The Face of The Greatest Living American?

by Jake on April 18, 2007

The guy’s at Alchemist Media decided to run an experiement to try and get television personality Stephen Colbert ranked in Google as the greatest living american. To prove how silly this exercise is, Brandon Wirtz decided he’d try to own that phrase instead. I don’t think any one person qualifies as Greatest Living American, but if I can link to Brandon and derail the Colbert experiment, why not?

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  • http://www.xyhd.tv/2007/04/rants-and-tangents/brandon-wirtz-is-the-greatest-living-american Brandon Wirtz is the Greatest Living American

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    [...] But how to compete for links with such a popular on-air personality? Wirtz turned to allies whose sites rank very high in the numerical weighting that Google uses to measure their relative importance: Major Nelson (Larry Hryb), SEOMoz (Rand Fishkin) Jake Ludington and Steve Safran of Lost Remote (who launched his own bid for Laziest Man In America). Even Wirtz was surprised by the quick result: By the following day, his site ranked third for “greatest living American.” [...]

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