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Being that my blog is fairly new, I don’t expect to rank in google when you search for David Rosenberg just yet. It is fairly understandable being that I don’t have any links yet either. With time that will all change and hopefully I will rank for my full name when you do a search in google. For those of you out there which don’t yet have a personal website or if you are in the same predicament as me there is still hope.

Google launched google profiles, a few weeks ago you can read a detailed over view at search engine land. So I completed my profile, I filled in my information added a photo and  some links to my social media accounts, such as twitter and delicious and 5 minutes later when I did a search for David Rosenberg there I was. Under all the listings with 3 other David Rosenbergs.

Google Profile Results For David Rosenberg

Last Friday google posted (no longer valid) that they are giving away 25 free business cards to the first 10,000 for their google profile. Well I ordered mine and they will look like this.

David Rosenbergs Google Profile Business Card

This is a very easy way to rank for your name so what are you waiting for, go ahead and complete your google profile.

Update: For those that are looking for my profile on google here it is. David Rosenberg ’s Google Profile.

The baseball season has just begun, being that I am a big fan of the New York Yankees, I did a quick search today for yankees in google. Here is what I got.

I am pretty sure that google has been showing sports scores in the search results. But today I noticed two new things that I have not seen in the past.

1. Google is displaying in box score during the game, which means that they are fetching the data from mlb.com, probably via API, although I am not sure.
2. Google added a link “add to iGoogle”, right next to the box score, which takes you to a sports scores gadget.

This comes to no surprise especially after this weekend when we learned that google has been talking to twitter about crawling their site better so that google can display live results from twitter. Google is into freshness and keeping their index as up to date as possible with the latest information. In addition, by keeping the score and the box score in the SERP’s, this allaws the searcher to remain on google’s site a bit longer and maybe click on an ad before leaving to a different website.

Have you seen an “add to iGoogle” link before in the google SERP’s? Is google displaying it anywhere else?