Google Yourself: How Many You's Are There?

I am:

City Treasurer for the City of Palos Hills :confused:
Some guy on a family tree site
A fat, bald guy in prison (he wants you to write him a letter)
An author of books on masonry
A company who makes various items for the military/police

Even though I know there are at least five more people in the world with my name, I’m apparently the only one who has managed to get on Google.

My screenname turns up a bunch of hits, many of which have to do with me. Some of the rest are found in those collections of words that porn sites use to get hits. Apparently “priceguy” is on par with “fucks pierced babe”, “black whores” and “free nude pictures” when it comes to attracting porn surfers.

No, I don’t get it either.

There’s only me and some local politician in England. I go by my initials so if I try my complete name, I think there’s one other person, who I think is dead.

My last name is not terribly common but there are a few more people who share it: a prisoner who is (I think) on death row or has already been executed, a hottie soap star, and a new age composer.

Let’s see… I:

-write X-men slash between Remy and Logan
-am a character in a romance novel
-went to secondary school in Saltash (Wales?)
-graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in 2002 from the University of Tasmania
-am a Triathalon runner
-was born September 26,1927 and was married on May 12, 1956

None of these is really me. The real me did come up once, and that was from when I was first online and I posted to a genealogical website.

scary!

a lot of musicians, somebody from the Peabody Institute ( :confused: ), DJs, a US Congressman…

but I was pleased to see a genuine reference at number 10 on the list!!

Besides a bunch of the actual me (all seemingly education-related), I am:

  • A fairly accomplished and rather pretty actress in musicals
  • A Pickerington Tigers JV cheerleader
  • An expert on spasticity in children with disabilities
  • A 31-year-old from Philadelphia who is a very slow runner.
  • Someone from Baltimore who cannot be bothered to enter a bio.
    Amusingly enough, my friend from high school shares her name with a rather popular dominatrix. :eek:

Until recently, everything that turned up under a vanity search for my name was actually me:

  • the slash writer.
  • the librarian.
  • the person who does book reviews and articles for a literary zine.
  • the person who used to work for a flight safety magazine.

All me.

My mother has the same name, but evidently Mom has no Web presence at all.

However, the last time I did a search, I found that there is a little girl (maybe 9 or 10; she seems to be in 5th grade) who writes poetry and has my name–no relation, though. I hope the child doesn’t do a vanity search herself, since she’d be in for some surprises.

If I google my full name including my second first name, I don’t get any hits.
If I google First Initial Family name, then I get one hit, some tax accountant in Michigan. (Not me)
If I google only my first and family name I get:
[ol]
[li] A psychologist[/li][li] An architect[/li][li] A realtor[/li][li] An Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University[/li]at Buffalo
[li] An LAPD Officer killed in a motorcycle accident[/li][li] The winner of the bakers world championship[/li][li] A firefighter in Germany[/li][li] As it seems I married about two months ago[/li][li] A ski jumper[/li][li] The father of the officer killes in a motorcycle accident[/li][li] A jockey[/li][li] A cross country runner[/li][li] Some bureocrat[/li][li] A dentist[/li][/ol]

I think I could go on for quite some time here. And I am probably not amongst the result as I never got around to design a homepage. How boring

I’ve googled myself recently, since I’m involved in a job search and wanted to see what might come up.
There’s only me. My last name is uncommon enough that I didn’t expect there to be others and I was right.

I do this fairly often. I’m so vain.

The other me’s are:

A school teacher in Minnesota

and (my favorite)

a writer of lesbian vampire fiction. Hee. (She must be my alter ego, I write romances of the non lesbian, non-vampire kind.)

With my name in quotes, there are 4,110 hits. With my first and last name out of quotation marks, there are 1,210,000 hits. :smiley:

I am:

The descendant of a French Count from the 1600’s.

A successful Producer of independant feature films.

An artist whose paintings sell world-wide, living in Australia.

A newspaperman somewhere in New York State. ( This is hilarious to me. My Dad was a newspaperman for 30-odd years, but we don’t share a first name.)

A resident of London, England in the year 1695.

A published novelist.

A German-born published novelist ( aside from the other guy above :wink: )

An extraordinarily buff member of a sculling team.
Heir to a small fortune, denied because the will was burned up. :eek:

The C.E.O. and President of an Internet support company whose mission statement reads as follows:

                                                   Gobblygook, huh? :D

I’m a Public Engineer ( P.E. ).

I am an avant-garde artist specializing in sculpture.

I am a pharmacist in England.

And my personal favorite- I compete in Nordic Skiing at the collegiate level.

Cartooniverse

I am another writer!

She and I have linked our web sites and refer to each other as Evil Twin.

I am:

An astronomer.

And that’s it. Funnily enough, that’s me, the real me, nobody else shares my name. I’m unique. :smiley:

… and if you use your screen name… ?

I am…

a guy they named a city for down Texas way,
a forum administrator,
into virtual railroading, whatever the hell that is,
a French-English translator,
on staff at the University of Canterbury (what the heck’s a Dip Tchg, Cert Tertiary Tchg?)

The real me doesn’t show up until the third page.

My name is fairly uncommon but there are others out there.

According to Google I am:

A programmer (me)
An XSL/T guru (me)
A 9 year old Tasmanian schoolboy with an aptitude for maths (not me)
Designer of various CD and book covers (me)
The English agent for Ski Lehrer Anwarter Profung (SLAP - ski instructor training) (not me)
Senior DUCK rep at Durham University’s SRC (not me)
The most promising Sandy Bay St John’s Ambulance cadet (not me)
Related to Bathroom Mirrors With Lights on SearchSpot.co.uk for some reason (me)
Listed in evidence for the FERC investigation of Enron (me)

Sadly enough I’m a nobody…

Both my name and screenname do not give any matches (unless I’m some Google moron and don’t know how to properly search)

I have an uncommon last name, so I was a little surprised to discover that I’m:

  • a tap dancer/choreographer who also teaches in southern California
  • a member of a local historical society in New Jersey, who is also apparently a member of the Horatio Alger Society
  • a microbiology lab technician
  • the co-owner of a vintage 1915 Mercer Sporting car
  • the grandchild of a woman who passed away in Iowa
  • a former employee of the Mission Viejo Company
  • a graduate of the nursing school at Virginia Commonwealth University

The rest of the hits are for me. If I include my middle name, I only get me (and a helpful suggestion from Google that perhaps I would like to try a different spelling).

I was delightful in the Pittsfield Players Children’s Theatre Workshop’s performance of “Pom Pom Zombies”.

I play soccer at LeMoyne College.

My actual self pops up there a couple of times, for awards at school.

I’ve been asking questions on how to build my own darkroom.

I teach Biology at the University of Connecticut, but I’m also the Anatomy lab coordinator at James Madison University.

I’ve sometimes felt like e-mailing myselves… but I never figure out what I would say, so I’ve never bothered.

I am:
A newspaper reporter (me-there were six for me, including the first two)
Getting married this summer
Someone who has completed a 5K run
A teenager who went on a trip to Yellowstone with a chuch group

My name is rather unusual, but there are a few of me if I search a directory. However, only one has achieved any measure of notoriety, and by huge coincidence, we both grew up in the same small town–Abilene, Texas. He’s a former pro golfer and is currently is fairly well recognized for making custom golf clubs.

My individual first and last names, on the other hand, are very common first names for young women, which is kinda weird for a guy.