After my post yesterday about Search Me, a few people commented or emailed me, trying to figure out the whole Categories thing, usually why they didn't have any.
As best I can tell, here's the deal. If you aren't on enough Internet pages, or if the Internet pages you're on are incredibly varied in topic and context, your page will say Category: Everything. I think that just means there wasn't enough raw data to break down your online presence into clearly definable categories. If your name is mentioned in lots of places online, and enough of the pages are similar enough to group them together, Search Me will split your pages into Categories. Mine were Children's Books, Poetry, and Shopping. Bonny Becker had Auctions as her third one. That doesn't mean we personally shop or bid a lot. It means our names are listed on lots of pages where people can buy or bid on books (like amazon.com, bn.com, abebooks.com, and ebay.com). If you click on one of your categories, it will show you ONLY the pages that fall into that category. So if you're just interested in seeing what kind of stuff there is online that identifies you as having to do with Children's Books, you would click on that category and look at the resulting pages that stay on your screen.
This isn't what Search Me was designed for. It's a search engine, like Google. But a different, visually-based search engine. But by searching on your name, you can get an idea of what your online brand is, as Anastasia Suen mentioned in her post that introduced me to Search Me. If you don't have Children's Books as a category, or some other area that's really important to you, this might be an indication that you'd benefit from a greater online presence in that specific area.
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By: Laura Purdie Salas,
on 11/6/2008
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