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- SwissCamel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+57It's times like this that I wish my parents hadn't christened me 'Free Sex'
- pwallroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+48I really dislike the phrase "In the age of Google". Google just finds *****, its the age of technology damnit.
- mickeyknoxxx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+48Out here in Hollywood, alot of wannabee's used to score hot super models with their taglines of making them famous or calling themselves directors or producers.
Now Google has totally ruined their game. Now the conversation goes like this.
BOB: Hi, I'm Bob.
Model: Hey, Bob what?
BOB: Bob Gensen Im a movie producer. I could maybe put you in a film sometime. You look like you've got some talent there.
Model: Really that's great! So it's Bob Gensen? G-E-N-S-E-N? Great. Give me your number. I'll go home and google you and if it checks out I'll give you a call.
Game Over. lol - Universal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16A really good way to control what online content and services are that connected to your name is by using http://www.claimID.com
ClaimID allows you to list all of the sites you are connected to, and list all of the sites that you aren't connected with (optional).
It's sort of like a digital resume of your links, which make it that much easier for potential employers and other people to tell what is really connected to your name online, and in search engines. - gamebittk, on 10/12/2007, -8/+22I'm Googles Well! Everybody is else is nobody.
- undershirt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14My dad's name didn't come up on google. Sorry dad, don't respect you anymore.
- Atom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Google my name and the very first hit is my Digg profile. No Joke.
- FormulaVette, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10My SSN didn't bring back any results.... Here you can try: 332-69-4419
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"she ran every baby name she and her husband, Justin, considered through Google to make sure her baby wouldn't be born unsearchable. Her top choice: *Kohler*"
Kohler? As in, the toilet maker?? - helinism, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I would die if my real name was listed on google... I can't believe people actually whore after being ranked by google!
- middleclassbuzz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I for one am glad nothing about me comes up on Google. Privacy is the new black, people.
- FatalTragedy316, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7It's pretty obvious that in this thread, nobody cares.
- SpriteMV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5So the real question is how many people DIDN'T google their name after reading this article...
- AceyS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+51,610,000 hits. Thats "first last". I know I'm gonna get dugg down, but I get crap for having such a generic name all the time, at least can I get this .0000001 seconds of fame?
- fawker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Hi, This is my son *Af5*snv(ms2% .. he's really going to BE somebody one day!
- rnelsonee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I have the same name as a famous singer from the 60's and 70's (Ricky Nelson), and I love it. All my stupid posts from Usenet (which Google indexed the entirety of) along with my asinine Digg posts get lost in the noise. So potential employers won't find anything stupid I've said. Balls. See? I can do that all day.
- Rooster99, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Apparently, when i google my full name Im apparently a 50 year old man, who is missing and presumed dead since the 60's! Freaky!!
- kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6They'll just IMDB their own real name, and if it's a producer/casting director, game back on.
( can IMDB be a verb now, too?) - Rassa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3When I Google my name even with the quotes I get zero results for me. Just the way I want it.
- streetstealth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I tried mine, 09F-91-1029, and my significant other's, D74-E3-5BD8, as well as a friend's, 415-6C-5635, and all we seemed to get was DVD cracking sites...
- psilanthropist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3its not the amount of reults. its the amount of "accurate" results. if i google my name, the first five pages are all accurate.
but i dont know why everyone wants thier name to google well. i would like to disappear of google completely. i wouldnt want information about me freely available to anybody and everybody. - digjedi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Another example that in this Google/Youtube/Myspace world that we are not all the same - I work for an internet content company and purposefully make sure my name if removed from content and not referenced on pages - even so far as spelling my name in special characters to not result in Google/Yahoo page searches. Take that "want to be famous" bitches. ;-)
- logic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have a unique last name, so I have to resort to trying my best not to say stupid things to begin with.
- noisuf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not that I have anything bad about me online, but I'd rather not be googled. The only thing that pulls up for me would be my myspace profile and my gaming teams website and its on like page 9 or something. Which is perfectly fine with me. I know a lot of job supervisors will try and google your name when applying for a job (atleast thats what i've heard). They check out your myspace, etc. Evil :>
- 5plic3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need! My name in print! That really makes somebody! Things are going to start happening to me now."
- ikimashokie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can't help that I share my first and last name with an actress/author/singer/jill-of-all-trades...
I never find myself on the internet, just her. - Experiment626, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Many Chinese families consult feng shui masters to select lucky names for their newborns. In a few years I expect SEO guys to be doing the same thing.
- guywhodoesstuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Mine keeps showing up on the sexual offender lis-.... Oh shoot....
- norcim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good idea. Type your name into the search so that all your searches will be associated with your real name.
While you are at it, type in your SSN to see what that brings up also. - AlphaDuo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1forget google, if you don't have an article about you on wikipedia you are _definitely_ nobody...
- OGla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The best way is to have a pretty unique last name and own that domain. Like I do. www.glauser.com So those of you with unusual last names check if your domains are available and register it immediately.
- SteveDeGroof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have a relatively unusual name. 12,000 hits on google, most of which refer to me in one way or another.
- obby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I totally agree. I don't want my name all over google. The day I am ungoogleable will be the day I have that false sense of privacy.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Used to be #1-15 on Google
Now im #3 or so because of some ***** blogger.... - fuzzmeister, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Personalized Results 1 - 10 of about 87,500,000
I feel common :-( - anthonyk28, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am the first and third results in a field of 1,530,000. Not bad. Well, that's google.ca but still.
- WinBear, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1If you google my real first and last name, you get a mediocre actor from the 80s with the same last name. However, he is usually credited by his full middle name rather than the nickname that matches my real first name. I don't show up until around #50 and that reference is about 12 years old, linking to site I haven't had since 1996.
- Jezper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm quite sure I'm the only one in the world who has my name. A search gives me 727 hits, and for as long as I managed to flick pages, they were all about me. Wohoo, I'm an e-lebrity! ;)
- burdalane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have an uncommon real name, so when I Google myself, most of the results are actually me. Unfortunately, my main website doesn't appear, probably because it doesn't have much content.
- ewang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Amusingly enough, as long as you're searching on my full name (Ewan Grantham), it's pretty much all me on Google. Of course if you just search for "Ewan" you get that actor fellow who mispronounces the name. It should be Ewan as in Obi-wan without the Ob rather than Uwin - of course the irony that he played the young Obi-wan...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is a good article on how to SEO your name
http://www.socialham.com/2007/02/24/how-to-seo-your-name/ - DavidDigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2As everyone knows, being "special" is the most important thing in life. This is just one of the many pearls of wisdom that Paris Hilton has bestowed upon us.
Welcome to the age of narcissism. - custerfluck, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5@kind robot
"They'll just IMDB their own real name, and if it's a producer/casting director, game back on.
( can IMDB be a verb now, too?)"
Stop verbing your nouns. - andrewmi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Let's see... "Andrew Miller" is an author, a member of Parliament, a rugby player, a rookie pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, and the kid actor who plays Jack (Dr Cox and Jordan's son) in Scrubs. I myself am not found through 200 results, although one of my permutations does get to work with boobies for a living! - http://www.edison-breast-implants.com/ That lucky guy.
I think the only way I'm going to get to the top is by inventing the flux capacitor or something.
Note: this is not spam; I could only wish that was me. - shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3bull
"Results 1 - 10 of about 55,300 for "My dad's name"." - kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So those who want privacy should change their name to John Smith.
Mark my words, post-HIRE googling will one day be considered a form of cyber-stalking. - niradg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4i'm so happy to be blessed with an unusual first name.
- clesch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well then... i for one enjoy being a nobody on google.
- mykos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I my real name is invisible to Google! Woohoo!
- airship, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My middle name is 'Robert', but Amazon listed it as 'Robbin' on all my books. After multiple attempts, I've given up on them ever making it right. The real 'Mark Robbin Brown' wrote a couple of scholarly math papers. I'm sure he's probably pissed that I totally took over his name. But if he's reading this, I want to assure him that it's not my fault. I'd gladly give him back his name and take back mine, if I could.
Everyone uses Amazon as a source, so to find me you have to Google 'Mark Robbin Brown', not 'Mark Robert Brown'. Using plain old 'Mark Brown' brings up 872,000 hits, most of whom aren't me. My first result is on page five. -
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