If googling yourself is the ultimate in vanity searching or egogoogling (is that a fun new word, or what?) then is googling for photos you've taken a vanity search for the introvert?
I have a very old name, I can still count on one hand the number of times I've met someone else named Clara. The name is coming back into fashion, I've heard of three or four babies being named Clara in the last couple of years, but mostly people with my name have died of old age many years ago, so I'm in a dip of name popularity (and generally very happy for it). So when I do a google on my own name I typically come up with a lot of pictures of grave markers. This kind of vanity search is not a cheerful thing, so I avoid it.
But I do use Flickr to post a lot of photos I've taken and lately I've found many of them right at the top of google searches! All of my rose photos have the full variety name attached to them, I don't bother taking pictures of roses unless I can also take a photo of a name tag to go along with them. Otherwise, there are millions of photos of roses with the tag "yellow rose" or "red rose" and mine would be just one of millions. But if you search in google or google images on "rotary sunrise rose" or "harwelcome fellowship rose" or a few other rose variety names, my photos come up first! I've also found other non-rose images of mine coming up on top in google searches. (And for a fun twist, my photo of an odd image in a tree came up first when searching on "sasquatch suicide" for a few days.)
So on a vanity search for my photos, I come out quite well. Does this mean I have achieved anonymous fame? Is this introvert ego searching?
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