Vanity Search Footprint

When asked to conduct another vanity search I was excited about seeing how much my digital footprint had increased over the past 7 weeks. I was expecting more hits, images, the whole nine. Unfortunately, when I entered Jaquelia Jefferson in Google's search bar, nothing appeared to have changed. By this, I felt very disappointed. Then I remembered that I may have to try a different search in order for more "hits" to appear. So this time I entered "Jaquelia Jefferson" into Google and this generated everything I was looking for.

Not only did the previous results appear but, all of the work I completed in the past 7 weeks showed up as well. What I did notice that was a quite bit weird to me, is that the new results did not come up until you were on page 2 of the search results. I would think the the results would go from new to old instead of vice versa.

Besides seeing my blog post and replies to my classmates posts I also noticed that my immediate family member's names appeared from site entitled "Spokeo." I never heard of this site before so I wanted to go see what it was about. The site appeared to just be basic information on my family (name, immediate family members, address and age).

What I was hoping to find that didn't pop up was my twitter account for my Web 2.0 class. This was the one thing that I just knew would be different. However, I didn't see it anywhere. Maybe you have to tweet a certain amount of times before it's comes up as one of the results. My old personal account is the very first results that pops up. With this, I thought the same would be true for my new account.

Overall I did see a significant change that I am happy with. My results came up with four pages instead of the initial two. So I believe that I have created a digital footprint that I can honestly be proud of.