# Google yourself. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 16, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717 "2003-10-16T02:55:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/1 "2003-10-16T02:55:32Z")
Sorry if this has been done before. I decided to google myself after seeing **Oy Vey** ’s post. I found the following which I thought I posted here, but it was on something called "electric-dreams " ("Electric Dreams is an online dream ezine about dreams and dreaming. Community online since 1994. ") > [@](#): > > My name it’s Peter Lobley. If it is relevant I am from Britain, I > watched the events as they happened on TV (most people were at work here > so heard it on the radio or not at all until afterwards) It was > particularly surreal and emotional to see the second tower fall because > that happened exactly as the camera was on it. I was also quite shocked > to see the apparent civilians cheering ecstatically in some Middle east > country. I have been shocked by the tv-news twice in my whole life. Both > in the past few weeks. The first was when I saw people in > Northern-Ireland throwing stones and blast bombs at children going to > school. The second was the terrorist attacks on America . Both have shown > me what hate and ignorance can do. Both have made me want to do something > and be involved somehow. Google yourelf. See what turns up. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/2 "2003-10-16T03:02:13Z")
I googled myself for the same reason. I am there, as myself, twice. Once on [photo.net](http://photo.net) for some EOS gear I needed hel p with, and once for a cite (Yay!) of a paper I wrote. ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/3 "2003-10-16T03:04:35Z")
I google myself once a year or so. Nothing ever shows up. 🙂 1. My first name is fairly common for girls around my age. 2. My last name is RARE. 3. I take great care never to give out my entire first and last name on the web unless I have to (and that means it has to be for something official.) ~J ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/4 "2003-10-16T03:07:25Z")
I’ve searched using Google for my name before. Unfortunately some guy at McMaster has the same name as me, it’s an uncommon Asian name too. It did throw up some my Uni’s pages and an old management paper I did for innovation in the videogame console industry. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/5 "2003-10-16T03:11:48Z")
I’m a volleyball player, a newscaster, a senior in high school in Oklahoma, I died in April 1842, I starred in a Christian B-movie, I write about arrowheads, my husband’s name is Henry, I’m a law student at Oxford, I coordinate mental health projects, I’m a geography grad student, I was a geriatric care nurse in 1966, I was born in February 1662, and I am a nude celebrity and have photos online. That’s just in the first fifty entries. Yes, I have a slightly common name. As myself, I don’t know if I appear at all – I’d have to add too many qualifiers to see. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/6 "2003-10-16T03:35:45Z")
My first name is common, my second name is not that common - put together, uncommon. All I came up with was some class registers from my secondary school. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/7 "2003-10-16T03:42:47Z")
Googled my full name, as in De V. Ena… 17 times, all actually me. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/8 "2003-10-16T03:43:11Z")
My first name is Summer, which complicates things as far as searches go. The first page is from a program I took part in during high school, the second is actually one of my cousins. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/9 "2003-10-16T04:04:21Z")
Well let’s see here. I’m the president of [researchstock.com](http://researchstock.com) I founded the Highway Safety Foundation in 1954 (before I was born, I might add…) and was responsible for the spate of gory bloody highway safety films shown to young drivers for many years including such classics as Mechanized Death, Highways of Agony and Wheels of Tragedy. I am a photographer specialising in: Corporate, News, People and Travel, based in London. I am a fourth-year undergraduate at St. Mary’s College in the University of St. Andrews. I own Rich-Way Farm on Dutch Valley Road in the Town of Edmeston. I am a chiropractor in South Africa. I own a gardening and landscaping company in Kenmore, Washington. I am secretary of the Minnesota Bar Association. Plus there are quite a few REAL entries from my days as a radio DJ and sales engineer of two-way radio systems, plus of course Kathy’s and my homepage. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/10 "2003-10-16T04:30:35Z")
When I google my real name, it comes back with a lot of gay erotica. Like, A LOT. I’m not happy about this. ---
**Author:** ![teleute12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@teleute12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teleute12)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/11 "2003-10-16T05:00:13Z")
Tried it several times, nothing ever comes up. Figures, since the only people with my last name are directly related to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/12 "2003-10-16T05:50:12Z")
I get: A bunch of geneology sites listing people who lived in Ireland in the 19th century A student from Georgia The Gaelic Football and Hurling Association of Australasia (why yes, my last name’s Irish) Synchronized swimming results from Kitchener, Ontario An Australian guitar teacher A real estate agent in California Results from the UBC Legacy Games, so I apparently have a namesake in my own city None of which is me. Of course, that’s using quotes around my name, as both my first and last names are common enough that I get too many results to go through otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/13 "2003-10-16T05:51:12Z")
I googled for “OpalCat” and came up with “about 15,100” hits. Glancing through it seems that 99.9% of them are me or references to me. Among the more interesting: - a guestbook entry I made in 1996 which already made reference to my site (OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters, even back then) and said “…My site is pretty big…” - an article in USA Today that references my site. - a few things in the [changelog at LiveJournal](http://www.livejournal.com/community/changelog/672548.html) ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/14 "2003-10-16T05:54:57Z")
I did this about 6 months ago. I got articles about a bishop in Maryland (IIRC) and a DJ from New York, I emailed the DJ back and forth a couple times. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/15 "2003-10-16T07:09:39Z")
Well, evidently, **YosemiteBabe** was kind/sweet/generous enough to give a crap about why the heck I took a year off from the SDMB. I give you my official **G** oogle [search](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=zenster). Thanks to this thread, I’ve found out there were great responses to my [The Antipodal Side of Nevil Shute](http://pub31.ezboard.com/fgdopefrm1.showMessage?topicID=484.topic) over in [G’Dope](http://pub31.ezboard.com/bgdope). We’ll overlook the usual flack by a certain Infantile Mason Bottle sort of SDMB detractor who’s also shown up to pee in the punch. If I’m to be condemned with **gobear** , I’m proud of it. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/16 "2003-10-16T09:14:49Z")
Apparently, I was predestined to be a doctor, because some 90% of people on the web with my name are frigging doctors. Hmmmm…the pay would definitely be a step up from my current financial status, but too much physics and aerospace dynamics for my brain to handle. I’m the more creative screaming into the night kinda guy that the scientifically minded type. Still, it’d be nice to be an accomplished writter in something. ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/17 "2003-10-16T09:36:08Z")
88 hits for me. Most of them are me so it’s not very interesting. The 2 that weren’t me was a kindergarden student who wants barbie for Christmas and a lady who was filing bankrupcy. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/18 "2003-10-16T09:40:53Z")
My tinfoil hat still isn’t stopping those mind rays affecting my genitals. But another alter-ego is helping out people with HIV, so I’m not totally insane. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/19 "2003-10-16T10:06:15Z")
Turns out I’m a guitar player for a Manchester band called James. Probably more interesting than the real me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/20 "2003-10-16T10:22:13Z")
No hits for “grimpixie” - there used to be, IIRC Real Me gets three mentions - work website, church website, and a letter that I wrote to a newspaper that some website thought was worth posting… Grim [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717.md?page=2)