# Have you ever googled yourself?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 5, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171 "2016-07-05T23:44:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Hbk4894](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbk4894)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/1 "2016-07-05T23:44:33Z")
If so what came up?
I’m a tattoo artist according to google
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### Author:  [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/2 "2016-07-06T00:43:42Z")
Sure, all the time. Since I have a very rare combination of first and last name, within the first four Google results you can find out my company and title, work address, work phone, home address, home phone, Street View picture of my house, map with my address pinpointed, age and parents’ names.
I guess it’s a good thing I’m not trying to hide from anyone.
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### Author:  [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/3 "2016-07-06T00:54:12Z")
Looking up my first, middle, and last name in Google and Wikipedia it appears I was a “General Authority” in the Mormon church a while back (amusing, because IRL I am atheist).
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### Author:  [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/4 "2016-07-06T00:55:44Z")
Yep. Four things under my real name, which is four more than I’d like. But they are white pages, Spokeo, Facebook, and a newspaper article, so I’m not sure how to get rid of them.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/5 "2016-07-06T01:55:47Z")
Yup. First three hits are me; then several hits for things in Scotland; then a few more for me.
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### Author:  [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/6 "2016-07-06T02:03:40Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#):
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> Sure, all the time. Since I have a very rare combination of first and last name, within the first four Google results you can find out my company and title, work address, work phone, home address, home phone, Street View picture of my house, map with my address pinpointed, age and parents’ names.
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> I guess it’s a good thing I’m not trying to hide from anyone.
Exactly this for me. The whole first page is me, all me, nobody but me.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/7 "2016-07-06T02:03:55Z")
I have the same name as a popular TV personality, so 30 pages of him and I just don’t feel like checking any further. I kinda like the anonymity (hide in plain sight).
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/8 "2016-07-06T02:09:58Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> Yup. First three hits are me; then several hits for things in Scotland; then a few more for me.
Me too. My marketing people must be good at their jobs. I’m most of the first page if I type my full name, middle initial.
If I leave out the middle initial, I’m still in the top three.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/9 "2016-07-06T02:40:32Z")
About 8,000 hits, almost all of which are me. I have a unique name and have published a lot.
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### Author:  [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/10 "2016-07-06T02:41:01Z")
I share a name with many people more famous than me. None of them very famous, but enough to make it hard to find me. I’m an engineer. One of the guys was a VP at Hewlett Packard. If you put in my home state, you get a cancer center.
Then there’s the orchestra…and the lawyer.
Adding my full first name and/or my middle name doesn’t help. I’m not in the first page of Google Images, or any of the search results.
This is in spite of the fact that I’ve been active in internet-ish stuff since the early 90s. I was a regular on several usenet groups. I maintained FAQ sheets. I had a web page listed in a paperback of all known web pages. I made one of the first web pages for one of my college sports. And so forth. I’m easily found if you know the right key words for those things…but not just by name.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/11 "2016-07-06T02:53:48Z")
I just Googled my full name, and a bunch of photos popped up, none of them of me, and 3 of them were men. My name is not unisex, either; it’s definitely feminine.
I Googled my first and last name, and got the usual, which includes a British pediatrician. The young woman from Utah must have gotten married; she isn’t on the first page any more.
I also got the impression that my middle and last name were creating most of the hits the first time around, and it turns out there’s an artist whose given name is (my middle name) (her middle name) (my last name) and she has a website.
Everyone should Google themselves, and their e-mail addresses, occasionally just to see what’s out there on them. My former main e-mail address mostly led to foreign porno sites. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/12 "2016-07-06T02:59:00Z")
Most of the first page is me, but there is also someone who was convicted of murder.:eek:
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/13 "2016-07-06T03:14:51Z")
> [@Knorf](#):
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> Most of the first page is me, but there is also someone who was convicted of murder.:eek:
Someone who is not you?
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/14 "2016-07-06T04:00:01Z")
My last name is uncommon, but there’s a computer science professor with my name who accounts for a large portion of Google hits. There’s also a brand manager for a beverage company and a guy who makes bagpipes who outrank me in terms of hits, but the professor is by far in first place.
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### Author:  [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/15 "2016-07-06T04:15:18Z")
Goggling my full name informs me that I am the father of one of Jack the Ripper’s victims!
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### Author:  [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/16 "2016-07-06T05:02:15Z")
I share a name with several famous people. I’ve tried a few times out of curiosity, and have never found myself in the results.
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### Author:  [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/17 "2016-07-06T06:32:39Z")
> [@Bookkeeper](#):
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> Goggling my full name informs me that I am the father of one of Jack the Ripper’s victims!
Condolences.
My first, middle, and last names are each common first, middle, and last names. I’m completely buried in Google search results. You have to enter my full name in quotation marks and sift through absolute garbage to get the opportunity to buy a report which previews my correct age and a few correct relations but more than 50% of the preview is incorrect.
There’s stuff to be found but you have to know a whole lot about me to even get started and Google isn’t much help.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/18 "2016-07-06T07:34:37Z")
Googling my lastname brings up Famous Cousin first, then Scholarly Cousin, then one of my uncles, and then hi me.
When someone wants my resume to include a publications list, I google myself. The one article I have has a truly long-ass name which I don’t bother to try and remember, but thankfully it’s online.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/19 "2016-07-06T07:52:59Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> Me too. My marketing people must be good at their jobs. I’m most of the first page if I type my full name, middle initial.
I don’t have marketing people. Just me. And my Scottish first name and last name. For a while there, I was getting a lot of hits for Scottish golf courses, but that seems to have tapered off in favour of Scottish travel agencies, for some odd reason.
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### Author:  [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2016, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-googled-yourself/759171/20 "2016-07-06T08:26:45Z")
I have the same last name as a former professional football player; most of the hits I got were of him even though his first name is nothing like mine.
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