Where does your name go?

I was taking a short cut the other day to get to Matt Cutts’ blog and just typed his name in to the address bar of Firefox expecting it to hit the Google search results and give me a link to click. Imagine my surprise when it took me straight to his website. I do have the Google Toolbar installed on Firefox, so I thought I’d give IE a shot. Matt Cutts turned up wiki as the #1 result in Live Search and his blog as #2. Hmm, maybe this is an indication of FireFox (or Toolbar) fandom.

Danny Sullivan in the address bar hits Google search results and has Search Engine Land as #1. Fair Enough. My name brings up my LinkedIn profile in the search results, still no direct push to my website. Maybe someone more famous than me or Danny will help. George Bush? Nope. Hillary Clinton? Nope. At least there is no political favoritism going on. Maybe another Googler? Sergy Brin pops me over to the Biography Channel - UK and Larry Page lands us over at wikipedia. Hmm, beginning to see a trend here.

Time to uninstall the toolbar. . . . . . .

Hmm, no toolbar and Yahoo! set as the default search and still redirected to Matt’s blog. It’s beginning to look like a Firefox admiration (funding?) issue. Damn, not even Marc Andreessen gets this level of respect.

What does Firefox think of your name?