Number 2 in Google!!!
Don't get too excited, as I don't mean #2 on Google's web search engine. But if you search Google Base, Google's new free database system (similar in some ways to Craigslist) for "Translation," I show up as the number two entry! Proof follows (by the time you read this, I will probably have skyrocket downward to the bottom of the list, although you can check by clicking the hyperlink above).
Granted, the service only went live yesterday, and there were only 525 results containing "translation" as of the time I made this post, but still I feel almost giddy that lil' old me was near the top of the chart for a search as broad as "translation." Maybe that says something about the kind of times we're living in. So much for the "15 minutes of fame;" I am content with about three seconds every now and then.
I won't re-write my ad just to try to get a higher rank, unless it becomes plainly obvious that sites totally irrevant to translation have eclipsed me through devious advertising methods. Have any of you readers experienced an similar emotional reaction to a Google search with personal meaning?
Today I will give a lecture to a group of young entrepreneurs of the Nishijin district of Kyoto, famous for the weaving industry there. It's supposed to be about the differences between American and Japanese businesses, as well as the "inside story" about how 9/11 changed American life (stuff that they didn't hear through the Japanese newsmedia). The problem is that I wasn't in Japan at the time so I don't know exactly what they were told! I'm trying to read articles in Japanese from the time but it's a really time-consuming and difficult task. The speech is in about 6 hours as of the time I'm writing this post.
Then tomorrow I will participate in a volunteer radio program or two through a program run by the Kyoto Prefectural International Center and 79.7 San-jo Radio Cafe. We will be talking about the different ways New Year's is celebrated in each of our countries. I'm from America for any internet readers who don't know me personally, and in my group there is also Kyo-san from Guangdong, China, Jennifer-san from Kiryu of all places (she is a British-Japanese biracial), and Hasan-san from Iran. We will also have a visitor, Rai-san from Bhutan. These radio broadcasts make me really nervous (this will be our first official recording, and only my second time in the recording studio) but I think we will have a really interesting program this time. The people in my group are all really nice and intelligent.
Okay, I have to go work on the speech now!
Granted, the service only went live yesterday, and there were only 525 results containing "translation" as of the time I made this post, but still I feel almost giddy that lil' old me was near the top of the chart for a search as broad as "translation." Maybe that says something about the kind of times we're living in. So much for the "15 minutes of fame;" I am content with about three seconds every now and then.
I won't re-write my ad just to try to get a higher rank, unless it becomes plainly obvious that sites totally irrevant to translation have eclipsed me through devious advertising methods. Have any of you readers experienced an similar emotional reaction to a Google search with personal meaning?
Today I will give a lecture to a group of young entrepreneurs of the Nishijin district of Kyoto, famous for the weaving industry there. It's supposed to be about the differences between American and Japanese businesses, as well as the "inside story" about how 9/11 changed American life (stuff that they didn't hear through the Japanese newsmedia). The problem is that I wasn't in Japan at the time so I don't know exactly what they were told! I'm trying to read articles in Japanese from the time but it's a really time-consuming and difficult task. The speech is in about 6 hours as of the time I'm writing this post.
Then tomorrow I will participate in a volunteer radio program or two through a program run by the Kyoto Prefectural International Center and 79.7 San-jo Radio Cafe. We will be talking about the different ways New Year's is celebrated in each of our countries. I'm from America for any internet readers who don't know me personally, and in my group there is also Kyo-san from Guangdong, China, Jennifer-san from Kiryu of all places (she is a British-Japanese biracial), and Hasan-san from Iran. We will also have a visitor, Rai-san from Bhutan. These radio broadcasts make me really nervous (this will be our first official recording, and only my second time in the recording studio) but I think we will have a really interesting program this time. The people in my group are all really nice and intelligent.
Okay, I have to go work on the speech now!
posted by jeremy at 11:27 AM
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