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Subject: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Genie Date: 08 Jul 05 - 10:30 PM A while ago someone suggested "googling yourself" as an interesting diversion. I did and was surprised not only at how many listings they had for me (more than 5 or 6) but at what they were! One was a listing of a freakin' Study Guide for a developmental psych. text book I did back in the early '70s! But what most surprised me is that some of my submissions to the Mudcat Songbook -- the ones published under my real name -- were there. I guess that's cool? At least so far I haven't had any problems from that. But I'm wondering how many of you have googled youself (and do you feel kind of dirty when you do?). And what kinds of listings have you found that surprised you? Genie |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 08 Jul 05 - 10:32 PM Surprised me? None... mine is still the first website hit you get when you google my name... :-) |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Genie Date: 08 Jul 05 - 10:41 PM LOL, Clinton. Yeah, I'd hope your self-titled website would pop up if you have one! But if you don't have a website, I'm wondering how somethings get connected to your name and some don't. E.g., the one actual published research study I co-authored did not show up in a search for my name, but the trivial study guide did. And I think at least one of my Mudcat SongChallenge! entries did, too. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: thespionage Date: 08 Jul 05 - 11:06 PM I googled myself accidentally. I was googling my musical partner, I am half of Russ & Eli, just to discover that someone had posted in a blog lyrics to a parody that I wrote, performed only once, and recorded differently than the performance. Oddly enough, I tried to figure out who posted my unpublished lyrics, but, alas, the site had just re-tooled and the post is now gone forever. Googling oneself and one's friends can be entertaining indeed. Russ |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: katlaughing Date: 08 Jul 05 - 11:19 PM Last time I checked the first thing that came up was my book at cafepress.com. It'd better be the first thing! Way back when I was surprised to find one of my op/ed pieces quoted in a speech given by the head of the federal dept. of fish and wildlife, if I remember correctly. I was pleased that he cited my article. I also found myself quoted on someone's website of fav. quotes; another instance of one of my op/ed pieces being read somewhere.:-) Lots of Mudcat postings show up as well as those I've posted on genealogical sites. kat |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 08 Jul 05 - 11:38 PM Google has 110 entries for my name. About a dozen of them are due to an interview I gave when my buddy Jerry's National Beard Registry website got picked up as a public interest story by the "national media". The rest of 'em are all related to a single message over at Tweed's Blues in which someone was needing my address to send me a CD. What Tweed did that caused a thread that only had two messages to be picked up by Google almost a hundred times is a mystery but, hey, we're talkin' about Tweed here. And, Genie, who was the author of the Developmental Psych book you did the study guide for? I used to be in the textbook biz and may have actually held a copy of your study guide in my hand. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Midchuck Date: 08 Jul 05 - 11:46 PM I appear to have been "one of the founders of the Findhorn Society," whatever that is. It appears to have had something to do with the Rosicrucians. Scary. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: harpgirl Date: 08 Jul 05 - 11:52 PM when I google myself I get my ex-husband and his other ex-wife all on the same page...plus his brother's ex-wife and his dad. I thought I got out of that family!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: JennyO Date: 08 Jul 05 - 11:55 PM Well, it seems there are a lot of people with my name, who are not me, but I come up 6 times because I run a folk club and sometimes write reviews for other folk clubs/festivals. If I only search pages from Australia, I come up first on the list. Jenny |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: freda underhill Date: 09 Jul 05 - 12:18 AM same here jenny! |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: JohnInKansas Date: 09 Jul 05 - 12:30 AM Having a very common name, Google returns several million citations for the others with whom I share it; but so far as I can tell none relating to anything I've done. Google does return about 158 hits for my mudcat name, all at mudcat. We are apparently quite thoroughly indexed now - or somebody's watching me. John |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: CarolC Date: 09 Jul 05 - 12:44 AM Midchuck, is your last name Caddy? There are no hits that relate to the actual me under either my old name or my new name. But there are a lot of very interesting other people who have both of those names. One of my favorites is a "motivational speaker and scuba diver". ;-) |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Sorcha Date: 09 Jul 05 - 12:55 AM My full legal name shows no hits for 'me'. Sorcha shows both mudcat and SCA. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: George Papavgeris Date: 09 Jul 05 - 01:08 AM I google myself about once a week. My website always comes up first, but it is some of the other "hits" that have been interesting. Throguh doing that, and then tracing any links and contacting the relevant people, in the last 3 months I found that: - one of my songs (Bogeyman) was quoted in a thread on a Malaysian website, the subject being "fear"; the "fan" is a 25-year old Malaysian girl who heard my music from internet downloads - another song (Flowers & Guns) was quoted on a German website, the subject being "peace protests" by an Anglo-German student of engineering in Cologne, who heard someone sing my songs in a Devon pub - yet another song was quoted on a Swiss website by a Swiss teacher of English, who uses my songs in the classroom (!) - several of my songs appearing on playlists in New Zealand, Kentucky and Ohio - and the biggest one of all: knowing my surname to be unique (belonging only to our extended family), I found a branch of the family in New York, that nobody knew about. My third cousin Vassilis is a butcher there, and also (oh, shit!) secretary of the Greek-American Society for the right to bear guns... I spoke with him on the phone, but given his interests I doubt that we will vere become close... |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: George Papavgeris Date: 09 Jul 05 - 01:09 AM "...ever..." |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: freda underhill Date: 09 Jul 05 - 01:54 AM i found some interesting stuff too, El G, not of that calibre, but it also included a letter to the editor that I wrote that i never knew got published! |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Genie Date: 09 Jul 05 - 02:16 AM Bee-dubya-ell, IIRC, the textbook was for Developmental Psychology Today -- or was it Diane Papalia and somebody (Olds?). (Maybe DPT was done by those two?) It's been a looong time! But if I google myself again I can tell you for sure. ( Genie |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Alaska Mike Date: 09 Jul 05 - 02:33 AM Mike Campbell is a fairly common name. When I Google myself, I usually have to wade through a dozen pages devoted to the Mike Campbell who is the lead guitarist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Then there's the jazz musician in Canada and the police chief in southern Alabama. I'm there, but you have to narrow the search by adding additional search words like Alaska, Folk, etc. Like George, I find interesting items ocassionally like my songs showing up in radio play lists, music reviews that I hadn't seen before, and the odd quote from one of my lyrics. Egos are fun to stroke. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Genie Date: 09 Jul 05 - 02:48 AM Quote: "JohnInKansas ... ...Google does return about 158 hits for my mudcat name, all at mudcat. We are apparently quite thoroughly indexed now - or somebody's watching me. John" Hmmm. Does that mean we 'catters hafta start watchin' what we say here? |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: JohnInKansas Date: 09 Jul 05 - 03:27 AM Genie - Having carefully checked the first 780 hits for my "real" name, I find that I am completely and totally anonymous. They'll have to wade through at least 15 or 20 "Reverends," a good dozen lawyers, a half dozen or so electronic/computer whiz kids, several architects, one or two "tree huggers" (environmentalists), a handful of rock drummers (two in "Christian music"), two (or more) disbarred teachers (NJ, NY), an axe murderer from 1840 or so, and a serial killer from a couple of years back to even get interested in me. Traditional lore has been that Google indexes more based on links to stuff than on the stuff itself. If that's the case, some of my B.S. must be getting bandied about more than I'd have expected. The 158 hits on my mudcat posts is but a tiny fraction of the brilliant prose I've posted here, so there must be some other factors involved. And SWMBO only got two hits on her 'cat name, and they were both nearly 3 years old. I can affirm that they don't index letters to Kansas Congrespersons or newspapers, possibly because none of them can read them. Maybe if I tacked "humor" onto the search string... John |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: John MacKenzie Date: 09 Jul 05 - 03:31 AM The name Caddy would tie in with the Findhorn Foundation which was started by peter Caddy. It is a 'new age' (sic) commune type place on the Moray Firth in Scotland, a very macrobiotics and eco friendly buildings type place. Giok |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: GUEST Date: 09 Jul 05 - 03:36 AM Don't you find that a very personal question to ask? |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 09 Jul 05 - 03:40 AM Like ToTo in Kansas I find that I am completely and totally anonymous.No school. No parents. No news. No associations.No websites. (And whoever the poor soul... some think I am...seems to have died...with an obit.)
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
How dreary -- to be -- Somebody!
Well said Emily!!!
Sincerely, |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Gurney Date: 09 Jul 05 - 03:47 AM "You've got nothing on me, copper!" Well, actually, they have, but just a couple of folk things from years ago. They have got my son for a mathematics prize, and my wife's brother complete with a picture, a historian. There were 75,000 hits for Gurney, so I didn't bother. Mostly Dan, the racing driver. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: semi-submersible Date: 09 Jul 05 - 04:35 AM That search engine is puzzling. I don't show up at all as a board member of my local ecological society even though its site's been active for almost a year. (We're even in a Google directory now, and 28 of the first 30 in a search for our society's name are about us, but our site still does not have a place!) Meanwhile, top of the results for my name (even beating out my namesake pediatrician in Maryland) is a cheery exhortation my true love and I wrote for the Work Less Party. Maureen |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Jeri Date: 09 Jul 05 - 07:25 AM I find I'm splattered over the web and Usenet like a frog on a rush hour highway. First hit has me in the NEFFA performers index saying "didn't perform in 2005." I've only done one song in the entire history of the festival! (Not that I wouldn't do another one if they asked.) I also found WyoWoman's (where ARE you?) article in Mother Earth News, Apr/May 2003: "Makin' Music". It's a wonderful article, whether you read the names in it or not, and there are oodles of Mudcatters. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Midchuck Date: 09 Jul 05 - 07:58 AM Midchuck, is your last name Caddy? Cady. One "D." Pronounced to rhyme with "lady" and "shady." But for some reason everyone insists on pronouncing it "Caddy," then going on to spell it that way. According to Google, the Findhorn Society guy had my spelling, but he probably had the same problem with people pronouncing it. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 09 Jul 05 - 08:15 AM Genie - I'm quite familiar with both the titles you mentioned. They were both the texts in their field in the 70's. Hope ya made a few bucks in royalties. Of course, back then a study guide only sold for a couple of bucks. Nowadays they sell for $20+. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 09 Jul 05 - 08:43 AM last week I googled a song I wrote in the 80's and found it had been on several albums I didn't know about - one entitled Complete Crap of the 80's, and another was a boxed set of DVDs. 987 results in all. I e-mailed the publisher and said, you're supposed to collecting the royalties on this lot. sent him the google search and told him to get one of his employees looking no reply as yet...... any other songwriters done this, any luck? |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: JedMarum Date: 09 Jul 05 - 08:48 AM ... and remember; we're all unique, just like everybody else. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Rapparee Date: 09 Jul 05 - 08:59 AM Oh, I'm in there. Also my brother Tony, my perhaps cousin Justin (a jock), my perhaps cousin Maureen (a mathematics prof and swimmer), my father and mother, my cousin Jim (retired fire chief), and my cousin Mindy -- among others. Fools' names, like their faces.... |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Alice Date: 09 Jul 05 - 09:31 AM Even before google I would check my name on search engines periodically to see who was using my illustrations with and without permission. It's also a quick way to see who is linking to your site. I used to be the only one with my name on the net back in the 90's, but more are adding on as time goes by. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: katlaughing Date: 09 Jul 05 - 09:33 AM Ah, we Rosicrucians can be so scary... |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 09 Jul 05 - 09:49 AM I've not googled myself - but as I run a folk club, the club is listed on a few sites & directories, & I'm am on 2 folk committees I would have lots of entries. But I've been doing my bit adding folks to the www. I recently run a mini-festival & a few of the 23 artists were not anywhere till I started the publicity!! My next 2 acts are also almost strangers to the web, too - tho JennyO did book one recently. When I was trying to find info about that act, all I found was Jenny's info & a very strange Japanese language blog that copied Jenny's article! When I hit Google's Translation button, the Japanese site was even stranger - it now had a word-by-word translation & made absolutely no sense, and I couldn't find Jenny's article. weird sandra |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Midchuck Date: 09 Jul 05 - 10:02 AM Ah, we Rosicrucians can be so scary... What is it that you do? If I'm a prominent figure in the organization, I probably should know. Sacrifice terrified naked virgins on a huge stone alter, and drink their fresh blood, like all those other groups...? (Always thought that was a terrible waste of naked virgins, but maybe that's what they mean by "sacrifice.") Peter. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: MBSLynne Date: 09 Jul 05 - 10:25 AM Good heavens!! There are 23 results for me!! Love Lynne |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: DMcG Date: 09 Jul 05 - 10:58 AM I do show up a little if Google'd, but am fairly well hidden by the various press releases of my namesake who is CEO of IntelSat, who was previously a board member of 02 in the UK. Another namesake has responsibilities for maintaining aspects of Hadrian's Wall. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 09 Jul 05 - 11:10 AM I was amazed, frankly. Back before Windows (or at least before I used Windows), and back before the Internet became much of anything, I posted frequently on a non-internet forum called Cuisine, and I submitted a recipe for an omelet which uses, as I recall, salsa, bacon, tomatoes, eggs of course, and some herbs. I found that recipe, with my name "David Oesterreich" attached, at sixty locations. I ought to make that again some time; as I recall, it was delicious. I got a bunch of hits in German, but that was somebody else. Looking for myself as David R. Oesterreich, I found myself at some surprising places. For some reason I'm at a porn site, which I've never visited and had never heard of before. With that search I found 1700 hits. And I found some hits for Uncle DaveO, too. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: wysiwyg Date: 09 Jul 05 - 11:23 AM What's REALLY weird is how a few folks hold out a certain reputation in their online persona, while Googling them shows a completely different story. I'm not talking about cases where people have the same name as a well-publicized bank robber-- I mean, where name/address/etc. all match and the facts reveal how false their posting "persona" is. Some folks really SHOULD google themselves-- to see what WE can see! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Firecat Date: 09 Jul 05 - 12:40 PM Apparently I'm a concept artist! Yeah, as in "I have no concept of art"! Mind you that's the shortened version of my name. Posh name, I'm Chief, Public Affairs, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. Cool! Nothing comes up for my full name. Under Firecat, the first relevant posting is page 21 (my profile on a Red Dwarf fan website), after that I gave up at about page 87. there were only 72,600 to look through! I put in Mudcat Firecat and my postings came up! |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: frogprince Date: 09 Jul 05 - 12:52 PM Interestin': Under my real name, the 4th enty is a mention of my participation in a local art project, "Deer in Lapeer". The 20th entry is my web site. The 58th just because I attended and signed in at a recent township meeting. I'm pretty sure that's all, after that just my first and last names on separate people. Got a lot of interesting, sometimes grotesque, stuff under "frogprince", but looked thru a few pages, then "hopped" here and there up to page 62, and honest folks, none o' that stuff is me. Dean |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 09 Jul 05 - 01:19 PM very interesting... Art |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: CarolC Date: 09 Jul 05 - 01:37 PM WYSIWYG, how are you getting so much personal information (address, etc.) about the people you are Googling? |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: wysiwyg Date: 09 Jul 05 - 01:47 PM Oh, I mean people I know, whose addresslocation I know as well, and whose info comes up in the Google, you can tell it's the person you know. No secret tricks. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: CarolC Date: 09 Jul 05 - 02:15 PM I'm not trying to pry, but I'm curious (feel free to not answer)... if you know them personally, didn't you know already that they were different in life than in the Mudcat before you Googled? Please pardon my confusion. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Genie Date: 09 Jul 05 - 05:26 PM "From: JohnInKansas - Genie - Having carefully checked the first 780 hits for my "real" name, I find that ... They'll have to wade through at least 15 or 20 "Reverends," ... an axe murderer from 1840 or so, and a serial killer from a couple of years back to even get interested in me. ... John " Good thing you don't live in Florida, then, John. They'd probably have ya on a felons list and wouldn't let ya vote! "Traditional lore has been that Google indexes more based on links to stuff than on the stuff itself. If that's the case, some of my B.S. must be getting bandied about more than I'd have expected. The 158 hits on my mudcat posts is but a tiny fraction of the brilliant prose I've posted here, so there must be some other factors involved. ... John " That would explain why only one of my friend/co-lyricist Sonja's Mudcat submissions shows up when I google her name. It's her "I'll 'Ave Guinness Free" parody of Richard Farrely's "My Isle Of Innisfree." Guess there are more net users interested in ale and the like than in other subjects Sonja's penned songs about. --- And, Bee-dubya-ell, sad to say, I got paid a flat fee (ca. $1000, IIRC) for doing that study guide -- no royalties. Of course, back then a grand was about 8% of my assistant prof's salary, so I shouldn't complain. --- Guest, as for my initial question being "personal," yeah, I've often thought that an excellent G-rated retort when someone really pisses you off would be, "Oh, go google yourself!" Genie |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: ToneDeafDave Date: 09 Jul 05 - 09:08 PM Last time I googled myself there were only a few references to my name - quite a lot were references to songs I had in the archive here. That was a long time ago - this time when I googled myself (there ought to be a special verb) I gave up looking for myself after 25 pages of David Diamonds. I had no idea it was such a common name. But I did learn "Composer David Diamond died Monday at age 89". In case anyone is confused, "rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated". I also learned that there is another 'tonedeafdave' on the internet. Now THAT is annoying - I bet I can sing flatter than him! |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: momnopp Date: 09 Jul 05 - 09:59 PM I presume that people know that in order to get one's complete name, the best way is to put it in quotes - "Fred Flintstone" instead of Fred Flintstone. But wow, what an interesting exercise! I'm working very hard on 'search engine optimization' and learning all the current tricks to getting the search engines to 'notice' a specific page or site -- but it didn't occur to me to "google" myself before now (BTW - 'to google' is fast becoming an accepted word in the English language.) Here is a list of the genuine things that pertain to me that I'm listed under: -3 different Web sites (which I own and manage) -a meeting I attended in 2003 and some postings on a list that I didn't think was public -some of my music lists on Amazon -another music list I'm on -Folk festival stuff I'm involved with or was involved with -registrar for this year's getaway -various affiliate marketing listings -comment I posted on my son's school newsletter a couple years ago -listed as staff at a school I taught at for awhile -listed as a sponsor for a school fundraiser and then there are lots of people with my name who aren't me but who do interesting things. Kewl and weird and spooky and fascinating... Peace, JudyO/momnopp |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: GUEST,ragdall Date: 09 Jul 05 - 11:26 PM Well, I googled "ragdall" and found a couple of referrences to sites which quote posts on Mudcat that I hadn't posted. I have no idea why my name appears there. All other hits for ragdalls have no connection with me. Googling my "real" name, I was surprised to learn that a magazine subscription is about to expire. Must they post that online? Surely there is some prohibition in a Privacy Act to prevent such things? There are three referrences to web sites, which I own, or to which I contribute. Other than that, I do not exist online. I have tried very hard to keep my online username(s) from being linked to my offline identity, ever since I was burned, many years ago, by posting an email address, my "real name", location and telephone number, in a Church's online guestbook. The email address also traced back to some posts on a web site at which members had been assured that information in posts would be treated as "confidential". The posts contained very personal information. The site owner added metatags to prevent further invasions by search bots, but the damage was done and the lesson was learned. |
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Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 09 Jul 05 - 11:39 PM I'm amazed at what comes up from doing this. What an ego rush. Thanks, I needed that!! Art Thieme |
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