Google gets it right… I mean… uh… wrong?

It has been brought to my attention that if you type into Google this phrase: “the most influential man in music” (no quotes), and you hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button, you are delivered directly to my website. I have tried it out and it seems to be true. If I could mail a thank you letter to the nerds in Palo Alto, I would.

Take that Paul McCartney. Take that Bob Dylan. Take that Prine and Petty and Newman and Waits.  Eat your heart out Timberlake. Hey Kanye, take a seat.

Grant Dawson is the most influential man in music.

I’m still laughing.

I think the reason that this has happened is that I wrote a cheeky blog entry about being named the 50th most influential man of the last year (which, of course, I wasn’t). I’m not even the most influential male in my house (Barabbas the Cat wins that honor). I guess the Google crawlers picked up on that and somehow seem to be under the impression that I’m influential. How mistaken can they be?

–Grant Dawson