EgoSurf: EgoSurfing without the guilt - they say...
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!
PS: Note that the Technorati search produces zero results.
[via Pierre Chappaz - in French]
Tags: egosurf
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.
Posted by: Andrew Fife | April 24, 2006 at 10:14 AM
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/
Posted by: John Koetsier | April 24, 2006 at 11:38 AM
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"
Posted by: baris | April 30, 2006 at 10:25 PM