# Have you ever Googled yourself? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 29, 2002, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707 "2002-03-29T04:56:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/1 "2002-03-29T04:56:15Z")
Just wondering if you’ve ever done a web search of your own name, and if so what did you come up with? Mine was pretty boring… a bunch of geneology links. Some people who breed boxers. a woman who’s husband plays drums for some band. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/2 "2002-03-29T04:57:10Z")
I’m a foot-fetish porn star. Well, not _me_. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/3 "2002-03-29T05:04:14Z")
Mine wasn’t hugely interesting either. Basically, if you run a Google search for my name, you find a lot of song parodies, the Five-Minute Shakespeare series, the contributors’ page for the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, and some genealogies for people who are not me. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/4 "2002-03-29T05:27:52Z")
My virtual selves are far more interesting than the RL me. And that includes the rapid transit expert. ☹ Others race yachts and antique sports cars. ---
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/5 "2002-03-29T05:36:12Z")
AAAAH! I just did it, and I came up with my very own webpage. I was very surprised, it has only existed since October I think. Also, apparently a lot of people with my name are either librarians or school teachers or otherwise very ‘literary’–found one who wrote a book about Welsh myths. Yey 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/6 "2002-03-29T05:40:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Katisha \* > **…the Five-Minute Shakespeare series…** Then may I say that your RL name approaches absolute zero for cool? ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/7 "2002-03-29T05:42:43Z")
Wow! Apparently, I’ve done some interetsing stuff that I didn’t even know about. 1. I am a bassist in a band 2. I am a computer systems analyst 3. I am a visual artist 4. I am mayor of a city 5. I am a high school football coach 6. I escaped from an mental institution, shot and killed my family, then I committed suicide. 😕 I must have been sleepwalking or something. ---
**Author:** ![mdf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@mdf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mdf)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/8 "2002-03-29T05:56:32Z")
Interesting. I’m either a gay activist in NY, a mathematician in California, or a weightlifting coach somewhere else. Or a gay weightlifting mathematician. Hmm. -mdf ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/9 "2002-03-29T06:08:24Z")
All I get is references to the Enola Gay…the bomber that dropped an A-bomb on Hiroshima…with the word Straight somewhere on the page. ---
**Author:** ![Jen\_Jen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@Jen\_Jen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jen_Jen)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/10 "2002-03-29T06:29:07Z")
There is a tower at Cornell named after me! ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/11 "2002-03-29T06:52:45Z")
Mostly, I get me. I am a prolific web geek. Lots of web sites everywhere. (Geocities, Tripod, the works.) Plus some of my own domains. My sites are mostly Yosemite and art stuff. Then there are the sites of people who have linked to my Yosemite and art stuff, and have mentioned my name. The freakiest link to my site was from lady who enjoyed my “tutorial” on drawing so much, she drew one of my drawings - this is not uncommon among artists - and showed it on her page, crediting my site. Her drawing was of an eye I’d drawn. She copied “my” eye! And did a pretty good job, too! I also apparently held political office in London back in the '80s. But that’s about it. I have an unusual name. My last name, especially, is relatively common in the UK, but rare in the US. Most references to my last name (if not directed to my sites) are from England. ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/12 "2002-03-29T06:54:19Z")
Everyone with my exact first and last name seems to be in Brazil, even though I am neither Braziian and my name probably wouldn’t strike most people as very ‘Brazilian’ - it is a multiethnic country though. ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/13 "2002-03-29T07:11:11Z")
I come up with my Dad’s website, which has my name on it as web designer. Plus there’s apparently some Australian pilot with my name. I dunno. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/14 "2002-03-29T07:21:59Z")
Apparently I’m an ambassador in South Africa. ---
**Author:** ![BooBoo316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/15 "2002-03-29T07:28:08Z")
Hmmm… Apparently I’m taking a Portuguese computer science class. Also, I died in 1996. :eek: Somehow the question “Have you ever Googled yourself” sounds a little dirty. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/16 "2002-03-29T07:31:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > \*\* > Then may I say that your RL name approaches absolute zero for cool? \*\* Argh…that’s a terrible pun. 😉 (Thanks anyway.) BTW, I did actually write those Five-Minute Shakespeares (the histories, anyway, not the other ones), the song parodies I turned up were mine, and I did sequence some midis for the G&S Archive. There apparently aren’t many non-me people with my name hanging around on the Net. ---
**Author:** ![AbsolutelyStark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@AbsolutelyStark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbsolutelyStark)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/17 "2002-03-29T07:33:11Z")
Mine was kind of scary… there was a picture of a naked person who had the same name as me, someone who is in some movies, and someone who I thought was actually me until I realised it wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/18 "2002-03-29T08:20:53Z")
Google is smart. I typo’d my name and it corrected it for me. [see how smart](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=%22seven+grylands%22&btnG=Google+Search) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/19 "2002-03-29T08:38:47Z")
Ah, the ego trip… God bless it… All 11 resulting hits were about me and my science-fiction activities. Gosh, I might be the only “Bryan Ekers” on Earth! A few years ago, I probably could have gotten $500 million invested in a web company based on that premise, somehow. Curse my poor timing! ---
**Author:** ![heptapod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@heptapod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heptapod)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707/20 "2002-03-29T09:08:47Z")
I seem to be a soccer player in Pennsylvania. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/100707.md?page=2)