(Just used it and was reminded once again why I never use "Steve" as my first name in anything I write. )
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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.
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If I google my full name in brackets, I get the messages that I've posted to my school's "news" e-mail folder.
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Very amazing ! I have three answer : A bassist (like me but in better), a movie maker, and... me !
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a famous academic and feminist who lectured Law at the University of Leicester and who has Law school prizes named after her .
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 .
...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...
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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.
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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.
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Ooo, I hadn't even seen the site AFR posted. Wow! I didn't know something like that existed. Not for free, anyway.
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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.")
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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.
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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.
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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...
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rivka, we should also be worried about sndrake, depending on which one of those it is that's correct...
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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? Posts: 283 | Registered: Jan 2003
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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.
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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.
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*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."
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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! ;-)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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) Posts: 697 | Registered: Nov 2005
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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
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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.
When I Google me, most of what shows up is me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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