Googling Yourself!

[Robb]

Googling your real name, in quotes -- how many hits we talkin'?

[MissMillie]

1. 303

Apparently there is a country singer (from St. Louis) w/ my name. I'm not at all familiar w/ her.

[7th_Sephiroth]

61. 7290

neener neener neener

[everythingsxen]

2. With or without middle name?

With middle name: 3

Without 47,600

[trogdor]

42. There is only one way to properly google yourself.

"First M Last" The same name you put on your credit cards, in quotes. I got 97 hits, some of them rather interesting.

[everythingsxen]

72. Ok then..

with my middle initial... 2080 hits. :shrug:

I have a really common name.

[demnan]

3. 1,150

There are actually two people with my name who are writers/doctors/etc. also a couple of recipes by yours truly on Bartcop Cooks!

[eyesroll]

4. First and last: 22 (no quotes: 346)

First, maiden and last (or, how I'm known in the campaign): 11

First, middle initial, last (or, how I'm bylined): 1 (My company Web site isn't well indexed by Google, and my byline's wrong online most of the time anyway)

First and maiden (how my mom still addresses birthday cards sometimes): 14

[Rainbowreflect]

5. Only one for me.

It is a link to CNN transcript of my email that was read on CNN.

"Having Bush give a speech on corporate ethics is like having President Clinton give a speech on marital fidelity."

[Swede]

6. My name is the same as someone famous

so there was 63,000 hits.

[WoodrowFan]

13. same here

a cricket player of all things...

[indigo32]

7. 19,700

a fairly common name

[pmbryant]

8. It's like entering some weird parallel universe

The universe where I am a screenwriter, a children's book author, an 'Professor of Management Science', and numerous other things I've never done.

:crazy:

I got over 8000 hits. There's a lot of me out there.

--Peter

[pmbryant]

44. Added my middle initial, and now there are only 21 hits

And many of them actually referred to me.

Nice to be back in this universe. :D

--Peter

[absolutezero]

77. I'm apparently a bunch of different highschool students

all of them won scholarships in the last few years...and there's a chemistry proffesor at the university of oregon with my name. Odd considering that I'm a chem major

[supernova]

9. 6 hits - I stalk David Gilmour

The folks over at Metafilter think I stalk David Gilmour?!?!

ROFLMAO!!!!!!! :D :D :D

[RandomUser]

56. Is there something you're not telling us?

LOL...I've been wonder what you do when you're offline! :D

[supernova]

67. Heh, I stalk famously reclusive rock stars

apparently. }(

Up Next: Marilyn Manson

[THUNDER HANDS]

10. 13

I have a very unusual name, though. Only one other person in the country has it.

Plus, most of the stuff I wrote that was online is now taken down. I used to have about six pages worth of hits.

[uberotto]

11. 39 hits...

But only four are actually for me. There is a Teacher, a Dentist and a Classical Guitarist that share my name.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

12. 39...

that actually are me. I have an unusual name combined with an infamous political incident.

I ws shocked the first time I googled myself - I sort of felt naked!

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. But it is obviously another person with the same name.

She is an educator.

[RetroLounge]

15. Thousands!!! Millions!!! Infinity!!!

My name is also a Month, so it is a never ending list...

[Robb]

18. Ha HA!

(singing)

"RetroLounge is too google-icious!!"

:bounce:

[Endangered Specie]

19. 15 total

2 were for me

[CO Liberal]

16. 72

There are a few other people out there with the same name as me. One is a plant manager for the Corning Glass Works, and the other is a race car driver. Most of the hits involved them.

[On the Road]

17. Actually, I Ended Up With 141

and my name is pretty unique. A lot of them turned out to be online petitions I had signed or comments I had made on other message boards.

I actually found one instance where I had written a long commentary on early Jewish Christianity that had been published as a kind of letter to the editor on a site called Hollywood Jesus. The owner of the site had interlaced it with a lot of critical and uninformed comments. Would have been nice if he had told me.

Jack Neefus
College Park, MD

[scottcsmith]

20. 1280 hits

The Scott C. Smiths of the world include Dr. Scott C. Smith, PhD; Scott C. Smith, lawyer; Pastor Scott C. Smith; inmate Scott C. Smith, trying to get pen-pals with the Inmate Classified pen pal service. (I'm very buff)
http://www.inmate.com/inmates/scottsmith.htm

[bobja]

21. 15,200 for me

I have a very common name. I don't think any of those links actually refer to me though.

[cmf]

22. With quotes - 320.

My first and last names are both adjectives and nouns in the English language. It's an uncommon surname, so none of the hits are actually referring to any person (me included). All the hits are referring to things I happen to share a name with. Without quotes the hits go into the six figures.

[chaska]

23. Okay, that does it. I'm changing my name.

People running my name into the dirt.

[Terran]

24. 17

And some of those are my father, some are some guy, amazingly, with the same name. Mine is not a common name.

[Dead_Parrot]

25. None with my full name...

None with fistname+surname, just one if I just my middlename and surname...

edit: I'm a muppet.

[GOPisEvil]

26. 3,800 without middle initial; 49 with.

Models, teachers, singer/songwriters...

I'm not in there anywhere though. :shrug:

[Terwilliger]

27. 10,800 hits

:D

[VelmaD]

28. 8,790...

if you use my given name without the middle initial. Many of those are for a conservative talk radio personality out in California. Blah.

If you use my middle initial you get 2 hits - neither of which are me.

[TXlib]

29. 95 w/o middle initial, 2 with

I've got a very unusual name. There is only one other person on the planet who shares it. Most of the references are for him, as he is a network administrator, and most of the web references to me were from my grad school days, and most of them have been purged.

[TXlib]

30. This activity is AKA "egosurfing"

[SOteric]

45. Or for the uber-geeky, 'grepping.'

grep
<tool, information science> A Unix command for
searching files for lines matching a given regular
expression (RE). Named after the qed/ed editor
subcommand "g/re/p", where re stands for a regular expression,
to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the
lines containing matches to it. There are two other variants,
fgrep which searches only for fixed strings and egrep which
accepts extended REs but is usually the fastest of the three.

Used by extension to mean "to look for something by pattern".
When browsing through a large set of files, one may speak of
"grepping around". "Grep the bulletin board for the system
backup schedule, would you?" See also vgrep.



http://dict.die.net/grep/

[xJlM]

31. None by my first name

Eleven by my middle name (which is what I go by). Only one which is actually me.

[toddzilla]

32. 320.. four of which are me

Some race results from r/c racing, a membership listing to an r/c club and a website i designed that has me in the credits.

[Lizz612]

33. Two, but only one is me.

Actualy it has my yahoo email right next to it...
That may be a bad thing...
My name here actualy brings up some old DU posts! Haha!

Edit: The other woman is involved in community service programs for the state of Iowa. There are some relatives on my father's side of the family in Iowa, I wonder if she could be related...

[Lizz612]

40. Funny Story...

My friend Sam googled his name last year, and got a bunch of stats for races he had been in, X-country, but the sixth one down was a "Senior Hotties" list put up by some sophomores! Whats more, he was number one and the next guy was a "distant second." It went around the school lie wildfire and the site was never updated after that. He was unbelievably embarrassed!

[SOteric]

34. 213. A substantial portion of which really are me, or are a relative

with the same last name.

[hunter]

35. More than 10,000 and less than 100,000

Most of them are not me.

Add one or two choice words, and all of them are me.

No, I'm not telling.

[GregW]

36. 101 ... but ...

There are exactly two people on the Internet with my name.

There used to be only one, me.

The newcomer lives in ... get this ... the town I now live in.

So ... the two Greg W-----'s in the world are neighbors, which causes no end of trouble when we go to the doctor, or in my case more recently, when I applied for a CCW.

[northzax]

37. 1570, if you go with what everyone calls me

the nickname version. and you actually get me on page three, not bad considering one's a baseball player, and the other a musician (and a page full of track results from Connecticut)

[northzax]

38. 1570, if you go with what everyone calls me

the nickname version. and you actually get me on page three, not bad considering one's a baseball player, and the other a musician (and a page full of track results from Connecticut)

[Speck Tater]

39. 844, mostly having to do with...

...video games that have my name in the credits since I've been in the game business since the 1970's.

[Cush]

41. First and Last: 92,000

First, Middle, Last: 58,800

[Kolesar]

43. I better get my name off that atheists' list if I want to run for office!

Where I live, that would not be a plus.

[jono]

46. None with my full name.

287 with only my middle initial, but none of them are me.

12,700 with only my first and last names.

[HEyHEY]

47. about 95

Not all of them have to do with me..... Interesting enough there is another guy with the same name as me in the same field as me in britain..... he seems more established and I'm thinking about taking credit for his work on my next resume ;-).

I was suprised to see stuff on there that is years old that I had totally forgotten about.

[elcondor]

48. 408,000

Because, apparently, I share the name of a famous porn star! :o

[Shakespeare]

49. I'm EVERYWHERE

Apparently, I wrote some plays.

[goobergunch]

50. 196, but none of them are me.

"goobergunch" returns 107, all of which are me.

[Bossy Monkey]

51. Braiding Abbots n/t

[Plaid Adder]

52. My real name turns up bupkus, but the Plaid Adder

has 417 hits.

Some of those are on my own site...but still, it explains why I keep the name.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Myra]

65. Judges, should we accept this answer? :)

Or do we have to google our real names?

[Catholic Sensation]

53. I have seven

5 of which are me, two of which are links to two stories my father wrote using the anglicized version of his name...

[Deja Q]

54. 2,560,000 results, how am I supposed to narrow it?

:shrug:

[Bossy Monkey]

59. With quotation marks? I take it your name is Bill Gates

Even "John Smith" only gets 900,000.

If you're serious, add your middle initial or middle name

[Deja Q]

63. My middle initial shows...

But I did discover my name does coincide with, amongst other people, a certain Microsoft VP whose name is like mine.

My name with middle initial shows 845,000 results.

My full name shows 141,000 results.

My informal first name w/last name shows 686,000 results.

My name is a common one...

[KCDem]

55. tons with my maiden name, only a few with my married one

Found rather embarrassing pics, too.

[GOPisEvil]

64. Oooooooohhhhh

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[jhfenton]

57. 6180, but only a few are really me.

If I narrow the search a bit, I find 20 or 30 that are really me.

[ProudGerman]

58. 4,700 hits with my first and last name

On pages for people sharing just the first and last name, I've seen my death certificate (you know I saved that link, lol). I'm the President of Z&M Motor Line, a train company. I edited a book on Volunteering in Public Schools. I wrote a book on how to raise teenages, and a compainion book for teenagers. There's a memorial painting award named after me at Montgomery College-Rockville.

Using my middle initial with my first and last name yields jack squat. I'm stealth baby!

[ComerPerro]

60. 23,400

When I add my middle initial, 383. My first, middle and last names returns no results.

[slackdude]

62. 1390

The cool part is that the very first couple are actually me. Sticking a .com at the end of my name helps.

[ex_jew]

66. 301 - a 9/11 victim had my name including middle initial !

I had no idea.

[dobak]

68. 14

13 of them are about some small time race car driver with the same name

1 is my Amazon.com wishlist


???

[ACK]

69. Just over 1,000

I got a letter posted on Zdnet and short story on an online website and a number of technical posts.

Most of them revolved around progress on linux projects and such.

Also a college player has the same spelling of my name but I am about four down the list.

[Sting]

70. 2,256

[BritishHuman]

71. 702

And 9 out of the first 10 are me or references to me (the other being an Australian cricketer).

[populistmom]

73. 1,290

With middle initial- 18.
Maiden name- 11,800
Maiden name with initial- 120
First, full middle, and last- 36
First, full middle, and maiden- 154
First, maiden, and last name- 0

And none are about me because I do not do anything interesting!

[elfwitch]

74. Six

And of the six hits for my name, three of them actually are about ME!

[Nailzberg]

75. About 400 when I used "Steven ______" and about 800 w "Steve ____"

I had to look up both because I go by both.

[catzies]

76. 23,600. I win.

No shit.

My last name is Smith and my first name is just as common.

[Lady Freedom]

78. 11,000 hits!

WoW :wow:

[welshTerrier2]

79. Carefully Remaining Invisible

if you really want to know the truth, and frankly i'm a little embarrassed to admit this, i spend so much time on DU i've actually forgotten my real name ...

google search on "welshTerrier2" gets some hits ... not many though ... wonder why that is ... i've been posting here for a long time ....