Same for me. I have an Americanized German surname so there are only about 100 people in the world with it. I had 5 pages but almost all of them are road race results.Macaddicttt said:
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Have you Ever Googled your Name?
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So, Mike, are you planning a jailbreak? Need any help? Will there be a reward for double-crossing you and turning you back into the authorities?mikemodena said:
A few years ago I recieved a scholarship to study in Japan, and my teacher said she put something on her website about me, so I commenced a'googlin'...
I immediately found out that I was a South American assassin from the 1970's (the decade I was born, man I started early) and that I apparently got captured by the CIA and was eventually dealt with. My actual person is on about 10 diiferent pages, mostly university honors lists (along with hundreds of others).
I guess I shoulda studied ninjistu while in Japan to hone my skills...
I immediately found out that I was a South American assassin from the 1970's (the decade I was born, man I started early) and that I apparently got captured by the CIA and was eventually dealt with. My actual person is on about 10 diiferent pages, mostly university honors lists (along with hundreds of others).
I guess I shoulda studied ninjistu while in Japan to hone my skills...
I share my last name with a porn star. (alba parietti) 9,200 hits with out . 19 with. The only thing that comes up is stuff from Mac Rumors (when I post my email) and cnet reviews.
9,200 hits with out . 19 with. The only thing that comes up is stuff from Mac Rumors (when I post my email) and cnet reviews.
Googled my name - found a very impressive Mortgage Broker and Christian Scientist, both have abused my name on the web. BIZARRE part was - 4 years ago I had to call on the Mortgage Broker on a business matter. His secretary (thought it was a prank due to same name as her boss) would not put my call through until I told her I was "Zach Tinsington" (just googled "Zach Tinsington" and get a 'You mean ,,,Zach Kensington....) Later I had to call on some of his rivals- and when I introduced myself they were quick and reverant in taking my call. Until they found out who I was....
i seem to be a music producer, a clarinetist, a game designer, a game producer, a museum curator, and editorial director of book management for the new york times, out of ~39.5k results. i couldnt find any that were me. i suppose alex ward is a fairly common name..
blaskillet4 said:Out of bordom, I decided to google my name... I got almost 2 million results
Got freaked out! After going through some of them, I didn't see any that had me in particular, seems my name is pretty generic. Whew.
Has anyone else done this?
Sometimes....when nobody's around...and I'm feeling lonely....
Yeah...I've googled myself. What? Everybody does it? Right?
I get some strange language. But if I throw my state in there too, the first 5 are all me baby.
****. With quotes, there was only one return. And that is me.
No quotes? About 1,660,000 results.
No quotes? About 1,660,000 results.
17300 hits for my name (Chris Mahoney). #21 is the first one that's actually me. It's an HTMLification of a Usenet post I made a couple of weeks ago
Now for the weird bit. If I set Google to search NZ only, it returns 57 hits and none of them are me.
Now for the weird bit. If I set Google to search NZ only, it returns 57 hits and none of them are me.
Results 1 - 10 of about 48,600,000 for 'Alan ******'. (0.52 seconds)
I have a very geneic name, but 'of about 48,600,000' is a tad more than I expected!
And this is WITH quotes!
I have a very geneic name, but 'of about 48,600,000' is a tad more than I expected!
And this is WITH quotes!
I have done it sometimes. I tryed to Google my name and my nicks, and the results that I get hadn't new for me.
Dima
Dima
MongoTheGeek said:
Forgive me for asking, I'm not the best english scholar. But what on earth is an imperative sentence???
For me, roughly 2+ years ago the only result came up as some bum whom lived in England with his mom, that ripped off wellfare for several years up till he got caught at the age of 43. Pathetic. That left me seriously depressed back then. Now, after 7+ pages I find nothing that ties my first & last name together to anyone, nada nothing. My first name is a last name in the US, and my last name is just way too mundane.
To this day though I'm searching to see some relation to a Jamaican president >> no longer for unclaimed money being interest for an heir, but just for some meaning. Scarry thing though he served 1 year in office and only picture online is of one of the bills. And he looks identical to my father. Real scarry.
If I search on the name I normally use, nearly all the hits are about a Exeter footballer who appears to be a bit crap. I actually got an email to a hotmail account once from some guy asking if I was the footballer.
If I search on my full name with the middle initial I get one hit which is actually about me...here it is
If I search on my full name with the middle initial I get one hit which is actually about me...here it is
I got 44.2 million hits without quotes, 464,000 hits with quotes. D'uh, what did I expect? My name is pretty generic. Most of the hits deal with either John Jacob Astor (a multimillionaire who sunk with the Titanic) or John Jacob Niles.
for google, i got almost 16,500 hits!
its interesting to see all the pele with your exact name and what they do....program coordinator, annual giving fund.....lol
tastic
its interesting to see all the pele with your exact name and what they do....program coordinator, annual giving fund.....lol
tastic
Well for my name there are 17,900,000 results (I have a pretty common name). My full name (with quotes) returns 33 results with me being the fourth.
But if you narrow the general search (first and last name without quotes) by adding one additional term that has something to do with me like Rhapsody (I'm the fourth result on the first page) or topology (I'm the number one result then) or OPENSTEP (again I'm the number one result) I usually end up on the first page.
I have no idea how or why Google ranks me in the way it does with all those other people with the same name as me.
Actually, I can remember how surprised I was to find my own site in Google. Once I realized that Google was caching all my pages (and updating/adding them within a week of me making changes), I decided to add a Google site search to my site. It returns 355 page results on my site (I have a lot of stuff on my site ).
Oddly enough there are 256,000 results for RacerX. And if you add an additional term (like OPENSTEP, NEXTSTEP or Rhapsody) I'm most of the results on the first couple pages.
But if you narrow the general search (first and last name without quotes) by adding one additional term that has something to do with me like Rhapsody (I'm the fourth result on the first page) or topology (I'm the number one result then) or OPENSTEP (again I'm the number one result) I usually end up on the first page.
I have no idea how or why Google ranks me in the way it does with all those other people with the same name as me.
Actually, I can remember how surprised I was to find my own site in Google. Once I realized that Google was caching all my pages (and updating/adding them within a week of me making changes), I decided to add a Google site search to my site. It returns 355 page results on my site (I have a lot of stuff on my site
).Oddly enough there are 256,000 results for RacerX. And if you add an additional term (like OPENSTEP, NEXTSTEP or Rhapsody) I'm most of the results on the first couple pages.
Prom1 said:Forgive me for asking, I'm not the best english scholar. But what on earth is an imperative sentence???
Imperative usually refers to the verb conjugation. Specifically, it is the command form of the verb. For example, the verb "to dance" is the infinitive form whereas if you were to point a gun at someone's feet (old west style) and say "Dance, varmint!" That would be the imperative.
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240 google entries when I search for my name, most of which are about me (I have a very uncommon last name).
Mostly letters to the editor from local papers, announcements about me graduating from high school / college, and there were even a few MacWorld / Macrumors posts referenced on there!
240 google entries when I search for my name, most of which are about me (I have a very uncommon last name).
Mostly letters to the editor from local papers, announcements about me graduating from high school / college, and there were even a few MacWorld / Macrumors posts referenced on there!
10 results for mine full name, with quotes.
1 was unreleated to me.
1 was a very old list of usernames, including my old nick.
3 gave me 404's (but was likely related to me).
5 was related to my entry in the NYT Firefox ad.
My last name is more commonly used as a first name (when I say my full name, people often ask me for my last name, even though I already said it), and my first name is relatively uncommon too.
10900 results if I search without quotes.
21500 results for 'dubbz'.
Almost all are completely unrelated to me.
Think I need to find a new nick
1 was unreleated to me.
1 was a very old list of usernames, including my old nick.
3 gave me 404's (but was likely related to me).
5 was related to my entry in the NYT Firefox ad.
My last name is more commonly used as a first name (when I say my full name, people often ask me for my last name, even though I already said it
), and my first name is relatively uncommon too.10900 results if I search without quotes.
21500 results for 'dubbz'.
Almost all are completely unrelated to me.
Think I need to find a new nick