Have you Ever Googled your Name?

[sarae]

I only get 355 hits for my name (and I think only one is actually me.) I think that's surprising - not because I think it's a lot, but I think it's rather low. I know of two people my same age with my exact name - first, middle and last - (one who applied to the same university that I'm in, our applications got a bit muddled) and another who went to the school a friend went to. That's a bit disconcerting.

 

[jelloshotsrule]

says the guy whose links include "80sretromusic.com"

so sad brah

 

[solvs]

19 hits. Guess I'm not that popular. Apparently there's some guy with my name that needs a tractor though.

 

[lem0n]

7 results with quotes... without quotes, all the result came up as the main character in Chobits....

 

[Applespider]

Yup... and they're all me. Like Macadicttt I have an unusual Italian surname which probably helps!

 

[Stampyhead]

Wow, there's a member of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK with the same name as me. He must be my alter ego, as I am neither liberal nor a democrat.

 

[XIII]

5 results for my name in quotation marks.

 

[ecche]

Gee, that's fun! I get 170 hits. Apparently there are a few guys in Scandinavia who share my name, among them a junkyard operator, a lawyer and a homosexual who operates a homepage that runs under myname.com.

 

[dcv]

Exactly 1 Google hit for me.

apparently that's called a googlewhack.

 

[technocoy]

i have the same

name as a fairly famous folk musician, so i get lot's of hits too..
oh well...

 

[plinden]

How many do you get in different languages? I get 2 in Chinese (simplified) and 4 in Chinese (traditional). None actually for me personally, though.

 

[Lyle]

it's bad when you're not naked to yourself, but you're naked to the world, ain't it?

Blue Velvet has already made it clear that she is not the porn star with whom she shares a name, so quit harassing her about being "naked to the world".

 

[MongoTheGeek]

17,000 hits with quotes
8.12 M without.

#1 is a bio chem professor, who might be a relative (not close)
#2 is me
#3 is a book on alibris with my first name in the title and by an author with the same last name. (also perhaps a distant relative)
#4 is my father (I'm a jr)
#5 is my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather (I think I counted right)
#6 is a sub page of #5
#7 is me again
#8 is a sub of #7
#9 I think is #1 again
#10 is me again.

Then again my name is an imperative sentence.

 

[Lyle]

107,000 hits with quotes, 1.88 million without. In both cases, most of the highest-ranking hits are in fact me. I am not, however, this guy or this guy.

 

[DZ/015]

Only one hit for me using my first and last names in quotes. Oddly, my name is used in "Jim and Ben's fake Darwin awards" page.

 

[emw]

Then again my name is an imperative sentence.

Go figure.

 

[Kmacripple]

I get 306,000 hits with my name in quotes, but I have two very common names. I have the same name as the drummer in the band Fuel, but I already knew that.

 

[floyde]

seems my name is pretty generic. Whew.

Yes I know quite a few blaskillets myself

 

[Doctor Q]

"Doctor Q" gets a few hits, most of them about a nifty guitar accessory. I also found this hit at a PC forum where somebody says "a person known as 'Doctor Q' who emailed me the solution." I have no idea if that's somebody I helped once upon a time or there is another computer-oriented Doctor Q out there. I don't know that much about PCs. Are they like Macs but in ugly cases?

The name I go by among friends in real life (Q) gets 417 millions hits! But only 347 million hits when in quotes. I wonder what the difference is. (I haven't finished checking them all yet. Gimmie a minute.)

The name my parents gave me (good for driver's licenses and stuff like that) gets only a couple dozen hits, but one of them is a photo of me I didn't know was on the Internet until today!

 

[iBlue]

i have an unusual name that is a very common word. (my real first name is Blue) my last name was a name of an old story book character, so my results are really obscure. (thankfully)
my username here (iBlue) is apparently referenced mostly to a bluetooth accessory. so it looks like i slipped through the cracks.
[whew]

 

[clayj]

601 hits, but my name is pretty rare ("Clay Johanson"). Of those 601 hits, about 580 are me... the remainder are my dad (same name, but I'm not a junior... I have a different middle name) and some kid from the Midwest. There are also a couple that are typos... some bigwig in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the White House is named "Clay Johnson", but a couple of foreign news services mangled that into "Clay Johanson" in their coverage of him.

 

[Loge]

3850. Not all me. If your first name's a word, it tends to produce spurious hits. I didn't think there would be many others with my name, but apparently there is one who was executed in the Tower of London.

 

[njmac]

only 4 hits for my name in quotes. I guess it's unusual

When I googled my last name only, it came up with 341,000 hits. And really my first name isn't that uncommon.(Sharon)

 

[mikemodena]

hah!
GRAND RAPIDS -- A West Michigan tax rebel was returned to prison for two years Thursday for breaking the rules of his release from a previous stay. Michael Modena refused to give a DNA sample, which is required under federal law, moved without telling his probation officer and committed other violations. U.S. Chief District Judge Robert Holmes Bell also heard testimony from a man who said Modena advised him on how to frustrate federal authorities. He got a five-year sentence in 2000 for conspiring to help five brothers evade hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes.

That's what I found. It freaks me out to read that.

Also turns out that there is a Modena, New York.. I knew there was a Modena, Italy.. but not New York.

 

[Whyren]

I guess my name's too common. Mostly I find that I'm a talented African-American basketball player or I'm a dead man from the mid-1800s. Go figure.