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sonambulo

Diamond Member
Feb 22, 2004
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Newp. I was and still am very careful about linking my real name to anything on the internet so as far as I know there are no traces of my real life on any publicly available section of the internet. Fortunately there is someone else who has my name and he is a publicity whore so even if my name were to show up on the internet it would be buried by pages upon pages of his bullshit.
 

Paladin3

Diamond Member
Mar 5, 2004
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My last name is extremely rare. I've never met anyone with it who was not related to me. At first I thought my grandfather, whom I never met, had it misspelled when he immigrated to the U.S. Now I'm finding out it is probably a Russian name.

If I do FIRST LAST then I get 29 hits that are all me. Just LAST and I get 81 hits and many are me or my family, but a few are in Russian and people I've never met.
 

SWScorch

Diamond Member
May 13, 2001
9,520
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Apparently not. I have an extremely common first and last name. But apparently I am the guitarist for Three Doors Down. I remember I discovered that when I started playing guitar and was doing some research. I hopped on the Ibanez or ESP website and clicked a link for a certain model, and saw "People who play this guitar: ", followed by my name. I was a little freaked out about that; "How the heck did they get my name????" Then I saw who he was.

EDIT: with my middle initial, I do get a link to the results of a race I ran on Thanksgiving on the first page, and a few more a few pages later.
 

Orsorum

Lifer
Dec 26, 2001
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Very much so, type in my name and the city where I work and the first few hits are all me.
 

BornStar

Diamond Member
Oct 30, 2001
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No. My last name is a word that occurs in everyone's biography so unless I become extremely famous I don't think Google is going to work on me. I also don't really do anything internet-worthy so I doubt I appear in the first 100 pages.
 

2Xtreme21

Diamond Member
Jun 13, 2004
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I am, but I have a very common name. You have to add some extra stuff to the search query to really find where I'm mentioned.
 

Cdubneeddeal

Diamond Member
Oct 22, 2003
7,473
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I googled myself and found out that City Data stole one of my pictures of a sunset here in Bellingham. They gave me credit for it but I didn't physically upload it to their site.
 

TridenT

Lifer
Sep 4, 2006
16,800
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I exist.. Shows local newspaper with me in it (GPA Stuff). Um, it also shows.. a few other things. Facebook and twitter. I hide my myspace name.. I think I need to hide everything. If my parents googled me, I would be unhappy boy.
 

pontifex

Lifer
Dec 5, 2000
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Originally posted by: Finalnight
Everyone here is googleable. Don't you know that all ATOT'ers are highly successful and well respected members of the community who made their first 100k at age 18?

100k? pffft!

dude, it's more like first million...
 

Deeko

Lifer
Jun 16, 2000
30,213
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Yes, but I have a pretty common name so its hard to find results that are actually me. If add things to the query, like what school I went to, it comes up me.
 

krotchy

Golden Member
Mar 29, 2006
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Lol, my Facebook page is the #1 overall search result for my name formatted like this: "First Last". Theres 215 overall mostly for other people/
 

nageov3t

Lifer
Feb 18, 2004
42,808
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there's this guy in Connecticut with my exact same name, who went to school for the exact same thing I did, and is a professor of enligh lit in come school in CT. he's the first 2 google results when you google my name, and I'm the third.

sometimes I think about driving to CT and seeing if I can stalk him just to see what he looks like.
 

Zebo

Elite Member
Jul 29, 2001
39,398
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I'm still on my former employers web page...retired 2 years ago.
 

Ken g6

Programming Moderator, Elite Member
Moderator
Dec 11, 1999
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I get a lot of hits, mostly for finding various primes. I recognize 14 of the first 15 as me.

But it seems I'm also a partner in an English law firm. I didn't know that! :p

My username also gets lots of hits that are me.