Sixth picture is a pic of someone wearing some trousers they named after me.
And later is a pic of me, with “adored by all” underneath it. Result!
Sixth picture is a pic of someone wearing some trousers they named after me.
And later is a pic of me, with “adored by all” underneath it. Result!
I had never thought to try this before.
The very first result is a photo that I sold to a tourism website. After that, my Flickr icon shows up on the fourth page, then nothing.
No pictures of me (not even from Facebook), but there are two photos of a political rally with my name on them which I submitted to a local TV station for use on their website.
Whew. I’m still anonymous. What a relief.
If I use just my first name and married name, I get 50 pages of a certain official in an African government who shares my name. This always makes me laugh. Look, there he is with the Dalai Lama! (That’s the closest I’ll ever get.)
If I use my first, maiden, and last name, or just first+maiden, an old facebook profile is the first to show up, all others are something else.
With both sets of original criteria, there is nothing related to me in the first ten pages of images. This is not surprising, as my name is moderately common among women of my age and background (I’ve met two of me and seen the grave of another–which was creepy because she also shared my middle name and was born within a week of me), and there is apparently a relatively well-known self-help author who shares it.
Searching without the Facebook or Myspace restrictions still gets me nothing of myself in the first twenty pages–although I’m mildly disturbed that I got at least three pictures of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, seeing as no part of my name bears any resemblance to Mary, Kate, Ashley, or Olsen–nor do I bear the slightest physical resemblance. In fact, I probably weigh more than the two of them put together.
Searching my user name gets only four pages of results, about a third of which, while not images of me, are images from pages where I use the name and/or work I’ve posted to craft forums.
AHA! Searching my real name and my general regional affiliation gets my Facebook profile picture as the first result. (And yet, not a single other image in the first ten pages are other Facebook pictures belonging to me or anybody else.) Took long enough–I was beginning to think that maybe I didn’t exist.
I found no pictures of me, I am delighted to say. I gave up after 8 pages when the hits no longer had my first name and my last name on the same hit.
I have a very common first name, and a very common last name. My search produced nothing in the first 20 pages of image hits, and i couldn’t be bothered looking any further.
My wife, on the other hand, has a reasonably uncommon first name, and a very uncommon last name. The first three image hits were pictures of her.
Yeah, the first image on the first page was me, in both searches.
I went twenty pages in and there’s nothing of me.
There is a Hello Kitty guitar pick on page 2, though.
Not a single picture of me.
And the people who share my name are all more attractive than me. Dammit.
I didn’t use restrictions. With Firstname Marriedname I got zero hits. With Firstname Maidenname I got 25 hits, zero having anything to do with me at all. My first name is a common word in another language (but not common as a name), and my last name is very uncommon as well. I wouldn’t be surprised if I was the only one on the planet with my name (either v.1 or v.2)
My Facebook pic comes up on the second page without exclusions, but if I subtract that, I am nothing. Why do you want to take away my only source of fame?
Yeah, I’m the last result on page four if I don’t exclude Facebook, which surprises me. There are a lot of people with my name, and I’m not particularly noteworthy on the web (Facebook included). The most famous versions of me are an extremely doofy-looking Comp Sci professor and an Australian TV news reporter.
If I do exclude Facebook, nada…or at least, nothing for the first umpteen pages, and I’m not looking any further than that. It’s okay, though…I’m mysterious!
None of me at all in 2 pages of images and I didn’t exclude facebook etc.
Evidently I share a first name with an eco-terrorist, however.
If I don’t include any city name, two of the images on the first page relate to me. One is a photo of me and 4 co-workers, another is a diagram from a project I was involved in.
If I do include a city - any city I’ve lived in - I get nothing. I’m not sure I want to know what that says about me.
If you search for just my first name, on the first page are pictures I did for Blockade Boy’s costume redesign contest.
Lots of pictures about a semi-famous guy from the 19th century I’m very distantly related to. Lots of pictures of a branch of the family that lives in the Midwest, none of whom I’ve ever met. Finally, on page ten there’s a picture of a plane crash that my aunt survived before I was born. Her name is mentioned in the text, but she’s not actually pictured.
I didn’t see any pictures of myself, or anything to do with me. I think I had my picture in the tiny local newspaper once around 1986, but thankfully it seems not to have found its way onto the Internet.
Including Facebook, the third hit is my avatar portrait from there. Excluding Facebook, there are six pictures that relate to me on the first page, but apparently none on any of the others, and apparently no pictures of me at all.
My facebook profile picture is the first image on page 1 with just my first & last name searched. Excluding Facebook, I gave up after 40 pages. Nothing.
Excluding facebook, I found nothing in the first 10 pages. Without excluding my facebook profile pic is on page 4. This is pretty much what I expected. I’m not notable, and any pictures I put up for fun are under a handle, not my real name.