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Owning My First Name on Google

Shortly after I started blogging, I learned a game bloggers play. It's called "owning your first name on Google."

The idea is to make your weblog so popular that a search on Google with only your first name would result in your web page being listed first.

Jon, Cedric, Dave, Mark, Rickard are but a few examples.

But the first time I tried mine I was reminded that Weiqi is also the Chinese name of a popular game, known in the west by its Japanese name---Go. And my website was preceded by several pages of Google search results.

Things have improved a little since then. Although I still can't compete with the Singapore Weiqi Assiciation, my website is at least on the first page of Google results. And I'm ahead of www.weiqi.net!

Give me a few more weeks.