{"id":30733,"date":"2006-06-26T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/06\/26\/look-who-bought-my-name\/"},"modified":"2006-06-26T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T10:00:59","slug":"look-who-bought-my-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060626-59\/?p=30733","title":{"rendered":"Look who bought my name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/articles\/407234.aspx#630316\"> Pavel Vozenilek noticed<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=raymond+chen\"> if you type my name into Google<\/a>, there is only one sponsored link, and it&#8217;s from Google themselves, inviting you to apply for a job there. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1759,1473225,00.asp\">Maybe<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/05\/03\/17\/HNgooglefranceadwords_1.html\"> I<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sanjose\/stories\/2006\/02\/06\/daily28.html\"> should<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/search\/ci_3937517\">sue<\/a>. Perhaps I can get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickz.com\/news\/article.php\/3547356\"> a settlement<\/a>.)\n When I mentioned this to some other people at Microsoft, they started hunting around to see what sort of ads came up on Google when they searched for other names. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=eric+gunnerson\"> Eric Gunnerson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=brad+abrams\"> Brad Abrams<\/a> are available at low prices, and you can get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=randy+holloway\"> Randy Holloway<\/a> on eBay. Of all the Microsoft bloggers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=larry+osterman\"> the only other one that gets the Google Jobs treatment is Larry Osterman<\/a>.\n (Note: All links behaved as described when I originally wrote this entry; due to the nature of sponsored links, they may behave differently by the time you read this.)<\/p>\n<p> [9am update: Wow that was fast. The Google Jobs links for Larry Osterman and me are already gone.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter Pavel Vozenilek noticed that if you type my name into Google, there is only one sponsored link, and it&#8217;s from Google themselves, inviting you to apply for a job there. (Maybe I should sue. Perhaps I can get a settlement.) When I mentioned this to some other people at Microsoft, they started hunting around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-30733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Commenter Pavel Vozenilek noticed that if you type my name into Google, there is only one sponsored link, and it&#8217;s from Google themselves, inviting you to apply for a job there. (Maybe I should sue. Perhaps I can get a settlement.) When I mentioned this to some other people at Microsoft, they started hunting around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}