# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/41 "2003-10-16T22:51:52Z")
There three times as myself (two links to a piece I wrote for my university’s newsletter & one to an article in the student newspaper; I was quoted), once as a woman from Sacramento who married a Joseph Torres on January 4th of this year. ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/42 "2003-10-16T23:03:49Z")
Google brings up an article I wrote, a book I co-wrote and a presentation I did at a conference recently. Then there are geneaology results and lots of sports results for someone who has my surname and my middle name. ::snorts:: makes it look I actually have a life or something. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/43 "2003-10-16T23:34:13Z")
Wow, I have a son I didn’t know about who has been elected for some college senator program representing arts and science. (I’m so proud!) In 2000 I was the president of a new lake association and worked with the DNR. I seem to be a pretty popular volleyball player. (funny I did play in high school) I work at a planetarium somewhere. (not too much info there, but cool, something I’ve always been interested in!) Okay, this one is scary! It’s a group of high school students in FFA and the girl does resemble me! And, she is in Iowa! Found a whole family tree that has alot of the same names as my family but none of them are us. Also in Iowa. The Iowa stuff in a way suprises me since the last name was rare around here until about five years ago. I also found lots of stuff in german which doesn’t suprise me since that is where the surname came from. Although I was suprised to find it in it’s changed form instead of the original which I am told is a town there. Married name comes up with nothing. The thing that bothered me the most about the whole deal is that google tried to correct my name! I have been dealing with people trying to correct my name for as long as I can remember. They always want to drop the e from the end. I dunno, it just kind of irked me to see “Did you mean Kristin?” If I would have meant Kristin I would have typed Kristin! ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/44 "2003-10-17T00:08:11Z")
I have two different names, both entirely unique.[ul] [li]I find articles I’ve written on aquarium maintenance[/li][li]references to my knitting teaching and the hats I used to design[/li][li]music reviews I’ve written[/li][li]press releases about my new job[/li][li]contact number still up from my last job[/li][li]a copy of an old resume[/li][li]a quote in a newspaper article when the mall I was in was under siege from a hostage taker[/li][li]an acknowledgment on a friend’s website[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/45 "2003-10-17T00:37:17Z")
I’m an optometrist, a NAvy SEAL who’s MIA, a VP of Asset Management, the designer of something called an LX4, an arborist who recently won a lifetime achievement award from the International Society of Arborculture, a reviewer of surge supressors and toner cartridges at [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), and a 10K runner. Uh, yeah, right. Looks like I’ve been successful at staying incognito. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TygerDralion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@TygerDralion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TygerDralion)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/46 "2003-10-17T00:44:32Z")
I don’t know what’s worse, that there are twelve links to “me” or that all twelve really are me! Most of them are in reference to my ferretry, so it’s understandable. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/47 "2003-10-17T01:11:54Z")
I’ve done this before, but what the heck. Since my name’s fairly common, here are my results. [Without quotes.](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Leslie+Ng) [With quotes.](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Leslie+Ng%22) F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/48 "2003-10-17T01:26:49Z")
Oh, and I should mention that I **own** the Google search results for [Flamsterette](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Flamsterette) and [Flamsterette\_X](http://www.google.com/search?q=Flamsterette_X&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1). 😃 (looking through certain of these results, I’m not so sure that’s so good… eh well) F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Finnie\_the\_Pooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@Finnie\_the\_Pooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finnie_the_Pooh)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/49 "2003-10-17T01:31:08Z")
I seem to have an opera written about me! By the great Rimsky-Korsakov hisself, no less. ---
**Author:** ![cajela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cajela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cajela)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/50 "2003-10-17T01:39:46Z")
Apparently my wedding photos are up. Who knew? Not me. ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/51 "2003-10-17T01:45:03Z")
I’m about 5 different hockey players, including a pro goalie. Which is kinda funny since that’s what I wanted to be when I was a kid. Of course, my name is so common I had to put in my hometown, too and go in 3 pages to find something that was actually me. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717/52 "2003-10-17T04:35:44Z")
I show up on various briefs and court appearences, as well as participation in the CBA and speaking engagements, all of which I’m familiar with. But I also: - am a player with the Peebleshire Spartans Football Club in Scotland, and last spring helped to defeat the Peebleshire Rovers; - am on a list of typical family names in Ayrshire, Scotland; - was christened on the Isle of Okney, Scotland, on December 5, 1828; - play with the Niagra Brass Band (I’m not sure what instrument); and, - back in 1968 was the Galashiels Braw Lad at school in Galashiels, Scotland, and just the other day attended a reunion with me mates at Kingsknowes Hotel, Galashiels. (Yes, both my first name and my family name are very Scottish - why do you ask?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself/207717.md?page=2)