In my ongoing quest to improve my search-engine visibility, I have created a Google profile with a “verified name.” I have no idea whether this will make a damned bit of difference, but since I’ve already missed the boat on getting the .com and .net versions of my name on the Web, I figure this can’t hurt.

David Mack Google Profile

If I could send messages to my younger self, among the many pieces of advice I would have given myself in 1995 was “register your name as a dot-com address.” Too late now. Sigh.