Put your first name into Google; how far do you have to go before you don't recognise the person?

The third entry is for a character name on a long running TV show. I didn’t remember the name but after reading the entry I should have.

I’m not sure that was such a good idea in my case.

Once again, I remind the Board that I am a guy :frowning:

I first got something to do with SCUBA, mention of a biblical person, and some sort of Japanese rating thing. Then there were a couple of persons I had never heard of.

A couple local places
A couple popular movies
A couple video game references
Actress from Gilligan’s Island

Then some Hall of Fame basketball player I’ve never heard of. Staley

Urban Dictionary:An irresistible beautiful girl who can make her very special sexy friend hard and horny and is proud of it.
“If you were here right now I’d Dawn you.”

The first google entry is for thing rather than a person. The remainder of the first page and next page are names of relatively unknown athletes and businessmen.

Hello, my name is Gary.
First link: Wikipedia entry for Gary, Indiana
Second Link: Wikipedia entry for ‘Gary (given name)’
Third link: A post I made on Google+ (yeah…I can hear you laughing…don’t judge)
Fourth link: “Report: Several playoff teams, including Hawks, trying to trade for Gary Neal”

From context, I can tell you that Gary Neal plays NBA basketball for some team other than the Atlanta Hawks, but other than that he’s a complete mystery to me.

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Wtf is a ‘Minecraft Steve’? I nearly had a whole page I knew, except the last entry was a professor at Cardiff U.[/QUOTE]

Steve is the name of the main character in Minecraft.

I get pages of Jamie Oliver links, before someone called Jamie-T turns up that I’ve not heard of. Jamie Lee Curtis is below even him.

It seem like the Google algorithm figures people just don’t search for the first name of famous people. It takes until page 8 of “Bill” to get Bill Clinton (and even then, it’s not him, it’s the Clinton foundation.)

Good point. With this in mind, I just typed my first name in the search box and let it autocomplete, instead of actually searching. First suggestions:

Jan Hooks
Jan Michael Vincent
Jan Smithers (no idea)

Every guy who remembers the late 1970s knows she was Bailey on WKRP in Cincinnati :slight_smile:

Damn my parents for naming me Taylor-swift. I gave up looking at page 300.

There is no one famous in the entire world with my first name. Until the last 5 or 6 years I could only find 2 other people with it (both men and older than me so I wasn’t the first). There seems to be at least 4 or 5 others of us now and I think one of them is a woman!!

Anyway, I didn’t recognize any of them. Looked as far as page 5 and didn’t find myself. I’m far too lazy to look farther than that.

My name is Peter. Googling for Peter, the first three results refer to the saint or the Wikipedia page on the name. The fourth result is some “virtual tarot” site called “Peter answers.” Then we get to people with last names. We have “Peter Dinklange” and “Peter Drucker,” then “Peter Merholz” before we get to “Peter Gabriel,” somebody I had actually heard of.

The first several links go to the TV cartoon character “Doug”.
Then it links Doug Benson, Doug Aitken, and a character on Portlandia, none of which I’m familiar with.

A search of my first and last names goes 8 pages before my DeviantArt page comes up.

I had to go 7 name entries down just to get to the first one I recognized. (Skipping over uses that didn’t apply to people.)

fourth result. I had no idea there was a band named “James” in England.

I know this is just a minor thread but the only reason I haven’t responded is due to Tapatalk making it now impossible to see your own threads and me only occasionally accessing this board on an actual laptop.

Also because we’ve all (haven’t we?) done searches for our own full name now and then, but this is just for reasons of curiosity.

I’m curious about your real first name, now.

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking of, if I was thinking at all - whether the results were surprising.

I got two letters in and didn’t know the person.

Number 1 was a rapper I’ve never heard of. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Regards,
Shodan

First listing is a famous fashion designer; others I never heard of.

According to the urban dictionary, my name means “chick magnet.” As a gay man, I find this mildly amusing.

But it was interesting seeing references to my date of death, as well as marriage and divorce and kids . . . none of which I’ve had.