Since I have a unique name, there’s almost a page about me; then it breaks down into people who share my first or last name.
“First Middle Last” - no matches.
“First Last” - I gave up after 9 pages and nothing about me.
“First Last” image search - first page.
“First Middle Last” 14 pages
“First Last” 23 pages between relatives (mostly ancestors) and myself
I show up six times on page 1 alone. I’m not going to read through the other 2100 hits. Virtually every Google reference to my username leads right back to the Dope.
Using my first + last names comes up with a lot of entries, but at least on the first 20 pages, none of them are me (unless you count the white pages search on page 6 that searches for everyone by my name in Utah).
Using first+middle+last gives 2 pages of results, including one about my father (I’m a Jr.), on a genealogy site hosted by one of my cousins.
Using first+middle+last+jr gets 1 hit, and it is me, on another genealogy site, but the link doesn’t work.
Using my SDMB username, there are a lot of hits, some of them to my posts here, but most of them are for one or more other people posting on other message boards with the same alias.
First and last: first four pages are all me. My first name is very unusual.
SDMB name: Feh. Gave up after page 50.
Work Blog Alias: First entry.
Whether using my full first name and last name or the shortened version of my first name with my last name, every single hit on Google is either me or my cousin. I’m the first hit for the full name, he’s the first hit for the shortened name. Since our last name is a misspelled version of our original family name (a classic Ellis Island renaming), we are probably the only two people in the world with this name.
The entire 26 pages of results are about me and only me. I’m the only person in the world with my particular name, at least as far as google can tell me.
Googling full name (middle name spelled out): no hits
Googling first, middle init, last: on page 1 a result that is really me, listing a book containing an article I authored
Googling firstname lastname: first five pages of hits are all someone else (including a footballer, a psychologist, and an actor); on the sixth page I’m top of the list.
SDMB UserName: me, me, me, me, me, all over the place
Full legal name with middle name spelled out - one hit, but it’s a list of names, with my first name as the last name of a person, followed by a comma, then a name of another person that is composed of my middle name and last name.
Full legal name with middle initial - 3 pages of non-duplicated hits, first hit that is me is on second page, and is in an online phone directory listing.
Informal first name and last name - Huh. Have done that search many times before and I’ve always been buried under hundreds of hits. This because I’d never really used that version of my name actively online, and turns out there are at least a couple other people online with my informal first name and last name who use it very actively.
But…I decided to give the search another try for this purpose, and was very surprised to find myself the second hit, due to my earlier this year starting to use my personal domain (which is comprised of this version of the name) much more actively than I ever had before.
The first link is my facebook page. A couple of others are about people who share my name but are not me (A vain guy from essex with a myspace page, and a competition fisherman) below the middle is a link to my blog.
full legal name (which is maiden name + married name)–just me. It’s a weird combo.
everyday name (just the married name)–is the same as a guy in a high position in an African government. So it’s pages and pages of him. You have to add my hometown to get me. (Yep, I’m a white CA housewife, he’s an African gov’t minister, we have the same name, and no one else does. :p)
just the maiden name–mostly me.
Two hits, about the same guy “was born on 19 Mar 1959. He died on 13 Oct 1976” A little eerie - dude was born just a few years before me. No posts about me, obviously.
- entry near the bottom of the second page leads to LinkedIn, with a bunch of people with my name. One of them is me.
I get mostly links to an NFL player and an actor who was on one of the Star Trek series (who I’d never heard of until today) who share my name. I got bored after searching through several pages.
ShibbOleth" - doesn’t do much better. Okay, even worse.
“Shibb” actually finds me on the fourth page, linking to a profile on another Message Board.
I’m fairly anonymous on the Interwebs.
Don’t even need the quotes. First name Lastname, over 10,000 hits, first hit is me. Just typing in my lastname, I am the first hit.
I’m an academic with research that has been profiled in the national and international media many times - many of the hits are news and blog stories. Also notices of seminars, conference talks etc…
First name last name: 1st page 3rd entry
First name, middle name, last name: 1st page 1st entry
First initial, middle initial, last name (my usual): 1st page, 1st entry
like Mozchron, above, I am an academic with publications
Using my “usual” name gets almost all about me (except that one guy on Facebook who shares my name who isn’t me).
Using my full name has the aforementioned Facebook guy as the first entry (mostly because my middle name is the first name of someone on this guy’s friends list - a guy who may actually be an old friend from junior high!).
Wow. Just wow!
I knew what would happen if I Googled for the name I go by - where my first name is a nickname - it finds hits for an entertainer of the same name. However, my LinkedIn entry does appear on page 2.
The big surprise is that when I Googled for my formal first name + middle initial + last name I came up with two papers published in recognized scientific journals. I had no clue about this. They were published 3 and 4 years after I left university in 1982 (and 1 and 2 years after I was formally awarded my PhD). My supervisor published them and put my name on them. He never told me. To be fair, I don’t know if he had contact details - my PhD was in Biochemistry and I immediately abandoned the field to become a computer programmer.
One paper was clearly taken from my PhD thesis - and I am the first named, so that is fair. The second seems to have little, if any, connection, and I am named as the second and final “author” after my supervisor.
Waddya know? All those hours in the lab have been memorialized somewhere.
Just searching “firstname lastname” gives 6200 results. I had to go to page 2 before I found any reference to myself, and page 3 before I found any of my SDSAB reports. OTOH, I found my payola report cited in a serious academic work, so I got a nice ego boost there. (This is the one I keep in my professional portfolio, so I will print out this document and put it in there.)
Full name, with middle name spelled out, I don’t appear at all, and there are only about 15 results total.
With my middle name as an initial, more than 11 pages, no references to me in the first 3 pages I looked at.
First and last name only – two references to me, including a picture, on page 1. More than 10 pages total. This answer would have been very different 3 years ago, when I had my 15 minutes of fame.
I got as far as page 7 before I gave up. I figured as much. I share a full name with a fairly famous dead mafioso, and a last name with a very famous (legit) business family, as well as just a very common Italian name.
Joe