Internet – I passed the 10,000-hit mark!

Do you ever google yourself? Of course you do, unless you have a name that is shared by too many others in the world. When your name is for example Paul French, one of the writers at Chinabiz, you can beat it: there is too much pollution. Apart from sheer vanity I did it also in the past to check whether somebody would copy my stuff. Both in Europe and China people are mostly polite enough to mention your name when they infringe on your copyrights. In that way I could always invoice them afterwards. That was useful in the past, but tonight I discovered I passed the 10,000-hit threshold at Google and even vanity has its limits: I’m not going through all those hits anymore.

For the occasion , I tried to benchmark me a bit, and was surprised. Many people who have popular and interesting websites, score still rather modest. Dan Gillmor is of course far ahead with over 150,000 hits, but somebody like Joseph Bosco only passes the 6,000: I’m sure that will change very soon. Wang Jianshuo, one of the most popular Chinese bloggers, gets just over 2,000 hits. But even somebody like the famous Rupert Hoogewerf, who will present his top-100 Chinese Rich people list on Tuesday, gets even does not pass the 1,000 and even his Chinese name Hurun stays under the 2,000 mark. Hope this entry will boost his virtual presence a bit.