# Gooling your username **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113 "2004-01-26T05:37:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![xayoz306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xayoz306](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xayoz306)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/1 "2004-01-26T05:37:55Z")
I googled my user name, and to my surprise, it wasn’t as unique as I thought it was. Apparently, there are 237 websites that make reference to my user name, and only a couple of them have anything to do with sweet ol’s me. (Mind you, on the internet, only hitting 237 references isn’t very much.) On the other hand, I think my username is a word in a language other than English. How about everyone else? Does anyone have a cool website that **they have no part of** that Google brings up when you search for your username? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/2 "2004-01-26T06:13:23Z")
> [@xayoz306](#): > > else? Does anyone have a cool website that **they have no part of** that Google brings up when you search for your username? I’m going to sue the state of Michigan for [using my likeness](http://www.michigan.gov/lottery/0,1607,7-110-821_838-81232--,00.html) on a lottery ticket without my permission. Right after I [nail Fermilab](http://txpc1.fnal.gov/~kamon/tripler/tripler.htm) for the same thing. Tripler Apparently, I’m pretty luminous for a 5-sigma. ---
**Author:** ![leafrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@leafrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leafrog)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/3 "2004-01-26T06:14:32Z")
Well, a search on my user name comes up with a whole bunch of typo’s of lea **P** frog. It does seem that there is some coach in Dallas who has leafrog@some other domain than [mine.com](http://mine.com) as his email addy… ---
**Author:** ![Nurobath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a88e57/32.png) [@Nurobath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nurobath)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/4 "2004-01-26T06:23:59Z")
I get nothing, nada, zilch. Web, images, newsgroups…all come up with no matches. Not really all that surprising I suppose, my username is a bit odd. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/5 "2004-01-26T06:25:09Z")
Well without quotation marks I get a bunch of sites which happen to include both words… and one somehow related to Neverland Ranch :eek: With quotation marks I get a board where I also use this name, and someone else somewhere also apparently uses this name. ---
**Author:** ![7\_up\_yours](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/919ad9/32.png) [@7\_up\_yours](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7_up_yours)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/6 "2004-01-26T06:27:51Z")
I expected this: the 7Up website, and a lot of other sites that talk about 7Up. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/7 "2004-01-26T06:31:40Z")
Yeeeeeeeaaahh… I have some trouble in this regard… ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/8 "2004-01-26T06:36:08Z")
Of course, since mine is the name of something more important than me, they’re all about that. I’m surprised that hit #8 is actually me. The majority of hits are about the star Achernar, half astronomy, half astrology, a few science fiction. But apparently, Achernar is also… some Japanese musician (?), a US navy attack cargo ship, a Russian record label, a mystery novel, one of Argentina’s biggest self-adhesive label making companies, a chess variant, and the title of an erotic greeting card. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/9 "2004-01-26T06:44:10Z")
I’m just not even going to try. ---
**Author:** ![BrattiAtti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@BrattiAtti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrattiAtti)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/10 "2004-01-26T06:53:37Z")
Zero. Nada. Zip. > [@Moe](#): > > I’m just not even going to try. Of course, Moe, turning up “about 2,010,000” results it would only take you approximately 105 days to check, spending 3 seconds on each listing, going at it 16 hours per day. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/11 "2004-01-26T07:32:24Z")
Mine came back with 11,500 hits, and surprisingly the first one was about me. After that, it’s some technical pages and a whole mess of Star Wars fan sites. ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/12 "2004-01-26T10:46:48Z")
26900 hits. The second hit is for the Singapore restaurant that inspired my choice of this name. The eigth one refers to me on the board where post ten times as much as here. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/13 "2004-01-26T10:52:06Z")
I’m sure if I separated the words, I’d get a lot more, but I only got 4. And the first two were links to messages I’ve posted on this board. ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/14 "2004-01-26T11:40:09Z")
I am… An assistant professor at MIT, The head coach of USC’s women’s water-polo team, A member of the US national soccer team, A 19th century Serbian statesman, And also a sexy perfume. I’m not quite sure what to make of all this… ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/15 "2004-01-26T11:53:19Z")
[absolutely nothing](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=paulberserker&btnG=Google+Search) what, I dont exist on the web or something? what about this site and the other message board i’m on? ---
**Author:** ![so\_da\_ne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@so\_da\_ne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/so_da_ne)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/16 "2004-01-26T12:01:38Z")
Absolutely nothin’!!! Amazing really as so\_da\_ne is my username at quite a few sites. Hmmm…guess I need to be a little more VOCAL! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/17 "2004-01-26T12:03:28Z")
24,100 matches, most of which relate to the small town near Athens, the Eleusinian mysteries, and Greek mythology (as expected). I did, however find this juicy tidbit: Apparently, [I am in prison](http://www.rhodium.ws/chemistry/eleusis/memoirs.html) for running a clandestine ecstacy lab. Great story, check it out. ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/18 "2004-01-26T12:11:09Z")
“Hokkaido Brit” got nothing, but a search under my own name got a site that searches for people, and a message pleading for me to get in contact with a very creepy ex boyfriend who turned nasty and stalkerish when we split up nearly TWENTY YEARS AGO! Gaaah! I have had another example of him turning up out of the blue on the internet and finding me, too. Lucky for me I now live on another continent and have changed almost all aspects of my name… ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/19 "2004-01-26T13:39:17Z")
Mine came from a sci-fi book, so I would expect a lot of hits. ---
**Author:** ![herman\_and\_bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@herman\_and\_bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herman_and_bill)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113/20 "2004-01-26T13:40:25Z")
[Literotica.com](http://Literotica.com) - Members … No quote, yet. 00. hermans, M, 41-50, Not given. No quote, yet. 00. herman\_and\_bill, ? 18+, Not given. No quote, yet. 00. HerMaster, M, 41-50, NYC, No quote, yet. 00. … All I got back, true I am a member. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gooling-your-username/226113.md?page=2)