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08 Jul 05 - 10:30 PM (#1518593) Subject: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Genie 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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08 Jul 05 - 10:32 PM (#1518596) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Clinton Hammond Surprised me? None... mine is still the first website hit you get when you google my name... :-) |
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08 Jul 05 - 10:41 PM (#1518601) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Genie 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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08 Jul 05 - 11:06 PM (#1518612) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: thespionage 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 Oddly enough, I tried to figure out who posted my unpublished lyrics, but, alas, the site had just re-tooled and the post is now gone forever.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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08 Jul 05 - 11:19 PM (#1518627) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: katlaughing 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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08 Jul 05 - 11:38 PM (#1518644) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Bee-dubya-ell 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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08 Jul 05 - 11:46 PM (#1518648) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Midchuck 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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08 Jul 05 - 11:52 PM (#1518653) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: harpgirl 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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08 Jul 05 - 11:55 PM (#1518657) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: JennyO 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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09 Jul 05 - 12:18 AM (#1518667) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: freda underhill same here jenny! |
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09 Jul 05 - 12:30 AM (#1518672) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: JohnInKansas 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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09 Jul 05 - 12:44 AM (#1518677) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: CarolC 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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09 Jul 05 - 12:55 AM (#1518683) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Sorcha My full legal name shows no hits for 'me'. Sorcha shows both mudcat and SCA. |
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09 Jul 05 - 01:08 AM (#1518692) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: George Papavgeris 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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09 Jul 05 - 01:09 AM (#1518694) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: George Papavgeris "...ever..." |
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09 Jul 05 - 01:54 AM (#1518698) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: freda underhill 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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09 Jul 05 - 02:16 AM (#1518700) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Genie 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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09 Jul 05 - 02:33 AM (#1518712) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Alaska Mike 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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09 Jul 05 - 02:48 AM (#1518717) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Genie 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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09 Jul 05 - 03:27 AM (#1518734) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: JohnInKansas 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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09 Jul 05 - 03:31 AM (#1518736) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: John MacKenzie 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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09 Jul 05 - 03:36 AM (#1518741) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: GUEST Don't you find that a very personal question to ask? |
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09 Jul 05 - 03:40 AM (#1518742) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: GUEST,.gargoyle 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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09 Jul 05 - 03:47 AM (#1518748) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Gurney "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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09 Jul 05 - 04:35 AM (#1518773) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: semi-submersible 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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09 Jul 05 - 07:25 AM (#1518825) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Jeri 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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09 Jul 05 - 07:58 AM (#1518835) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Midchuck 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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09 Jul 05 - 08:15 AM (#1518838) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Bee-dubya-ell 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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09 Jul 05 - 08:43 AM (#1518853) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Big Al Whittle 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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09 Jul 05 - 08:48 AM (#1518854) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: JedMarum ... and remember; we're all unique, just like everybody else. |
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09 Jul 05 - 08:59 AM (#1518858) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Rapparee 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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09 Jul 05 - 09:31 AM (#1518873) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Alice 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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09 Jul 05 - 09:33 AM (#1518874) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: katlaughing Ah, we Rosicrucians can be so scary... |
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09 Jul 05 - 09:49 AM (#1518884) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Sandra in Sydney 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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09 Jul 05 - 10:02 AM (#1518900) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Midchuck 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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09 Jul 05 - 10:25 AM (#1518908) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: MBSLynne Good heavens!! There are 23 results for me!! Love Lynne |
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09 Jul 05 - 10:58 AM (#1518920) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: DMcG 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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09 Jul 05 - 11:10 AM (#1518925) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Uncle_DaveO 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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09 Jul 05 - 11:23 AM (#1518930) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: wysiwyg 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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09 Jul 05 - 12:40 PM (#1518976) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Firecat 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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09 Jul 05 - 12:52 PM (#1518988) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: frogprince 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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09 Jul 05 - 01:19 PM (#1519004) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: GUEST,Art Thieme very interesting... Art |
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09 Jul 05 - 01:37 PM (#1519018) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: CarolC WYSIWYG, how are you getting so much personal information (address, etc.) about the people you are Googling? |
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09 Jul 05 - 01:47 PM (#1519022) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: wysiwyg 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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09 Jul 05 - 02:15 PM (#1519045) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: CarolC 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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09 Jul 05 - 05:26 PM (#1519152) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Genie "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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09 Jul 05 - 09:08 PM (#1519235) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: ToneDeafDave 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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09 Jul 05 - 09:59 PM (#1519257) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: momnopp 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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09 Jul 05 - 11:26 PM (#1519288) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: GUEST,ragdall 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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09 Jul 05 - 11:39 PM (#1519294) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: GUEST,Art Thieme I'm amazed at what comes up from doing this. What an ego rush. Thanks, I needed that!! Art Thieme |
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10 Jul 05 - 12:06 AM (#1519303) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Ragdall Regarding your previous post
The cookie-cluster of the MC has been exceadingly vulnerabatium since its conseptiorum
Since exposing (many many years ago "the hole") ... perhaps, other youthful sprites (with too little on their summer hands (aka small dicks)) have begun to explore and perhaps, exploit the obvious GUEST/name process.
Joe (wisely) deleated the thread....and (VERY WISELY) encouraged me to NOT exploit the system....
However, SummerTime - and exploiting is easy.
Sincerely,
Joe, Max, Dic, they will "squeeze" you...but don't give in. |
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10 Jul 05 - 06:00 PM (#1519522) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Peter Kasin I found several others with the same name, which is not a common name. My other namesakes are a high school wrestler, an eagle scout, a carnival concessionaire, and a businessman/committee chair. One entry say's "The highlight of the evening will be committee chair (name) being guillotined!" Chanteyranger |
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10 Jul 05 - 07:12 PM (#1519585) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Don Firth Yeah, just to check on what I've been up to lately, I try it every now and then. I seem be the president and CEO of some company, and I also have a woodworking shop somewhere in the wilds of Ontario. Several hits lead me to various postings on Mudcat, one hit indicating that I was a regular singer at a coffee house in Seattle that I dropped in on from time to time but never actually sang at, and nothing on the coffee houses in the area that I did sing at. And there's an article for Victory Review magazine by Mudcatter Stewart in which he mentions my name. Go to google "Advanced Search," put "folk" in the top box and "Don Firth" in the second box and it tightens it a lot. Put in "folklife" instead of "folk," and the top listing is "Folklife 2003," where Sally Tomson posted some photos she took with her new digital camera of the Coffee House Reunion ("Geezer's Concert") at the 2003 Northwest Folklife Festival. Sally didn't get the camera adjusted too well (still figuring out how to run the thing) and the lighting seems a bit iffy (bright enough in the venue, however), but she got shots of Bob (Deckman) Nelson who led off the concert, then me, then miscellaneous shots of the rest of the crew, including the "grand finale." Ye gods! You can never tell what might be out there that can come back and haunt you!! Don Firth |
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10 Jul 05 - 07:43 PM (#1519594) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: jaze I've done this a couple of times. Apparently, I share a name with a well known young British actor. Hundreds of sites come up--all related to him. Most startling, though, are ones like ***** ***** NAKED! Or See ***** ***** NUDE! Anyone googling me might think I'm a porn star or something:>). |
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10 Jul 05 - 09:29 PM (#1519648) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Joybell There's another Joy Hildebrand. Surprised me a bit. Thought it was an unusual name. Quite a few hits that are really me. A lot of them Mudcat ones. Fun isn't it? Cheers, Joy |
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10 Jul 05 - 09:58 PM (#1519668) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: MaineDog Yes, I tried that recently. There are actually a lot of mainedogs out there who are not me, I have to be spelled correctly. My "true name", I am happy to say, only turns up on page 6 or so, and is nicely hidden where only friends will recognize it. MD |
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11 Jul 05 - 03:25 AM (#1519800) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Stephen L. Rich I never Google myself. I'm ticklish in that spot. Stephen Lee |
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11 Jul 05 - 04:21 AM (#1519823) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Liz the Squeak Under my proper name, I'm the wife of a 19th century vicar who was born in Britain in 1810 and went to Australia to build churches, or a domestic servant in the parish of Headley. They had their portraits painted and it's these that are on the web. For Liz the Squeak on Google, you get this site.... and a lot of links to parts of novels of a less than salubrious nature..... "Liz heard a squeak and turned around to see what had stopped Max in his tracks. Michael was pulling his pants together, and Maria was pulling down her dress ..."....! Didn't know I'd had so much fun! LTS |
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11 Jul 05 - 05:28 AM (#1519836) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Wilfried Schaum Leading the list with my Latin homepage, worldwide and in Germany. - Worldwide: 406 hits, a lot of Mudcat contributions, helpdesk of our statwide library system, guestbooks, recensions, participations, references to some of my articles, discussions. - Germany: 76 hits. Some of the contributions were long forgotten, nice to remember again. Both numbers a little bit inflated by a bus transport enterprise (about 20 hits) owned by a person of same name; learned something new. |
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11 Jul 05 - 09:18 AM (#1519852) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Flash Company Just tried this, under Flash Company I appear to be taking over all kinds of things, so then I tried my real name (Brian Quinn). I never realised there were so many of me. For the record, I am not from Belfast, Ballynahinch or Dungannon, I have never been a Footballer or a Joiner,(although I did have ambitions in that direction). Just a plain old Cheshire lad, me, with Welsh & Irish ancestry. FC |
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11 Jul 05 - 09:46 AM (#1519882) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Donuel 3,870 google hits on my name. however I am insulted that the first several pages are only 10 year old/bad picures I did and multiple 12 year old reports of a ufo sighting I reported. |
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11 Jul 05 - 09:56 AM (#1519887) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Donuel All my poems that google lists are on websites in which I am banned and can not view or edit. opps 3,870 hits on the last name. Most of which belong to my surfer cousin Jeff. |
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11 Jul 05 - 10:16 AM (#1519912) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Liz the Squeak I know who I am, and who Max is... Michael could be one of at least 4 - so who is Maria?? And what is she doing with Michael - whichever one!!! LTS |
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11 Jul 05 - 10:19 AM (#1519916) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Liz the Squeak 705,000 hits on my proper name.... 25,100 on Liz the Squeak.... makes me feel really popular! LTS |
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11 Jul 05 - 10:25 AM (#1519924) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: greg stephens I liked to believe what a unique person I was, till I tried this process. Apparently the world is full of people called Greg Stephens. Some of them very learned Americans with jobs in universities. In fact, most of them are learned Americans. Though one guy plays jazz trombone. |
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11 Jul 05 - 11:01 AM (#1519965) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: GUEST,Joe_F There are even a couple of other Joe Finemans, but I seem to be the main one. I have infested the newsgroups for about 18 years now, mostly alt.usage.english, soc.motss (for a while), and rec.music.folk (before the Mudcat sucked the juice out of it), so if you take the Groups option you will see more than enough of me. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Of the components of love, jealousy has the longest decay time. :|| |
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11 Jul 05 - 11:19 AM (#1519980) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Bill D rec.music.folk HAD juice in it? *grin*.....I thought it was 87% a bulletin board for singer-songwriters |
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11 Jul 05 - 11:37 AM (#1520000) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Burke 162 hits on my name. After Google eliminated similar hits, it only displayed 36. This is not surprising to me, because every tune I've led at every Sacred Harp Singing I've been to from 1995-2004 is in the online minute book. Other hits are for me as a contact for various Sacred Harp events, or otherwise mentioned in relation to Sacred Harp; some departmental web pages that mention me; another person with the same name who contributed a chapter on Computer Science to a book entitled "She does math;" and finally someone on the staff of a very large Baptist church in California. I did find a picture of me at a Sacred Harp singing. I think I must have seen it before & mercifully forgotten about it. At the end are several that Google has labled "Supplemental Result." A couple seem to be related to Usenet messages back in the days before I put my initials in my e-mail name and no-one had heard of Spam. The last one is really strange so I post it here. I can tell it's a index of another site, but a map site indexing a Divorce site? http://www.thestarlite.com/en/r/68636-NewYorkStateMap.html New York Divorce Source: divorce, family law, custody, alimony ... Copyright: Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation- Parks Courtesy of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Memorial. The Memorial is located onGrant Avenue at milepost 4.8 of the park tour road. The 43 foot This 43 foot tall granite memorial was dedicated on Oct 17, 1917, on the occasion of the National Regional > North America > > Travel and Tourism > Parks Drought. The Disaster Center. s of , Library of Congress and Local Government, Yahoo Government. Climate data PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Legend Bacon Hall 36 June 2002 1300 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, 14222-1095(716) 878 How to get to Buffalo by car: • Parking is allowed only in One of the original 13 s to join the Union (it entered in 1788), isknown as the "Empire ." The includes everything from skyscrapers Funding for First Responders This interactive -by- shows the Read More>.The Environment -by-: The Bush Environmental : A NY Military Forts by Time Period . 1615 - 1760 Colonial Period and French& Indian War. Back to Forts Main Page. Skip Bottom Navigation. curmudgedly rants and ripostes BradHeintz.com: A disillusioned 31-year-old softwareengineer and his wife have moved to to pursue careers in the arts. Convention. or MY NAME MY PHONE NUMBER This singing moves; in2003 the location is not what is presented on this -- for directions and NY Directory Site - Learn About 3. Premium Separation/Settlement AgreementService: Our will enable you to obtain a specific comprehensive www.divorcesource.com/NY/index.shtml |
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11 Jul 05 - 01:36 PM (#1520078) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Little Hawk Yeah? Google this: Chongo Chimp |
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11 Jul 05 - 02:33 PM (#1520139) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: wildlone I have just tried my name and I was no 1 and 2 for posting to a living history site. I have quite a rare sirname but a village in Staffs,UK and a town in BC have the same name. dave |
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11 Jul 05 - 02:45 PM (#1520145) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Firecat I'm also a motorbike! Forgot to mention that. And a lot of Cat Stevens lyrics kept coming up. |
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11 Jul 05 - 02:49 PM (#1520149) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: PoppaGator Can I even discuss this without mentioning my real name? I think so... My name is not especially common, but there are a couple of people with the same name as mine who have lots of mentions on the internet. The most interesting case is a fellow just a year or two younger than myself who was killed while working the door at a Socialist Workers' Party fund-raising event in Brooklyn back in the early 1970s. (I might have the organization's name wrong, but it was some such Trotskyite New-Left faction.) The group regards this fellow as a martyr to their cause (even though, as I interpret the story, he was really just the victim of random violence), and still holds events in memory of his (and my) name. Now, I was involved in the draft resistance back in the late 60s, although far more Christian than Communist in orientation, and definitely not affiliated with that particular group. (That is, I was a fairly visible member of the "New Left," but not nearly that far left.) I suppose that, to some of my more distant acquaintances, it very well could have been me collecting admissions at that dance that evening. So now I know why, over the years, a few folks have expressed surprise that I was still alive ~ they probably read a newspaper piece about my namesake's murder and figured it had been me! Another prominent person with the same name as mine is a Catholic priest who is highly placed in the hierarchy of the Maryknoll order. He ain't me, either. And finally, one more person with my name who I found via Google turned out to be a semi-distant relative with whom I started up an interesting correspondance. I met his father (my father's cousin) more than 40 years ago, and may have also met this fellow when he was a very young child. I've only found a single reference to my own actual self: A short couple of paragraphs I once posted to a site requesting info on St. Patrick's Day Parades around the world. I gave 'em my report on our celebrations here in New Orleans, and they gave me a byline. (If I were using my real name here at Mudcat, I'm sure all kinds of crap would turn up. One more good reason for using a fake Mudcat name.) |
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11 Jul 05 - 04:42 PM (#1520230) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: bfdk Entertaining assignment. Well, it turns out I share my Mudcat handle with a few others, including
Googling for my own name I get 700 hits, most of them related to the homepage I run, which offers a few ressources for genealogy research in Denmark. Other hits relate to photos posted to a couple of photo sites (some of which would have been x-rated, had the subjects had only two legs each and no wings), an online database with photos of Danish churches (also genealogy related) and photos of spiders submitted to a nature research database for a "spider hunt" conducted last year in order to ascertain how many of various species could be found in which parts of the country ;-)) The top scorer of the family, however, is my dog. His (unique) name generates a grand total of 6.160 hits. Sic transit gloria mundi! I find myself beaten by a dog ;o)). Well, maybe it's to do with the fact that he's got his very own domain name, and I'm just his lowly tenant.. |
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11 Jul 05 - 04:55 PM (#1520238) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Donuel OK stop it Rapaire, when I said my cousin Jeff the surfer, he is related to my step father so we are not blood related. Gene Hackman on the other hand is my great aunt's son, so he is a cousin with some sort of number after it. |
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11 Jul 05 - 08:14 PM (#1520409) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: Blowzabella I've only got 46 hits but they are all me! Mostly relating to press releases I've done, or references for performers. |
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11 Jul 05 - 10:54 PM (#1520474) Subject: RE: Have you googled yourself lately? From: JohnInKansas Gee - I get 5,690 hits for "Blowzabella." You must have the "safe search" filter turned on... Or did you mean your "real name?" John |