Google image search yourself

In My Humble Opinion
1

How many pages of Google image search results does it take to find an image that’s actually related to you in some way?

[list=a]
[li]Search for Firstname Lastname -site:facebook.com -site:myspace.com on Google image search.[/li][li]Search for Firstname Lastname Hometown -site:facebook.com -site:myspace.com.[/li][/list]

I’m excluding Facebook and Myspace because I’ve noticed they really tend to skew the results do to the amount of mutual linking that goes on.

For A, there’s a photo (not of me) that mentions me in the caption as the second image on the second page. There’s a photo of my cats (from my personal site) near the bottom of the third page.

For B, the first three results are related to me:

[ol]
[li]The aforementioned caption[/li][li]An actual photo of me at a bar that was in the paper a couple of weeks ago[/li][li]An image from a page where my photo appears elsewhere[/li][/ol]

Though my name’s relatively uncommon, I’m an easier dude to find than I thought.

2

It appears that there are no pictures of me anywhere on the Internet. And I included Facebook and Myspace.

Ed

3

If I just do “firstname lastname” without your exclusions, the second page has three of my paintings on it. So that’s kind of cool.

A: couple of my paintings on the first page
B: only three results, none related to me.

There are not any photos of me on the first few pages either way.

4

I share my name with a Congressman. Not a chance.

5

First page has pictures of me. But I have a pretty uncommon name.

6

Me with some alumni with whom I had a small meeting with in London, it ran on my schools website…that’s it.

7

Very interesting. When I include my hometown, I discovered that I was in the Seattle Business Journal and didn’t know it (announcing that I had been elected to the board of a local nonprofit). Without my hometown, I discovered that a picture I submitted to a knitty.com contest in 2006 got an honorable mention and I didn’t know it.

Apparently I am oblivious to honors received.

8

Pictures of my school, my boss, my everyone except me!

Grr.

9

Immediately, but my name is quite distinctive, and there’s only one of me currently living, so that’s no surprise.

I also get a lot of pics of my brother, who’s considerably more famous than me.

10

First image was someone who had taken an image from my website without asking, but had at least given me credit. :rolleyes: First three pages are all shots of me or shots I took. I’m the only person with my name in the US and I’m one the web a lot.

11

No pics of me came up at all. I find it a little disturbing that this pic was returned as part of the search.

12

My name is surprisingly (to me) common, but my facebook picture still comes up on the first page, without adding a website to the search. Ironically, if I **do **add “facebook” to the search, the only thing that comes up is a (not especially close) friend’s facebook picture. Go figure.

13

Nothing on the first 5 pages of either search but apparently there is a both a male and female actor that share my name and there are lots of picture of them.

14

Using my real name, I’m the 11th picture of the first 20 in a Google Image search. The other 19 are another guy with same name as me, who is obviously much more famous than me.

Using a six-letter pseudonym that I use on various message boards, etc., all but one of the first 19 are photos taken by me, but not of me. (The one exception is a photo that is next to one of mine in someone’s blog). I really like this pseudonym, because it’s unique to me: it’s not a word in any language, and it’s not used as a pseudonym by anyone else that I’ve found.

15

There’s a few pictures of me, but dozens of pictures of my work (and pictures of Joan Jett…my first name is her last name).

16

I gave up after 20 pages.

For each of my brothers, I gave up after 10 pages.

17

Of the 18 images on the first Google Results Page, 17 have some connection to me.

18

Unless I include facebook, absolutely zero. Whew! :smiley:

19

The very first image is me.

20

The first six Google Images pics on p. 1 are small group photos in which I appear. Two are for a national organization to which I belong; the other four are for a college-reunion panel of which I was a member.