ellybabes

We’ve all done it before:

“I’m meeting this guy, not sure if I like him, give me a call at 8:30 and if I need out I’ll use you as an excuse, right?”

Except what if your mate forgets to call?

Then you need this website – getmooh.com – “Get me out of here!”

Getmooh is an automated call back service. It is designed to help you escape a variety of situations by calling you automatically on your phone at a pre-specified time and playing you a recording which will either instruct you on what to say to elude your tormentor(s), or which will simply give a convincing sense of you being on an important call.

They should take this to the next level – allow users to record their own message and use it as needed – you could set a pre-record to tell your wife to get her ass out of the pub, or remind your hubbie that he should be leaving for home now.

Oh yeah, and it’s FREE!

Go here.

Put in your choices, click generate.

Post your Evil Plan!

Your objective is simple: World Domination.

Your motive is a little bit more complex: Sadistic pleasure

Stage One

To begin your plan, you must first expose a pope. This will cause the world to swallow nervously, bewildered by your arrival. Who is this evil genius? Where did they come from? And why do they look so good in a supervillain costume with gimmicks?

Stage Two

Next, you must seize control of the internet. This will all be done from a corporate tower, a mysterious place of unrivaled dark glory. Upon seeing this, the world will gibber like madmen, as countless hordes of mean english teachers hasten to do your every bidding.

Stage Three

Finally, you must unleash your doomsday device, bringing about an end to sanity. Your name shall become synonymous with blood, and no man will ever again dare refuse to be your prom date. Everyone will bow before your dashing good looks, and the world will have no choice but to give you control of the planet.

donnybrook \DON-ee-brook\, noun:

1. A brawl; a free-for-all.
2. A heated quarrel or dispute.

Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for donnybrook

I was checking out Cuil.com tonight, the new search engine from some ex-google employees. I decided to test it against Google, and I searched for the term “ellybabes”.

Whilst Cuil (pronounced “cool”) does return more results than Google (12,929 vs c.12,300), I think its ranking algorithms could do with some work yet. As Twenty commented, you would expect the domain names containing your search term to be reported first, ranking over brief mentions or links from other people. On Cuil, my domain only turned up towards the end of the first page of results.

By contrast, Google knows that my blog (blog.ellybabes.com), even on a subdomain, is more important and gets more traffic than my homepage (ellybabes.com), and ranks them accordingly. On the first page of Google results I get the following:

• My blog main page
• One of my blog sub-pages
• My domain homepage
• My Twitter homepage
• A link from my husband
• My P45 forum account
• My mobile Twitter homepage
• My Tumblr
• My Jaiku account
• My Stumbleupon account

Not perfect, but a good capture of my digital life, and certainly enough to help you find me.

However, on Cuil, it’s a very different story…

• Onlinemeetingrooms’ Jaiku account
• A half-dozen Technorati searches for other people
• The “Memories” category on my blog (a category with only 1 post in it)
• My Twitter account
• My Touristr profile (barely used, sorry Jan)
• The “About” page of my blog (very bottom of first results page)
• My account on DotNetKicks.com (I don’t even remember registering for one)

Cuil.com is certainly something to keep an eye on, but I wouldn’t be relying on it to compete with Google yet.

Oh, and the title of this post? Well that came up when I visited Google for some ego searching. Apparently someone has decided to bid on “ellybabes” as an AdWord, in order to return sponsored links for “Alibaba” – weird, huh?