# I have the most pathetic web presence in the world. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 20, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-most-pathetic-web-presence-in-the-world/256061 "2004-07-20T20:35:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tiggrkitty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggrkitty/32/17966_2.png) [@Tiggrkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiggrkitty)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-most-pathetic-web-presence-in-the-world/256061/21 "2004-07-21T12:47:59Z")
I am just a figment of my own imagination. I don’t exist anywhere on the web. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-most-pathetic-web-presence-in-the-world/256061/22 "2004-07-21T12:48:07Z")
Oh, I’ve got plenty of presence. My last name takes a while to bring up anything that is actually me. Apparently I’m a hot vacation spot in the UK, a a hunky soap star and a new-agey composer. My first and last name brings up tons of stuff relating to me—lots of old moldy websites I wrote ages ago and have forgotten about, and also my current sites. Also some links to my sites as well. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-most-pathetic-web-presence-in-the-world/256061/23 "2004-07-21T13:06:37Z")
I have an unusual name, so I was somewhat surprised that Google came up with 2,200 entries. None of them are me. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-most-pathetic-web-presence-in-the-world/256061/24 "2004-07-21T14:11:14Z")
My married name is unusual, so there were only a few hits. 1. According to their website, I’m apparently still on staff at the CPA firm I left over a year ago. 2. I’m on a support group message board for people who have had weight loss surgery. 3. My sister-in-law did a family tree dealie and I’m on that. My maiden name is common, but my first name is not. However, a search of that name points to an actress who played a recurring, yet minor, character on _The Wonder Years_. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-most-pathetic-web-presence-in-the-world/256061/25 "2004-07-21T14:32:39Z")
When I did quotation-marks, my maiden name only turned up in a “permutation of possible names”. My married name turned up three pages, all related to my art and junk on my website. ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-most-pathetic-web-presence-in-the-world/256061/26 "2004-07-21T14:33:13Z")
I share my real life name with a fairly well known music producer so doing a vanity search reveals nothing but page after page of fan sites…to bad they’re not devoted to me 🙂 As for my SDMB name, well, it happens to be the name of a molecular shape. Doing a vanity search on it just results in several thousand chemistry pages. However, as an experiment, I invented a word a few years back when I first started out on the internet. I use it on certain less-important message boards, websites and newsgroups. Interestingly, this word does have an internet presence; I intent to continue to develop it just for experiment’s sake. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-most-pathetic-web-presence-in-the-world/256061/27 "2004-07-21T14:36:31Z")
I use the short form of my middle name, which, when combined with my last name, is the same as a fairly famous NBA player. I can’t be bothered to slog through the 74,400 hits. Middle name long form, last name. 3,700 hits, mostly the ball player again (bio sites). My full name gets nuthin’. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-most-pathetic-web-presence-in-the-world/256061/28 "2004-07-21T14:58:20Z")
No hits for me on Google either. (Last time I checked) ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-most-pathetic-web-presence-in-the-world/256061/29 "2004-07-21T15:04:26Z")
Personal hits 5 hits on Model Rockety one for a kit review one contact info one about me and the girls sending Barbie up in a rocket. one about the flight of my “G” powered flying saucer and my NAR contest points for 2002 1 Amateur Telescope Making something about being unable to unsubscribe from the ATM mail list. compared to most of you I’m famous! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-the-most-pathetic-web-presence-in-the-world/256061.md?page=1)