuff...

Hell's Cat · Post by **Hell's Cat** » 01 Apr 2005, 12:58

For the oldies amoung us what is a googlewhack

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 01 Apr 2005, 13:03

Nice to hear from you again Hell's Cat. Do you know you have your very own thread now?

To answer your question a googlewhack is what happens when two words are entered in to Google and it comes back with one and only one hit.

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 01 Apr 2005, 22:22

Jamesie wrote:Milan was a bit dirtier than when I was last there

Getting totally off topic! Mr E was in Milan too and wasn't overly impressed! On the day of the match his friend had his sporran cut off/removed in some way whilst in the crowd and lost Ã‚Â£150, his phone and his credit card

They weren't made to feel all that welcome and felt they were being ripped off everywhere. Had a much better time in Germany a few years back. Now....... Belarus? Mmmmm....he hasn't mentioned that yet

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 02 Apr 2005, 08:18

And back on topic, to google your own name has been dubbed 'to meegle'. Searching on the term "Bob Jefferson" I am astonished to find that my Portobello Online profile is the fourth result on the very first page.

It's kind of scary when our online musings in one tiny part of the world turn out to be so very publicly accessible.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 02 Apr 2005, 08:59

Mr magnolia, after all this time I have just realised that your online identity comes from a children's book. I know Quentin Blake as the illustrator of Roald Dahl's children's stories but didn't realise he was an author in his own right. Don't know how we missed him really, his books sound great. I'll have to check out the library.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 02 Apr 2005, 09:44

If that's what Mr M looks like, he should be easy enough to spot and spladoosh!!!

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 02 Apr 2005, 12:06

Searched for 'bearcub' thinking there would be so many that there was no chance of yours truly being there but, although there are loads, there I am on only pg 5

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 02 Apr 2005, 12:23

Bob Jefferson wrote:And back on topic, to google your own name has been dubbed 'to meegle'. Searching on the term "Bob Jefferson" I am astonished to find that my Portobello Online profile is the fourth result on the very first page.

It's kind of scary when our online musings in one tiny part of the world turn out to be so very publicly accessible.

When I carried out the search on your name Bob you came first on page one out of 1,660,000 hits!

My user name came back with 289,000 hits.....I must be in there somewhere but don't know where. If I + Portobello then I'm first on the page.
What's spookier is that if I put my real name in I'm in the first two (completely different) sites on page one

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 02 Apr 2005, 21:16

Bob Jefferson wrote:Mr magnolia, after all this time I have just realised that your online identity comes from a children's book.

yes, fab book(s).

but more accurate to say my identity 'coincides' with a children's book title...

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 04 Apr 2005, 10:22

Just tried googling my name and I just made the first page. I was a bit embarrassed by the second entry though........ "Studded spank me open rear mens brief"

Didn't know you got such things

I must stress that my teddy refers to the furry variety and not the lingerie type

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 04 Apr 2005, 17:02

mr magnolia wrote: but more accurate to say my identity 'coincides' with a children's book title...

Oh good. I thought I knew the reason for your identity, and was distressed by Bob's post.

Pic does look like you, though...

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 04 Apr 2005, 17:21

teddygirl wrote:"Studded spank me open rear mens brief" Didn't know you got such things

I must stress that my teddy refers to the furry variety and not the lingerie type

(ah yes, the quiet ones are the worst)

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 16 Apr 2005, 10:38

Googling the term Portobello Edinburgh now has Portobello Online appearing first out of 81,600 results.

Even more incredibly, googling just Portobello places us fourth out of 771,000 results.

We must be doing something right!

Post by **wangi** » 16 Apr 2005, 12:25

And first for both on MSN Search, but the problem is nobody uses that

(good!)

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 16 Apr 2005, 13:05

Bob Jefferson wrote:Even more incredibly, googling just Portobello places us fourth out of 771,000 results.

It now makes us fourth out of 921,000 hits Bob

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 16 Apr 2005, 13:34

Google 'Pal of Porty' and Portobello on Line comes out top of 11,500!