# Google image search yourself **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 29, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698 "2009-04-29T03:18:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/1 "2009-04-29T03:18:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/2 "2009-04-29T03:53:05Z")
It appears that there are no pictures of me anywhere on the Internet. And I included Facebook and Myspace. Ed ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/3 "2009-04-29T03:54:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/4 "2009-04-29T03:58:07Z")
I share my name with a Congressman. Not a chance. ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/5 "2009-04-29T04:54:57Z")
First page has pictures of me. But I have a pretty uncommon name. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/6 "2009-04-29T05:50:36Z")
Me with some alumni with whom I had a small meeting with in London, it ran on my schools website…that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/7 "2009-04-29T05:56:35Z")
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](http://knitty.com) contest in 2006 got an honorable mention and I didn’t know it. Apparently I am oblivious to honors received. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/8 "2009-04-29T06:04:31Z")
Pictures of my school, my boss, my everyone except me! Grr. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/9 "2009-04-29T06:06:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/10 "2009-04-29T14:47:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/11 "2009-04-29T15:12:55Z")
No pics of me came up at all. I find it a little disturbing that [this pic](http://www.acbd.monash.org/assets/images/hp006.jpg) was returned as part of the search. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/12 "2009-04-29T15:21:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/13 "2009-04-29T15:24:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/14 "2009-04-29T15:30:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/15 "2009-04-29T15:33:37Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/16 "2009-04-29T15:36:26Z")
I gave up after 20 pages. For each of my brothers, I gave up after 10 pages. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/17 "2009-04-29T15:37:01Z")
Of the 18 images on the first Google Results Page, 17 have some connection to me. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/18 "2009-04-29T15:37:43Z")
Unless I include facebook, absolutely zero. Whew! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/19 "2009-04-29T16:17:39Z")
The very first image is me. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698/20 "2009-04-29T16:26:36Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-image-search-yourself/494698.md?page=2)