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How often do these guys google themselves? My mean time between self-googling's can be months... seems like there would be the potential for months to pass before hearing anything.

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great phrase you had there: "mean time between self-googling"

I propose that as a new measure of narcissism in the Age of the Web.

A: So what's your MTBSG?

B: 5 minutes.

A: Dude get some sunlight.

Consider that a friend, acquaintance or employee might have seen the ad and mentioned it to them. That'd reduce the waiting time.

That's even better, because you've just leaped up the trust totem pole from "A nobody on the Internet" to "a warm introduction from a trusted associate."

Presumably creative directors are a particularly vain sort, and likely given the type of self-promotion required to be successful in that sort of job, the most successful are likely the most vain.

Given they're top names within their industry, they might have staff checking the search results quite frequently to ensure that competitors aren't showing ads against their names. Something like this then gets flagged up as something for the boss to see.

Given his target market, I think this was a great way to get an interview.

And what do people look for when they google themselves? What do you find that's interesting? I have the same name as a celebrity, so I can't have this feature. (it's not Michael Bolton).

you can set up google alerts that notify you of changes to the results of a search. And people in some industries care very much about what's said about them.

I doubt that Google Alerts tells you about new ads that match your keywords.

ah, that's right. ads wouldn't show up in that. my bad.

but maybe there's a way to see what's run against a set of key words. any SEO people in da house?

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