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David Ker<\/a> describes on his blog attempting to find someone online and not being able to, following up with encouragement to readers to make sure that, if someone is looking for them online, they can find them.<\/p>\n

Curious, I typed in James F. McGrath on the Yahoo! search engine, and all but one of the results on the first page of hits was somehow connected with me.<\/p>\n

Presumably search engines give an indication of either what is important about us, or \u201cwhat the internet thinks\u201d is typical of us.<\/p>\n

And so I thought I\u2019d share with you that this blog, Exploring Our Matrix, was the top hit. And the second result was a specific post on this blog. This one<\/a>. <\/p>\n

What do you think that says about me?\u00a0 Is that my single\u00a0most significant contribution to the World Wide Web?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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David Ker describes on his blog attempting to find someone online and not being able to, following up with encouragement to readers to make sure that, if someone is looking for them online, they can find them. Curious, I typed in James F. 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