{"id":439,"date":"2007-05-13T22:21:32","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T03:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/05\/13\/google-meets-the-axis-of-evil-comedy\/"},"modified":"2015-04-22T07:56:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T12:56:50","slug":"google-meets-the-axis-of-evil-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/05\/13\/google-meets-the-axis-of-evil-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Meets The Axis of Evil Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I heard a comedian named Ahmed Ahmed, who is touring on the &#8220;Axis of Evil Comedy Tour&#8221;, via a radio interview in which he was asked what it was like having the same first and last name.  Much to my surprise, he started talking about how a guy on the FBI&#8217;s most wanted list &#8211; Ahmed Mohanned Hamed Ali &#8211; shows up right next to his when you type &#8211; Ahmed Ahmed &#8211; into Google&#8230;notice the first and second entries in the first of the two photos below. Ahmed has a point when he states that when typing in Ahmed Ahmed twice he doesn&#8217;t find the result relevant as I don&#8217;t either. But the oddity of this doesn&#8217;t stop here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At present if one types simply &#8211; Ahmed &#8211; into Google, Ahmed Mohanned Hamed Ali does not show up at all in the top ten results! Even more bizarre is that there are other Ahmed&#8217;s that show up prior to him Abdullah <strong>Ahmed<\/strong> Abdullah (page 4) and Sheikh <strong>Ahmed<\/strong> Salim Swedan (page 6).<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;d like to ask Matt Cutts and Adam Lasnik, search evangelists at Google, just why does Ahmed Mohanned Hamed Ali show up for a search for Ahmed Ahmed and not Ahmed?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/193\/497189864_4857631b0a.jpg?v=0\" align=\"middle\" height=\"500\" width=\"365\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/219\/497188688_6bed976f5f.jpg?v=0\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I heard a comedian named Ahmed Ahmed, who is touring on the &#8220;Axis of Evil Comedy Tour&#8221;, via a radio interview in which he was asked what it was like having the same first and last name. Much to my surprise, he started talking about how a guy on the FBI&#8217;s most wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-goog","category-reputation-management"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}