Shanghai Bob

Back in Freiburg it is rainy and cold, and I have a cold. I spent a few minutes online today googling “Shanghai Bob” to see what comes up. Apparently the most competition for this name comes from the Shanghai Bob Valve Company. It’s not obvious what scope Bob has in that name — is it modified by Shanghai (the valve company that belongs to Shanghai Bob) or does it modify valve (the Shanghai company that produces bob valves, whatever they might be).

The fact that the email contact is bob@bobvalve.com, and that the inventory lists ball valves, gate valves, globe valves, check valves, butterfly valves, plug valves, and slab gate valves, but no bob valves, suggests that the first explanation is correct.

At any rate, I found my site at the top of page three, which is pretty good considering that it was nowhere to be found just a month ago. I’ll check again over the next year and see how it improves. The real test will be once I make it to Shanghai to see where this blog comes in a search for just the word Shanghai.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 11:55 am and is filed under web.