5/2/2006

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.

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6 Comments »

  1. This is a most excellent post! I’m sure that Phil the Showkiller would agree!

    Comment by Library Guy — 5/3/2006 @ 5:02 pm

  2. Movin’ on up! The Bemusement Park is now the #3 Phil the Showkiller website.

    Comment by Library Guy — 5/3/2006 @ 7:33 pm

  3. And did you know that Phil the Showkiller looks like Mike Bibby of the Sacramento Kings?

    Yes, ’tis true. It was mentioned on the DP show the other day, and while finding Phil the Showkiller pics isn’t as easy as it ought to be, I did locate one on the ESPNradio site and lo and behold, he does look like Mike Bibby.

    Indeed, in your quest to be the site for Phil the Showkiller, might I suggest further investigation into this startling separated at birth situation.

    Comment by Steven Taylor — 5/4/2006 @ 7:20 am

  4. Egads! I mistyped Phil above as “Phile”–meaning that may soon be the #1 Google site for “Phile the Showkiller”!

    Comment by Steven Taylor — 5/4/2006 @ 7:21 am

  5. Fear not, Doc. Your comment’s been redacted. Though being the #1 ‘Phile the Showkiller” site on the Internet does have its own special appeal . . .

    Comment by Scribleris — 5/4/2006 @ 8:39 am

  6. But you have written about him. More accurately, Jamie the commenter wrote about him:

    http://markhasty.com/archives/2004/05/27/you-had-a-take-and-it-sucked/

    That explains why you’re getting the hits. But how to explain the existence of the hits, is another question. Why are people suddenly wanting to know about Phil the showkiller?

    Comment by Harry — 5/4/2006 @ 2:20 pm

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