I’m going to start off by stating, yes, I have ‘googled” myself…. recently… and more than once. I feel comfortable saying this, because I know that by now most people with a pulse and a pc have probably done this at least once. The first time I ever searched for myself online was in High School. So let’s say it was the year 2000. Upon searching David Albertini I was happy to find that a couple links on the first page made reference to myself and my slightly above average tennis skills. Clearly at 18 years old, my biggest concern was something making reference to how big of a loser I was or anything else remotely embarrassing. All clear. So far so good. I was intrigued to see that at least someone who shared the same name as me was doing something impressive with it. As it turns out, there was a David F. Albertini, Ph.D who was a Harvard grad and at the time, the Professor of Anatomy and Cellular Biology and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University School of medicine. Cool right? That’s what I thought at the time.

Fast forward 9 years. Since the High School era googling (is that a word yet?) of my name, I have graduated university, worked for a high profile winery, worked with the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball team, and moved on to start a marketing company. About time to Google myself again to track my progress. Expecting to come across some sort of reference to myself, what do I find? Not only have I been bounced from the first page of Google, but Mr Ph.D has taken over almost every entry for David Albertini. He has since moved on to the Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at Kansas University. He no longer studies the process of oocyte development and maturation. Now he studies the meiotic spindle structure and assembly during in vitro and in vivo maturation of mouse oocytes, whatever that means. I’m sure there’s a chance these could be the exact same thing. All I know is that he has now created a Google enemy out of me.

For the past year I have been working to help organizations grow their online presence through social media and seo, but for some reason I have yet to put forth the effort to control the first page of Google for my own name. As an entrepreneur, this was probably a big gaff on my part, but that ends now. I am putting out notice to Mr. David F. Albertini Ph.D. I’m not sitting back any longer. I am coming for you. And if you decide to Google your name and come across my blog, feel free to follow along and track my progress as I work diligently to remove your accomplishments from the eyes of anyone who might search the name David Albertini. You’re probably thinking, who the hell is going to bother searching your name aside from you? And the answer to that is probably no one, but I’m not going to let that stop me. David R. Albertini is coming for that number 1 spot.

Stay tuned to hear about my progress. In the event that you are amongst the 99.99% of people who don’t care about anything that I just wrote or my progress, don’t feel bad, my blog will index in Google and bump the Ph.D. down anyway.

David R. Albertini