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While scrolling through Matt’s conference notes<\/a>, I’ve stopped for a second at his name and contact information slide. Two slides actually. The first one has the name “Matt Mullenweg” and a picture of him a few years back (either that, or a totally strange other boy). The second one has the URL to his website – photomatt.net<\/a> and a quick tip on how to find it – Google “matt<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Now it’s that last bit that caught my attention. I saw it before, but never thought about how nice it is. Google for “matt” is much easier to remember than “photomatt.net” or “Matt Mullenweg”. Isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Well, it would be nice if it was so simple and effective for everyone. But it’s not.<\/p>\n

My blog used to come up within the first ten or so results when Googling for “Leonid”. But nto anymore, and righteously so – there are more important Leonids. Like “Leonid Brezhnev<\/a>” and “Leonid meteor shower<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

My surname though is pretty unique. If you Google for “mamchenkov”<\/a>, you get exactly what you should. But the problem is that noone can remember “mamchenkov”. And half of those who can, can’t type it in correctly.<\/p>\n

So, I tried to find a shorter way of looking myself up. The experiment with chopping some letters off my surname didn’t work out:<\/p>\n