EGOPOLY

KAYAK, the greatest travel app of all time.

Another in a series of megalomaniacal self aggrandizement.

Remember how I said I thought Stevie was my slightly smarter, long lost twin?
I was wrong. He is way, way smarter than me.

Steve Yegge is my long lost, slightly smarter, twin brother. His recent rants have convinced me of that fact, to a scary degree. (Loves emacs, worships JWZ, not a Mac nut yet has switched, hates IDEs)

Bad news for you, Stevie, is that you’re really 41, not 40. Or maybe I’m 40, not 41. That’s a better thought.

A few weeks ago, I started a silly experiment in SEO (search engine optimization.) If you google for “greatest programmer of all time” (don’t forget the quotes) I have a page that declares me as such, in the number 1 result. If the Google believes, it must be true!

The image results are even better:

You too can be the greatest [whatever you want] of ALL TIME!

1. Get a web site that has some level of page rank. Mine is only 4, so it doesn’t need to be big.

2. Make an HTML file, name it the-greatest-whatever-of-all-time.html

3. Put title, H1 and meta tags like I did in my version.

4. Wait for the google to work it’s magic, and crown you the King.

Of course, if somebody else with a bigger pagerank comes along, or has more friends to link to them, then you will be unseated. Sorry. It’s dog-eat-dog out there.