NO ANSWER FOR THE ANSWER GUY

I was all set to write a new Search Engine Answer Guy today. Honest, I was. But in reviewing my searchphrase logs, I rediscovered something I’d noticed before but never bothered to investigate. Namely, I had a lot of search engine hits for ‘phil the showkiller.’

For the uninitiated, Phil ‘The Showkiller’ Ceppaglia is the producer of The Dan Patrick Show on ESPN Radio, and the former producer of Tony Kornheiser’s ESPN Radio program. Like many radio producers, Phil has been known to get a little air time. He’s a funny guy with a dry, deadpan sense of humor.

The only thing is . . . I’ve never written about him. Until right now, that is. So I have never been able to figure out why I’ve been getting so many hits on his name.

A quick search of Google revealed that, in fact, this website is the #5 result for ‘phil the showkiller’ simply because of a single comment left on one of my many anti-Jim Rome rants. What can I say? Comment spam really does equal Google juice.

Well, I for one am tired of only being on the receiving end of blatant Google voodoo. It simply will not do for The Bemusement Park to be the #5 Phil the Showkiller website. I want to be #1. But I am not willing to resort to shameless Phil the Showkiller Google bombing to make it happen. Rather, I plan to work more Phil the Showkiller content into this site, and I encourage all three of my commenters to do the same. Simple statements like, “I like this post, and I bet Phil the Showkiller would too” should go a long way towards . . . uhh . . . pushing me past Wikipedia and ESPN.com. OK, it probably won’t. This may be the #5 Phil the Showkiller website, but I guarantee we’re prouder of that fact than the top 4. Crikey, ESPN won’t even post a picture of Phil. We certainly would. If we had one. Which we don’t. But if we ever do, I promise we’ll post it. Probably.

I’ve been linked from FARK and Sports Illustrated. I’m cited twice in Wikipedia. I’ve even won a Tuesday Morning Quarterback Challenge. All that remains to make my Internet life complete is for this to become the #1 Phil the Showkiller website on the planet.

But it would be just my luck that he’s at home tonight starting a blog.