Yougling Times Blog

Where is the first place you look for something… anything? Since you are reading this post I bet the first place you look for most things is the Internet. If you don’t know exactly where to look, you do a search. How many Internet users are there? Roughly 1.2 billion. Yet if you are looking for someone, an old friend from high school or someone you know who lives down the street, an Internet search is not always very helpful.

Why? Most people who use the Internet have little or no presence on the Internet. By presence I mean the stuff that turns up in a search result like web pages or news items and so on. There are only 50 million or so active web sites yet there are twenty times that number of Internet users. Sure many people belong to social networking sites like MySpace or FaceBook but what if whoever is interested in you doesn’t look there or heaven forbid you don’t belong to any social networking sites?

Why not just be on the Internet?

Why restrict your online presence to a social networking site? Why keep your contact information hidden from general search results? Do you even realize that is what most people do? Why not list your contact information in the greater Internet space, especially if it is free? Let old friends find you easily. Let the person down the street find you. Why hide?

Many would answer that question with:

• I don’t want all the junk mail
• It’s too expensive
• I’m not technical

Well, Yougler is free and Yougler provides spam-free emailand Yougler is easy enough to use that my 83 year old mother can do it.

What Yougler does

Yougler takes the information you provide, as little or as much as you are comfortable with, and “publishes” it so that the major search engines can crawl and index your information. Its that simple. Someone types your name, perhaps some locale information if your name is common, and there is your Yougler Internet Profile with a built in contact page in the search results.

Off the top of my head I can think of several nice things about publishing your Yougler Internet Profile.

• Others can find you in the first place they look, the search bar
• They no longer need to remember an obscure email address
• They don’t even need to know your email address, just your name
• You can change email addresses easily since no one needs to know it anyway
• If you move away or change jobs old friend or business associates can still find you

That is just off the top of my head. I am sure there are plenty of other good reasons to be found in a search apart from maybe the IRS looking for you—– but they could find you anyway.

As a demonstration search my name and local with this link. (You may get my pagemailr page which was what Yougler use to be called.)

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We are more than just alive, we are the Universe aware of itself… so pay attention! –note to myself
Author’s Yougler Profile is at  netlatch–.