It has been a while. Maybe I will now.

I did it last June, when many people were graduating and Googling/ being Googled was happening a lot. (I’m on a few academic sites that let you know when someone’s been searching for you.) I once had a very distinctive last name, which has since been legally changed. Now I disappear into all the Google results, and love it!

Call me old-fashioned, but if someone wants to know about me, they can bloody well get to know me personally, not go on what’s out there about me (which as we all know, may or may not be accurate). ;p

Last week..my name is sooo not unique :(

Yesterday afternoon.

A while ago. Apparently I am a low league German Football player.

More recently than I’d like to admit…

I’ve got a girlfriend now, so I haven’t had to google mysel…...... oh wait I get it now….

I do this every so often. Actually, I pipl.com myself more often than I google/yahoo myself. you’ll be amazed at what you can find out there!

Probably about 6 months ago. Found my Facebook account and a few other accounts I have spread across the internet.

OK, just Google myself again (sorry angel). First thing that comes up is my LinkedIn account, something weird that’s not me, my Facebook account, and more and more accounts with other sites.

Last month, and on images there’s actually a picture of me.

I didn’t google my real name, but last week I googled my fluther screen name, which I also use for comments on another site. You can find out all about me, including my real name, by doing that.

Good thing I am not running for public office.

I do it regularly. I do a lot of freelance work and I’m sure my new clients Google me – why wouldn’t they? So, I want to control my web presence, as they say. At one point a bunch of stupid things would come up – comments I’d left on people’s blogs, etc. But now nothing does, which is how I like it.

@coffeenut I love one of your tags, btw… “may cause blindness”. :D

I found out that my writings had been referenced on many more blogs than I’d realized. It made me happy.

Which self? I googled my real name a while back, and it’s still buried under…. well, let’s just say it’s around page 50 before it shows up.

Google my name here, and I show up on top. And fluther, too. Google my old name, and I have disappeared. I guess they only show recent stuff.

Last time was a couple months ago. I try not to have my name come up anywhere on google. Call it paranoia if ya will but I have a very unique name and I’d rather my personal business not bein out there :P

I googled myself once before starting college and found out from a friend a few weeks afterward that she had googled me as well, before we actually met in class (the school website posts a roster for each class section).
The only thing that pops up for me is an article that was run in the local paper about how I received a perfect attendance award for all four years of high school. (I totally did not deserve it, by the way, and I still think that there was some mistake made). My friend told me that she assumed I would be super serious and such from that article. Argh, it’s kind of embarrassing.

My real name turns up, but it’s never me, just people that share my name. I’m pretty much unfindable on google to the casual searcher of my name.

I never do that, but since you asked…
It seems I am an LA rock n’ roller, and I appeared last weekend at the Viper Room.

Yesterday. I found I have a namesake in another part of the country. I find this odd because our last name is quite unique, springing from an inaccurate transliteration from the Slovenian…

I never have, as I just don’t use Google. See no reason to do this, anyway.

…..dont…use…. google…..how…..why…...

@uberbatman I tried it once and didn’t like it, so I kept with the old standard that has been working just great for over a decade. Why change when what works works so well?

what engine do you use?

@uberbatman I really don’t use them much anymore, but if the need be, Yahoo is the default on the homepage. That seems to serve well. Always had, so see no need to change.

@12Oaks You don’t have much use for search engines? Wow, I can hardly imagine that. What do you use the internet for, if you don’t mind my asking?

@nicobanks
that is a very intimate question, don’t you think?

@ragingloli I don’t understand what you mean.

@nicobanks Not at all. In no particular of frequency or importance, I use it for games, news (especially sports) a little gambling, library stuff, shopping, seeing the happenings at my favorite hot spots (mostly arboretums) and the such. I already either know the URL, or have them on my favorites. I do use site searches, like to find a video on youtube or a book on amazon, of course. But if I need, say, new strings for my mandolin, I don’t type on ‘mandolin strings’ in yahoo or google, I just go to a favorite music store online and make the purchase there. I’d be happy to entertain any more questions on the topic, of course.