internet impact
I see people on birdsite are talking about their biggest impacts on the internet today. So why not, I'll say it here too.
For multiple years in the early 00s, a picture of me was the top result if you did an image search on AskJeeves for the word "author". It was just a JPG named "the_author" on my website.
To this day I've no idea why. My guess is image rank was based partially on file creation date? It was an old picture.
Eventually I got tired of it and blocked search crawlers. My picture stopped appearing in search results. I do wonder sometimes exactly how long it would have continued if I hadn't done that.
