With or without Google, the photography carries on.

As I wrote a few posts ago, Google has some serious issues. My images were mysteriously dropped from Google Images earlier this month after I submitted a new computer generated xml sitemap. Previously I sent in hand-typed text maps. I still haven't made it back on there. Very lame considering that this is a photography website. Thankfully there are other search engines hot on Google's tail. Here are some of the more interesting searches that I have had this month so far.

"Richard Wong" - Who on earth would be looking me up 16 times on Yahoo? Hopefully photo editors, art directors and my future wife (Carrie Underwood, Reese Witherspoon, Hilarie Burton, a camera-wielding goddess or whoever). :-)

"How to obtain Peyton Manning's autograph?" - This one stems from the posting I wrote last summer about how I was photographing right next to the Colts quarterback in the NHRA pit crew VIP area in Indianapolis and some dude asked me to get his autograph for him as I was leaving. I declined. Whoever was searching for that info must have been disappointed when he found my blog.

"How much money does a scenic photographer get in a year?" - Not that much. Probably none eventually if clueless photographers keep giving their rights away for free and "selling" for pennies on microstock websites.

"Outside waterfall wedding ceremony in Dubuque Iowa" - Um ok.

"Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Picture and Info" - Picture: Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Portrait at the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene, Kansas

Info: Dwight David Eisenhower was born in 1890 in Dennison, Texas and died in 1969. Was the first Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces (NATO) during World War II in Europe, and served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. Eisenhower, his wife and son are all entombed in the chapel of his presidential library museum complex.

BTW. Thanks for that search as it's given me an idea for my website. Maybe I'll put up a page of search queries and the pictures for the ones that aren't on my regular website galleries and will lure in future clients as a result.

The other day I wrote this long diatribe message to Google supported by ample evidence to their re-inclusion index. They expect you to click this box and consent to some wrongdoing of sorts in order to write to them so I clicked it because I had no other choice then promptly denied any wrongdoings and put it right back on them since they seem to like playing power trip games with people. Don't get me wrong. I like how innovative their company is when it comes to technology but their search engine is the most flawed search engine out there. A lot of great sites out there aren't coming up high enough of the results if at all. Unfortunately it is also the most popular search engine. So much so that the term "Google" is now in the dictionary and synonymous with searches.