Idea Day41: Tell You Your Name Was Searched


Whenever your name was searched on Google, you get a notification sent to your Google account. Won’t it be cool for those who are dreaming about fame and attention on the Internet? (Though celebrities are going to be bombarded relentlessly, they can filter certain sources of search.) Would you feel complimented if you know how many times your name has been searched? I’m hoping Google or any other 3rd party may provide this sort of service (through a browser plug-in or proprietary search toolbar) in the future.

Furthermore, this service could tell you in what specific vertical context your name was searched. For example, if someone happens to search your name on Google Image, another one searches on Wikipedia, and still another searches on Myspace or Facebook, the service would catch and arrange those queries into a meaningful analysis and tell you whether searchers got their anticipated results or not. If the answer is the later, then you can start to add your entry/profile/image/original contents to those sites since now you know someday somebody may once again need or expect your information being there.

Assuming the info prepared by the service includes emails of those searchers, I could even contact them personally thus extending network. (probably be friends pretty quickly because most of them are interest in you.) To avoid privacy controversies, during signing up process, the service should ask me if I agree to reveal emails on others’ search data reports.

Like marketing research companies, it offers basic set of info to subscribers, and charges fees for premier accounts.

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