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Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :

According to my google search of my name, I apparently am a well known cabinet and kitchen designer, an accomplished cook, and a sociology professor at the University of Washington all at the same time.

It almost gives me hope for my life and career, considering that none of the results were in anyway asociated with the porn industry.

Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :

My wife runs marathons in Alaska.

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

I've googled my name before... the weird thing is that the first seven or eight links that pop up are actually me.

O_O

I'm famous! [Razz]

Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :

Yes! Two things come up, gay porn (seriously), and a high school newspaper article I wrote which was taken without my permission and republished in militant socialist youth newsletters.

Stupid gay porn.

Stupid socialist youth newsletters.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Raia:
I've googled my name before... the weird thing is that the first seven or eight links that pop up are actually me.

O_O

I'm famous!

Yes, and you like a game called Broomsticks. [Big Grin]

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

It's a Harry Potter game! It's awesome!

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

quote:
a high school newspaper article I wrote which was taken without my permission and republished in militant socialist youth newsletters.

Good Grief!

What on Earth was the article ABOUT?

FG

Posted by Peter Howell (Member # 8072) on :

Aparently, I'm the guy who wrote the Dr. Who theme song... Sweet!

Posted by His Savageness (Member # 7428) on :

Just some random towns and stuff. [Frown]

I expected a little more, considering I have the most Mormon name ever: Spencer W. Romney

Posted by sarahdipity (Member # 3254) on :

All hits but one are about me if you type in my full name. Adam are you actually saying you started dating someone and didn't google stalk them? I'm quite surprised, shocked actually. Anyway, why are you in over your head?

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

quote:
But I just googled this girl I'm dating.

Man, even the idea creeps me out. I certainly won't be doing that. It feels too much like an invasion of privacy (I know, I know, the information is in the public domain, but it still bothers me).

Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :

The only genuine hit under my name is from a scholarship foundation newsletter. The scholarship foundation helped me in college, and I seem to have made a donation in 2003. I don't even remember that. [Razz]

Posted by sarahdipity (Member # 3254) on :

*laugh*

I have a friend who googlestalks girls before asking them on a first date. His reasoning is that hey, why not use all the filters you can get. I can honestly say I'm not *that* extreme. But I do googles stalk the people I date and even people I'm friends with. I don't make weird judgements on what I find. But it's interesting to see what people are up to. A lot of time they're in control of the content that's up there. My friends are endlessly amused by what they find about me.

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

I was in a cabaret in early December... and the guy who was running it came to me after I told him what I want to sing, and said "so, I hear you're quite the cabaret star already." I had been in another one January of last year, but there was nobody in the cast who knew that... except my little sister, but she didn't tell him. So I looked at him with sort of a wary expression on my face and asked how he knew that. Apparently he googled me, which I find mildly creepy. But he's a nice enough guy, I suppose. [Razz]

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

Yeah, the whole idea of doing a background check... ugh. No. If I'm curious about something, I just ask.

I met a girl at a formal a few years ago. We arranged to meet a couple of days later to hang out, and she revealed that in the interim she had found and looked over my website (which at the time was stored on my university webspace, so the URL was an obvious derivative of my university email address).

I was slightly creeped out. I want to get to know someone by interacting with them, not by doing internet searches.

Posted by Lucky4 (Member # 1420) on :

I've both googled and been googled by potential dates.

*shrug*

One guy and I had a good laugh when we "came clean" about it on our second or third date together and shared the things we'd learned. I think it's pretty standard practice these days, for better or worse.

Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :

What's the trick way to tell google you're interesting in searching for a name, not the three words separately?

It's something like -

somecodeword: personsname

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

I just use quotation marks to make it find the exact wording together

Posted by Astaril (Member # 7440) on :

Weird. It's never occurred to me that people would look me up who don't know me. I find it creepy as well. The extent of my googling people is trying to find out when and where old professional musical friends I've lost touch with are playing their next concert so I can go see them.

In other news, looking up my own name, I'm a very fashionable and famous tiara designer in the UK, a friend of the Florida Everglades, and a South Carolina anti-teen-pregnancy committee member. Also a whole lot of people's dead relative.

Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :

I, apparently, was Edgar Allan Poe's best friend. The real me wasn't listed.

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

Oh, btw, the links that aren't me don't have my name. They have someone with my first name, and people with my last (often related to me).

I guess my name is unique. [Smile]

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

When I google my full name, ever link I get is really about me (I'm unique).

However it is cool because, although I have done it many times before, this time it showed me that I was listed on my congressman's web page as a 'recent visitor" to his office (when we went to Washington D.C. in May) Cool!

Farmgirl

edit: Lucky4 -- I have always googled, or data-mined, any potential dates. Tough if they don't like it -- this helps me pick out the liars right off the bat, so I don't get attached to someone and then find out they aren't always upfront and honest. You can't be too careful these days. And I wouldn't mind if they did the same to me.

Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :

There are 6 zillion hits on my name, but when you take away the ones related to geneaology projects, it falls to about 14 hits. 13 of which are about some doctor with my name, and one about me. Not about me, just mentioning me in passing (an author whose mistake I corrected).

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

Most of the links are about me, but there are only a handful anyway. Oh well, the mistery of "me" remains! [Razz]

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

The thing I can't figure out.

When I google my name -- although the hits are few, it shows some pretty obscure links (posts I've made on various forums, a letter to the college paper, my listing as webmaster of a local city website) but it doesn't ever hit on my family homepage -- even though that has my name all over it. I wonder why that is?

Farmgirl

Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :

Google hasn't cached your family homepage...small potatoes.

Me and my brother's names show up nowhere, I guess because we both have always been too cautious to put our real names on the internet. But my dad's, on the other hand, is everywhere (mostly due to him being in newspapers that archive online).

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

My husband apparently builds clocks. He is also a drummer/band leader (actually, I saw him at the Hollywood Bowl one time-- not my husband, the guy with the same name). Then, of course, there are the things actually about him.

Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Farmgirl:
The thing I can't figure out.

When I google my name -- although the hits are few, it shows some pretty obscure links (posts I've made on various forums, a letter to the college paper, my listing as webmaster of a local city website) but it doesn't ever hit on my family homepage -- even though that has my name all over it. I wonder why that is?

Farmgirl

I *think* that search engines look in the meta tags in the HTML document as a primary source for information, for example:

code:

<meta name="keywords" content="blah, blah, blah"> 
<meta name="description" content="description">

So maybe if you put some of those in your html google will eventually pick them up.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

It's not just that. Google also ranks sites by how often other sites link to them. No one is apparently linking to Farmgirl's family's homepage.

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

Here’s a pretty cool site for stalkers.

http://www.zabasearch.com

It returned every address I’ve ever lived at since the early 80s, and two addresses that my folks have lived at since I left for college.

Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :

Is that just google or all the search engines?

Because all the search engines look in the meta tags, right?

Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :

Apparently I'm on a lot of LotR related forums, and the author of a lot of slash fanfic. [Eek!]

Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :

I've tried googling my own name, it never turns up an results that are me, my name is not that unique.

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

Well, I'm not sure I actually WANT my homepage to show up on a Google search. I was just expressing my surprise that it didn't find it. But yeah, I don't have many outgoing links, and I doubt any other site links to me -- so that would explain it. And -- I hand-coded my site in notepad and didn't include any metatags at all when I created it. So I guess that is a good thing -- only those people I want to see it will see it.

FG

Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :

My name is fairly common but one of the web pages I built in college does show up as number one in google rankings. The page is so ugly I kind of wish it would just go away. Unfortunately I have long forgotten the password to that geocities account. [Wall Bash]

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

Astaril, I'm glad I'm not the only one who is creeped out by the idea.

If I met a girl and she gave me her name but not her number, I wouldn't look it up in the phone book. If she wanted me to have her number she'd have given it to me (and if I really wanted it I would have asked for it). I certainly wouldn't look up her address even if she gave me both her name and phone number. I believe, very strongly, that personal information is to be revealed by the person in question. In my view, as a prospective suitor I am entitled to ask any question I like, and that includes "can I do a background check on you?" but I am not entitled to do such a background check (e.g. via Google) myself without so much as a "hey, I'm going to Google you, is that cool?"

This is why I could never actually be a rock star. My personal information is, well, mine. Added: Again, I'm aware that information on the internet is public-domain; what I'm talking about is respect for privacy and good taste.

Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

Twinky, so you'd never want to find out anything about a girl through online sources? How very odd.

Most of this I already knew without googling, but I am:
An anchorman
A sportscaster (different channel)
A pro football player
A pro baseball player
A tarot-deck artist
A web designer
A composer (the score for The Crow, amoung others)
A PhD receipient from MIT
An adult-video director
A dedicated member of the brewing industry
Not guilty by reason of insanity (murder, 2001)
A pro hockey player
Part of the "Moped Army"
A bankruptcy lawyer
A couple of doctors
...

No mention of the actual me in the first 20 pages, though I know I'm in there somewhere.

--Enigmatic

Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :

It's called "Ego Surfing" and I do it now and again.

There are a fair number of people with my maiden name. Most of them little girls in Utah.

I get no hits what so ever with my married name. Probably because the combination of a welsh first name with a jewish last name is rare.

Pix

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

twinky -- what was your real name again...??? [Wink]

Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

I already tried googling him, Farmgirl. Apparently he's a snackcake!

--Enigmatic

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

I also don't* use the "recent posts by" function here, even (especially) on people I've met in person. I don't keep tabs on anyone else's posts. If someone says something they want me to see and I don't happen to read the relevant thread, there's always email.

So in that sense, anyway, you're right... but that statement is just a wee bit too broad to be strictly accurate. [Razz]

*I think I might have used it once. That's how I know the functionality exists.

Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :

I only have one link to myself. Most of the results are just links to my distant relative from NZ who worked on Lord of the Rings.

Which is kind of cool, actually.

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

full name in quotes, 5 hits, all legitimately me. Two are work related, the other three are fun stuff. My favorite is this one [Big Grin]

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

wow -- did they pay you for the use the photo you took? [Smile]

Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :

I just Googled my full name and discovered I was murdered in 1977. [Angst]

Seriously, it freaked me out. Girl had a different middle name, but still, seeing my name connected with a murder made it feel too real.

That was the only hit I found that wasn't me, though. Everything else was me.

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

FG: Contributor's copies - SIGNED by Scott! Plus I had an entire page of pictures on Ridley Pearson's website for about 6 months after the show, which is actually how Scott got in touch with me to get my permission to use the picture.

I think I told the story of that night before... if not, I'll use it for a landmark <eyeing postcount>

Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :

quote:
Good Grief!

What on Earth was the article ABOUT?

It was about my high school taking measures to prevent the formation of a socialist club while allowing other non-school related clubs (such as the UFO club). I would describe it as an investigative editorial accusing the school of playing politics.

I was 16, what did I know?

(Not that I wasn't absolutely right!)

Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

I can't find it, but I swear I remember a special google search that just gave you the first sentences of websites when you searched with your name, so you ended up with a list like this...

sndrake is a real wanker.
when it comes to cat-slinging, sndrake is the master.
sndrake came to CalTech in 1988.

And so on...

Anyone else remember this?

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

Oh my freak. I couldn't find anything under my name, but I just found my first boyfriend from when I was 15! He had a unique name, and I know enough about him to be pretty sure its him.

I'm just a little "weirded out" right now. [Razz]

Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :

Googlism, sndrake.

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

Oh my freak, bev!

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

quote:
I'm just a little "weirded out" right now

Why, Bev? Did the links indicate he had turned out weird or something?

Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

Tick, Adam -- Thanks!

(Just used it and was reminded once again why I never use "Steve" as my first name in anything I write. [Eek!]

)

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

Naw, he was already weird. ^_^

It's just one of those "blast from the past" things. He's the guy I wrote about in my second landmark as my first love.

He actually sent me a random email a few years ago, and we chatted a bit. But then I never heard from him again. I actually would like to have stayed in touch with him.

I actually sent him an email based on the one on the link, but it is several years old. I have no idea if the account is still active or anything. It would be fun to chat with him again.

Posted by Desdemona (Member # 7100) on :

O_O

O_O

If I google my full name in brackets, I get the messages that I've posted to my school's "news" e-mail folder.

Posted by Choobak (Member # 7083) on :

Very amazing ! I have three answer : A bassist (like me but in better), a movie maker, and... me !

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

I sent him an email, unsure if the address was still good, and heard back already! w00t!

[Smile]

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

I'm

a famous academic and feminist who lectured Law at the University of Leicester and who has Law school prizes named after her [Big Grin]

.

a person who writes video games.

someone who almost could have been me, which is kind of creepy, but probably isn't. O.o

a fashion show producer.

a mother of two.

an operations manager for a financial company of some kind.

someone born October 28th, 1900 in Clarksville, Texas.

a "voiceover talent", heh.

a freelance theatrical costume designer.

someone with "delicious but deadly" recipe for Mississippi Mud Pie [Big Grin]

.

...and more. I suppose that's what I get for having a common name.

I have used google to search for people I used to know, but lost touch with. It was a strange experience. It never occured to me to use it as a source of information on people I still knew...

Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :

AFR, that site is CREEPY! It has phone numbers for crying out loud! And while it doesn't have me exactly, it has both my parents, our addresses in all three of the houses we've lived in in the past 12 years, and both my parents BIRTHDAYS!

at least the satelite photo feature didn't work...

On a lighter note, when I google my name the first two are the Circus Smirkus website (one link even has a picture), the third is a news article about me being on tour with Smirkus, and the fifth is the minutes from a school board meeting at which I spoke.
Then it turns to stuff about my dad, because he has several websites, has published a book, and is a member of all sorts of stuff.

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

AFR's site has two recent addresses, but one of the phone numbers listed isn't one I recognize. Since I haven't lived at that address for 3 years and it didn't show up on my credit report as a bad account, I'm not sure if it's worth a call to the phone company to find out what the deal was there.

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

Ooo, I hadn't even seen the site AFR posted. Wow! I didn't know something like that existed. Not for free, anyway.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

That ZabaSearch is impressive, although it has significant gaps. It doesn't know my current address -- not surprising, since I'm not on any of the bills by name, and have only been here 10 months. (Although I did change my car registration, voter registration, and license.) It does know my previous address, and the one before that (but not the one before that). It doesn't know me at all by my maiden name.

It also knows my date of birth.

As for Google, it tells me that I have a PhD, am an assistant professor, and got married in Israel last month.

The hits that are actually me are from a etymology site that I asked a couple questions of, and guestbooks I signed from the same site that thinks I'm married. (But there seems to be yet a THIRD person (on the one site!) with my name, also signing guestbooks there.)

First name and maiden name pulls up surprisingly few hits, none of which are particularly interesting -- or me.

As far as the "to Google or not" issue, I routinely Google everything and everyone -- people I know are no exception. And I fully expect that anyone who knows my full name may do the same -- which is part of why I'm careful about giving out my last name. (And checked, before posting this, to be sure that many Rivkas come up when searching for the combination of Rivka and "assistant professor.")

Posted by CRash (Member # 7754) on :

I got a grand total of 10 sites, 9 of which weren't even people with my name, just comments that included a person with my first name and the word "rash". The other was about my debate record at the Conway Classic. I guess I'm one of a kind. Although a friend of mine is apparently both a champion jockey and a college professor.

Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

Here are a few from googlism using the short version of my first name (carefully edited for content):

I am:

the president and founder of northern tier outdoors

a very competent director and videographer

the research analyst for Not Dead Yet

a wild non stop sex extravaganza

a proponent of groff's methods

(one of these is correct)

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

I Googled myself once, but only because I was going out alone and wanted to make sure I wasn't a drug-addled serial killer.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Were you?

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

Good news. I contacted the telephone company. Their records show that the number in question was registered to my former mother in law at that address, my name and SSN don't show up anywhere on that account. So the site created a link that wasn't valid.

I'm still concerned about the fact that between my name and the ex's name, every single one of our addresses and phone numbers since graduating high school is listed! I'm seriously thinking it's worth the extra money to the phone company to get a blocked listing...

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*notes Chris failure to answer*

*ulp*

Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :

rivka, we should also be worried about sndrake, depending on which one of those it is that's correct...

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Except that I've been in his office at Not Dead Yet . . . so I think we're ok.

Posted by Peter (Member # 4373) on :

Lets see, I'm:
An Illusionist
College Football Player
Junoir in Highschool
An Athletic Trainer
A published writer
And a Chancellor for something called The people's Free Republic of Sherwood

Aren't I talented? [Big Grin]

Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :

Most of the links for my name are actually me.

In fact, with my middle initial, I have to go to the middle of page four to find a link that *isn't* me.

[Angst]

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

Cow, I'm getting a "cannot find server" error. However, I'm getting this on a couple other sites as well, so I don't know if there's a problem with my 'net access from work or if there's another issue.

Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :

Site works fine here.

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

Good, I'm glad to hear that, kaioshin. I'd much rather know it's just me (or my office, as the case may be) than someone else's site.

Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :

I didn't use to have anything for my name, but in the last six months I've made the net about 5 times for playing music.

Anybody else have any changes?

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

I don't exist, although someone with part of my name is a famous set designer....

Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :

*dies* I just found an online review of a synthpop band I was in in high school.

"...an innovative hybrid between 80s synth pop/new wave and modern metal. Formed in 2001, Chris Yarber (vocals/synth guitar), Josh Bush (guitar), Marty Ringheisen (bass) and Pearce Holland (Synthesizer) are bringing a futuristic wave of music to the florida alt-scene."

[ROFL]

-pH

Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :

Googlism doesn't know enough about me to come up w/ any funny lists.

There were a number of Norwegian language hits that are completely unintelligible to me.

It's been a while since I've googled myself, so I was surprised that there were several legitimate ones--mostly newsletters or editorial projects I've worked on. And one comment to a Washington Post online chat from YEARS ago when I shoulda been working! ;-)

Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :

Oh my gosh -- I just kept googling and searched on a name I hadn't thought of in ages. A guy I had a HUGE crush on it college, then lost track of. Google turned up a hit from the Social Security Death Index--I know it was him because it was a very unusual name and the vital stats are all correct. He died before I even graduated, twenty years ago!! He had hemophelia but I don't think I ever really understood at the time how serious that was. He was a bit of a risk-taker and I remember it was hard for him to curtail his activities. I just looked at a site on the disease and see that they have made great strides in treatment in the past 20 years. I'm so sorry it was not in time to save my friend. The world could use more people like him.

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

I am on page 22 of the google search of my name.

Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :

A search on my maiden name brings up a lot of hits that are really me. In fact, only one hit is someone else.

My married name is rather more common. At the top of the list is an Irish fiddler/dancer who's apparently fairly popular.

I had actually done these searches when I was trying decide what name to publish under. I went with a shortening of my first name with my married name, because I didn't want to compete with the fiddler/dancer for google hits.

--Mel

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

I did this about three or four years ago, when there was a thread about it, and it was how I learned that my grandfather had once been arrested for plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro.

[Eek!]

Posted by sweetbaboo (Member # 8845) on :

This is a helpful tool when searching for information for your family history. Use it all the time to search for ancestors names. It's usually interesting what turns up. (Icarus is a great example) [Wink]

Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :

Googling my name results in all kinds of madness, almost all of it mine, from my youth...dozens of old webpages, etc.

The most irritating thing, though, is that the vast majority of the hits are my Amazon.com reviews, and hundreds of other websites stealing them.

Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :

I googled myself (does that sound dirty somehow?) I have an unusual last name so it was all me. Most depressing, on the third page was a link to a blog entry of an old acquaintance talking about how old and fat I was. This did not make my day!

Posted by Hamson (Member # 7808) on :

Apparantly, I'm an amazing hypnotist, and I "WILL EXCEED YOUR EXPECTATIONS AT YOUR NEXT FAIR, BANQUET, CONVENTION, SHOW, FESTIVAL OR FUND-RAISER WITH HIS ..."

*taken from short description when searching on Google

Posted by Historian (Member # 8858) on :

Hatrack discovers ego-surfing

Googlism doesn't find enough info, but then I've made a point of staying under the radar.

Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :

Two or three days after Fahim and I met online, I Googled him. He's got thousands of hits that are actually him. I figured it was a good way to find out if he was a liar or a good guy. [Big Grin]

When I Google me, most of what shows up is me.

Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :

My mom Googles the men I date as soon as she finds out their full names.

It can be rather embarassing.

Nowadays, I don't tell her when I'm seeing anyone. I just say I'm "hanging out with my friend, Joe-Bob."

-pH

Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :

Yes-- just NMS stuff in the local newspaper and on my school website.

--j_k

Posted by mimsies (Member # 7418) on :

Huh... I regularly google myself to make sure I don't show up.

Had an ex-boyfriend who tracked me down a few times through searches. Since then I try to make sure I don't show up. I have not been as careful in here as I should be, and need to be more careful from now on..

I once had to go to church and ask me to take my name off because I don't need him knowing my church or even city.

Creepy guy

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

I am listed under some programs for music, plus some scholarship announcements from Highschool. Other than that I am a member of the nebraska community foundation, and I am listed next to a "Gay Wintermote." I was also convicted of sexual assault in the midwest in 1996, I have subsequently passed away.

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

quote:
Hatrack discovers ego-surfing

As I noted before, this isn't new to Hatrack. Memes re-emerge periodically, and that's pretty cool, because a whole new set of people get to enter the conversation, rather than feeling that it's all been said.