Vanity Search

This morning I did a vanity search on Yahoo. I figured I'd get a lot of results since I'm constantly trying to promote my company online. And, to be fair, there were a lot of links to me and to the Bevans Group. But, sadly, this was the number one search result for "Ann Bevans":

Mary Ann Bevans - The Homeliest Woman in the World
Welcome to Phreeque.com, a virtual collection of photos and bios of famous and ... Mary Ann Webster was born in London, England in 1874, one of eight children.
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Okay, first of all, what's this website? Phreeque.com? Nice. Now, just so you can enjoy the full effect of this, here is a photo of Mary Ann Bevans, The Homeliest Woman in the World:



Uh-huh. Now, by way of comparison, here's a photo on Ann Bevans, Not the Homeliest Woman in the World (I hope):



Can you see why this is distressing to me? How many hapless, potential clients are punching "Ann Bevans" into their search engines, only to happen upon "Mary Ann Bevans: The Homeliest Woman in the World"? How many of them think that's me? This is not helpful, professionally or otherwise.

Okay, you got me. That photo is pre-baby. To be completely transparent, I submit this photo from the final days of my pregnancy, back when I had my own gravity:

Can you see the moons? Seriously, North Korea was launching spy satellites into orbit around my belly. Someone should look into that. Miles, that's your beat, right?

Anyway, my point (if I have one), is that the internet isn't fair. There. I said it. One day you're tap tap tapping away about John Roberts ruining American Morning, and the next day you've got space junk floating around your mid-section. Or worse yet, you've got Mary Ann Bevans: The Homeliest Woman in the World.