I was rather pleased to learn that GOOGLE cannot find me-It doesn’t know where i live, it has no clue about where i work, and it cannot link me to anybody I know. this is wonderful! My question; I assume this is because i am ver circumspect-there are no telelphone numbers in my name, the house is in my wife’s name, and i do not have a police record. i always communicate with banks, insurance companies via mail-i never posy personal stuff on the web.
So, how long can i expect to remain hidden?
Just until the feds finally locate your little shack in the woods and find your manifesto hidden under a pile of ammunition and bomb makings.
If you ever do decide to post a webpage, just don’t put a bunch of porno related terms in the KEYWORDS section of the header block. 
I have the opposite problem, Google knows just about all there is to know about me. The fact that it is posted on my website prolly doesn’t help. Search for my real name and the first four or five hits are me. The funny thing is that the two guys with my exact same name that come up after me are a published author and a well repected (evidently) scholar. When these guys google for themselves they must be thinking, WTF, who is this putz that keeps getting top billing?
Damn. Google found me! If I type my name in (with middle initial) in brackets I get 838 hits. A quick scan shows that they all really are me.
Amazing stuff – articles I wrote as an undergraduate are in there. Internet writings. Professional memberships (especially where I was an officer).
You can probably stay off Google’s radar if you don’t do anything. But in the future I suspect your name will show up if you won the hot-dog-eating contest as a kid, or if somebody close dies.
Not only that, but if I Google “CalMeacham” I get a slew of references. There are a lot of “CalMeachams” out there, but two on the first page are me, citing “Teemings” articles.
On the third page, there’s a cite of me from the Columbus Dispatch (citing one of my Teemings articles!!! I’m aghast:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:m-87q_O4LlUJ:www.dispatch.com/bicentennial-story.php%3Fsto+CalMeacham&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=21
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Google doesn’t know me either, sweet!
It knows me from my old job and a non-profit I used to be involved with. IOW, the old me.
Google doesn’t know me either - although it helps that I’ve changed my surname! Even a search on my maiden name only brought up 2 links to a guestbook signed 6 years ago.
Mrs Geek is ticked off by the fact that my name gets many hundred results on google (which are all actually related to me, or most of them anyway), while hers gets absolutely none. Most of the hits on my name relate to technical articles I’ve placed on the web.
After searching, she asked me “are you a geek celebrity or what?”
How about Zabasearch? Do they have the goods on you?
Heh. A Google search for UncleBeer used to turn up my company website as the first hit - doesn’t do so anymore. I have no idea how it put those two things together. Using my actual real name with the middle initial, or full middle name, returns no results at all. Leaving out the middle initial/name returns a mere 8 hits - none of 'em me.
That was fun. I found a link to a workers comp decision from my former employer. A file note that I wrote was entered as evidence.
Also found an NPR link, reading part of an e-mail I wrote a few years back.
The first hit that came up was my page at Amazon. Not much else, except that someone with my name is a micro-biologist, and another is a musician.
Noooooo!
My name (including middle initial) turns up exactly 1 result. There is someone else with my exact name, living in Sterling Heights, MI, and apparently is an Inventor who has 2 patents.
I bite my thumb at thee.
Searching my name brings up someone(s) far more famous than me: Anastasia/Anna Anderson.
No, that’s not me. Unless I’m a zombie. I might be. Do zombies know they’re zombies?
Oh, the microwave just dinged; my brain pie is ready.
Googling my first and last name in quotes brings up exactly one hit, which is not only me but brings up plenty of information to use against me. Googling without quotes brings up a newspaper article detailing every ninth-grader who made honor roll one year, including me. Well, that could be a lot worse, I guess.
I’ve never heard of anyone locally with my full name. Back in India, there’s tons. So apparently, they’ve all come here but not to NY. When I google my name, I find tons (36,200 to be exact) of girls with my name. None are me!
When I use the shortened version of my name, I get an Indian author who wrote some books, and then tons of other versions.
Probably because I almost never use my real name on the web, not even when being “published”. I never publish anything important enough!
Google thinks I’m a former big shot in the world of scientology, unless I use my middle initial, in which case I’m a tobacconist or realtor (although that realtor happens to live in my city, and I’ve never heard of him. :eek: ). I can find stuff about me if I give more info (like hometown). Does that mean that google can find me or not?
You guys, I just tricked my SO! This is the same guy who tried to tell me that mahi mahi was dolphin (actually, it’s just called dolphinfish) and nearly made me fall for it. I called him over to the author’s page, and said, “Look, I’m a published author!” And he looked at it, and then looked at me, and said “Really?” Bwahahahaha!
All three entries for “firstname middleinitial lastname” are me, but all they reveal are club memberships of mine.
None of the forty or so “firstname lastname” are me.