Aggravating Search Results

Why is it that a search for Max Clark on Yahoo, AskJeeves, Dogpile, AltaVista, etc… all return what I would consider the proper result with my site on top, but a search on Google returns my mailing list postings and not my web site. I used to be #1 on Google, I need to fix this.
What’s really funny, is the site that Google lists first is a person who abbrievated his name just like I do.