Re: Googling Self

**"* L* <s*@comcast.net>**

I'll bet most of what we write isn't that novel or original, anyway!  There
is nothing new under the sun.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Margaret Lauterbach" <melauter@earthlink.net>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
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Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Googling Self

> People are actually using articles word for word?  I often write something
> like "Thomas Ogren reports..." (quoting myself here)  then a paraphrase of
> one of your statements.  I think that's fair use, isn't it?  I discovered
> some time ago that one should use every permutation of a name to find all
> of the references.  You should also use initials.
>
>
> >   I Google myself too, as I suspect most writers do now. And I too often
> > find websites and so on that are using articles of mine without my
> > permission. But I like to see this because in my case it is just that
> > much more free PR. I can't afford to advertise so free PR is the ticket.
> >   My theory is that for book writers at least, you can't get too much
PR.
> > The really only bad PR is no PR and every time my name or the title
> > allergy free gardening gets into print or on the radio or on TV, it is
> > all good.
> >   For fun I Googled Doreen, Andrew, myself, and Graham....and Grahm Rice
> > is putting us all to shame as far as Google hits.....no doubt the result
> > of much hard work and lots of good writing.
> >   A tip on this: I discovered, late, that the search engine spiders
"see"
> > Tom Ogren, Thomas Ogren, and Thomas Leo Ogren, as three different
> > people.....thus very different numbers and results on each of these in a
> > search. My advice would be to pick one name and stick with it.
> >Tom
>
> Margaret L
> Gardening in Intermountain West and Handicapped gardening
> http://www.margaretlauterbach.com
>
>
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