For some reason or another, I have used the same username for every forum that I sign up for over the past couple of years. The recent threads on “I am most famous Doper” or “Least famous Doper” got me searching Google on my real name. Suffice it to say, a) I have an incredibly common name, and b) nothing I’ve ever done under my real name would’ve made it to Google anyway. So I gave up.
But then I searched on my username. Hooray me! 2 full pages in Google.
Most of these are threads in some forum or another - I’ve even been quoted twice, under my username! Double-hooray me!
What’s weird is that the three places I’ve posted the most (Straight Dope, FFToday, and Camelot Vault) don’t seem to index in Google. Otherwise, I’d be incredibly famous.
What about you?
What’s even more interesting is that you can start to learn alot about a person by what and where they post.
Don’t bother . Google my user name and you get 473,000 hits. I gave up after pages and pages of Ken Loach(film director) sites and articles about the fish. I didn’t even find any about what I got the name from. Who knows how long it would take to get to one of my posts.
Nothing for my real name either. The most famous guy with my real name is an author who writes about fishing.
25,000 for first and last name in quotes. I presume most are not me.
30 with first name, middle initial and last name in quotes. I think a grand total of one is specifically about me.
However, that beats my board name. Nightwatch Trailer in quotes yields 12 results, with none in reference to me. (They’re all about movie trailers for the film Nightwatch.)
Real Name: 10,200 – most not about me (rather commonish name)
SDMB Username: goose egg
Other Username: 336 – some about/by me, a few about/by an imposter who uses my name, most just featuring the word combination
No help, but :eek: :If you google my real name, “first name last name” you get 3 pages with 82 results, I’m in the middle of page 2.
If you go to the last page and “repeat the search with the omitted results included” I’m pages 2-8.
I didn’t bother searching without the quotes, because my first & last real names are quite common, as is Newell.
Real name in quotes–2 responses. One from a website I lasted visited when I was about 14, the other is the final rankings form a debating tournament last year.
“Jayn Newell”–Three responses, all me, though one threw me for a bit. It was on a message board I have never seen before, but a quick look showed it was the online list from a message board I visit quite often.
Jayn_Newell–13 responses, all me.
“Jayne Newell”–Though I’ve had this mispelling fairly often, none of the responses were me. Actually, most were someone named Jayne Newell-Lanza, a network CEO.
Just out of cursiosity, I googled an older username of mine, which I haven’t used in ages. 12 responses, all the seemlingly same person, but not me.
“Firstname Lastname” 229, including a British Army Officer (Brigadier) in Iraq and an Australian PM, neither of which is me (though I am on the first page).
Username 233, quite a few of them me.
Pretty close there.
I checked on Yahoo. My real name got about 103 hits, but CalMeacham got 20, of which 4 were me! Most of the others were either a Band or for the novel This Island Earth
I know my real name can garner more than 103 hits.
First name - 22,800,000 hits
Last name - 12,600,000 hits
“First name last name” - 6,740 hits, nearly all of which are either some uber-famous anchorman in Australia, or the head of the Computer Science department at Cambridge.
Username (in quotes) - 17,600 hits. If any of them are me, I don’t have time to find them. Rest assured that most of them are not. Oddly, I get a lot of pages about some 80’s band from England.
RolandOrzabal (no spaces), though, returns results which are probably 10% me; mostly posts on various message boards.
Username: 4 hits, all related to stuff I posted here (three of them for my contributions to the “If Tolkien had been written by someone else” thread if you must know)
My real name: 11 hits. One is for an article I was co-author on in the Harvard Business Review. One is for a very obscure fictional character who happens to share my name. The rest are for my recently deceased uncle who also had the same name as me and had a few books and articles published.
. Google my user name and you get 473,000 hits. I gave up after pages and pages of Ken Loach(film director) sites and articles about the fish. I didn’t even find any about what I got the name from. Who knows how long it would take to get to one of my posts.
