Unexpected SEO results

I had need to show the official MySQL business shirt to somebody, so I did a Google Search on “mysql conference photos” (without the quotes) as I know I’ve seen photos of staff at the conference online before. Google Search Link

To my utter surprise, Google provided 3 image search results. Two of them were of Paul McCullagh, CTO of PrimeBase Technologies . Not only was this unexpected, the first image of Paul was actually from my own Blog . Go figure how I managed that Search Engine Optimization.

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