From: hal@finney.org
Date: Sat Mar 17 2001 - 00:21:50 MST
Robert writes:
> Now, why is Keith the 2nd most famous extropian? Well I'm
> not doing any "filtering" for identity homonyms. But it
> would appear that from Google's point of view:
> Anders > Keith > Max > Damien >> yours truly or Greg
You have to be a little careful with these Google counts. If you do a
search on "Hal Finney" you will find a couple of hits on the first page
about some 1930s baseball player. I suspect there's only one Max More on
the net, but Anders Sandberg seems to be a name shared by at least a few
other people.
I doubt that our Anders is also the professional hockey player shown at
http://www2.corren.se/sidor/tidningen/9811/19/Sport_o_Fritid/ISHOCKEY2.HTM,
or is the L. Anders Sandberg who is the author of the book "Sustainability,
The Challenge" at http://www.umu.se/cerum/publikationer/info/publ_nsb1_98.html,
or is the president of the Stokholm Rotary Club, http://www.cm.se/rotary/Styrelse.htm.
(Or maybe he is!)
I think most of the hits are for the "real" Anders but a certain
percentage are for imposters. Likewise for other people, depending
on how common their name is, as with me and that baseball player.
Hal
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