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I know this is a somewhat pointless topic, but I can't help wondering. I'm curious how many of you guys actually tried typing your name in Google? I did it a few minutes out of sheer boredom, and I was shocked on how many webpages came up for my name.

Then one of my friend did the same thing and got no "hits".

What about you guys?

Googling yourself is awesome. Apparently, I'm both a football player, an IT programmer, and a rodeo announcer.

Apparently I'm an African footballer and a Geography professor... :p

I'm a writer for multiple newspapers, it seems.

Googling my real name gives 13,300 hits. Numbers one and two are me :)

(Sadly, the first part of link one is outdated. But it was me, at Uni.)

If you use quotes then I pop up more in the 17 results, but links 2 and 2.5 aren't me :(

i'm a rock festival organiser it seems. cool!! :p


and a member of legendary pre-motorhead psychedelic band Hawkwind too ('79 lineup)
fuck me thats cool :D



edit: also a lt. colonel in the british army, and a member of the welsh national assembely :)
not bad for only just over 200 hits :eek:

I'm apparently:
An employee at a financial company in Detroit
A surgeon
Resident of the London borough of Camden
My Great-Grandfather

Actually, I'm all four;)

An ex-girlfriend found me once by googling my name. My mom also congradulated me on an award I got and a production by googling my name. It kinda creeped me out so I've done it since to see what's up there.

For the most part, it's actually me in festivals and productions that involve my plays. On one I'm credited with the wrong play, which is irratating because I hate the play that I'm credited with.

There is one other person with my name who I think is the coolest-he's a horseshoe champion who apparantly has been abducted by aliens. I really have to meet this cat some day.

Heh. My dad's a famous blues guitarist, according to google.

I found quite a few hits as I was involved in some primate stuff and a few other things.....

oh mygod im DEAD

and an aluma of the university of the incarnate word

and no one on the first page is ME.

Link number 1 and 1.5 are actually me.

I'm also a Graphic Designer, and a good one at that. Hmmm...

The third thing that came up was a link to me reviewing a movie, with my old email address on it too, weird.

Apparently I am:
baseball player for the Toronto Blue Jays,
a Fiddler,
snowborder,
and a graphics designer.

Interesting.

and a graphics designer.

wow everybody's got one of them... i did too.


and the weird thing is, i'm actually one IRL :eek:

I'm a restaurant owner, a CEO, a snowmobiler, and a few other things but I got 500,000 hits. It'd take forever to list each of them.:eek:

I'm a restaurant owner, a CEO, a snowmobiler, and a few other things but I got 500,000 hits. It'd take forever to list each of them.:eek:
OK, John Smith :p

A couple of tousand hits on a Lesbian Activist Porn Writer, a couple of Inventors and civil egineers, 6 for myself, and a crap load of Family frigging tree entries.

I know this is a somewhat pointless topic, but I can't help wondering. I'm curious how many of you guys actually tried typing your name in Google? I did it a few minutes out of sheer boredom, and I was shocked on how many webpages came up for my name.

Then one of my friend did the same thing and got no "hits".

What about you guys?

I put my name in and got a bunch of hits, including a soldier in an American Civil War regiment, and a lawer somewhere in the American Southwest.

EDIT: Yes, I used my real name.

~ Romandeos.

Elgesh']OK, John Smith :p

LOL. Nope. My first name's Randy which has 52 million hits, but if I add my last name it goes down to 500,000 hits.

Apparently I was born in Canada:eek:

i'm mentioned in shakespeares hamlet. ahahah

I am kinda creeped out by the results I got.

There was a page that had the names of me and about 300 other kids (15 are my age) from my school are on a list that shows are full legal name and what year we will be gradding in.
And another has my name and e-mail address.

Shit this ain't good.

EDIT: I figured out what the second one was. It was a list of people who have ordered Ubuntu CD's. The list has 187,684 names on it.

I'm a Vicar who lived in the most haunted house in Britain (now the most haunted burnt down building in Britain) from the mid-19th century, as a child with my parents, and later with my own wife and children, till my death in 1927. I, my parents, my siblings, and later my wife and two daughters all reported some extremely odd ghostly sightings and other occurences during our time there. How bout that? :p

I'm a woman's basketball coach and my friends are a gay Australian, an American doughboy who died in World War I, and a Texan fisherman, respectively. Weird.

i was married in 1835 and i have my own Auto Sales business...

42 hits... and they're all me.

I have an extremely unusual name.

Thats strange...got two results, both were me. Never knew these artcles existed. Apperently, My towns so small that winning an essay contest is front page news :rolleyes:

42 hits... and they're all me.

I have an extremely unusual name.
I have 4 hits, all of them me.

Going by my first English name and my last name I have:

Died Once in Iraq
Died Once in Afghanistan
Directed an award winning movie
Thrown in jail for treason
Was killed in a plane accident
Was given the name of a mass murderer
Played college American Football
Is in a band

I think that is it, my Hebrew name pulls up nada.

(roughly 134,000 hits, none of the first are me)

ha im supposedly a ballet dancer, a chess player, a liberty bell saver, a bridge player, I own a dutch furniture company, have relatives in Canada named angus ,composed spanish literature, and have been the CBO of a biotech company ha and am a leader in the swinger community in Germany.. not bad at 18

Nada

My name gets:

1. An award-winning male figure-skater!
2. A senior at some high-school school I never heard of.

My friends are apparently:

1. A Program Manager for Microsoft.
2. The exact name of a winery.

When I search for my name, I get some interesting results. I'm a Catholic, and one of the results says that I'm to recieve my first communion and reconciliation soon, at the church my mom went to. Which is really funny because my mom's Pentacostal, and I've already went through confirmation.

I'm also apparantly involved in ensuring classified documents don't get leaked from the Marine Corps.

I'm a jazz teacher.

I'm an award winning martial arts champion.

I'm an ITO.

I'm also a thief.

Finally, I'm on the honor rolls of various colleges, high schools, and elementary schools. I'm also in some page in the Washington Post. Which is interesting, because I've actually talked to WP reporters (though our story didn't make it to the paper).

Well has to be better than dying 4 times and being thrown in jail for murder during a 21 year span...

Oh and apparently I am mixed martial arts fighter too...

Oh yeah? Well my martial arts championship-ness pwns being just a plain old martial arts fighter :p

And I'll make sure to call Colodia "Señor Americano Estupido," since he wants it so bad. BTW, I like the Spanish ñ. I think it's bitchin'.

found a few more, I Have a PhD in a lot of things...


He actually sent that to me cause I originally didnt have it, and especially since I dont know Spanish.

how do you right the tilde(`) or the (~) on top of words?

how do you right the tilde(`) or the (~) on top of words?

its not a tilde. and you mean stuff like this?: áéíóúýẃ, äëïöüÿẅ, âêîôûŵŷ ãõñ? :D my keyboard layout is fun.

Shortcut on the keyboard... Anyway we need to get back on topic, so no more questions. Kay? Dont answer that.

You're in Scandinavia?

And my bad, the ~ is called a tilde.

Despite the rarity of my surname, there appear to be quite a few out there.


and a member of legendary pre-motorhead psychedelic band Hawkwind too ('79 lineup)
fuck me thats cool :D

Hawkwind rock.

Hawkwind rock.
You might not think they do. But they do.

Ha haa...even if I explained that you wouldn't understand why that's so funny...

I'm a controversial anchor at CNN who wears glasses and has a show called "NewsNight"

Googling yourself is awesome. Apparently, I'm both a football player, an IT programmer, and a rodeo announcer.

Sure that isnt rodeo clown?;)

hmm, I am a(n) :

energetic stock broker
vice-president of a volunteer fire department
a community service chairperson
a B-rated movie star
OBGYN

and a few other things

and the real me isn't until the third page......

wonder about my married name..
wow...nothing, nata, zilch, zero....hmmmm....weird

I have an unusual name so it shows me for real in the google search under my business. Im also part of an Irish clan, a reverend, a Dr of who knows what..., and apparently work for the state of NY. Hmmm I wonder how much I get paid for all these...

Bitchin', it seems that I am a gastroentologist, writer of some sort, own several large tracts of land, Suicide counselor, dead, just born, arrested, and my father and my grandfather (that's right, not only did I travel back in time to father myself, but I liked doing it so much, I went back and grandfathered myself as well).

I'm a journalist. My name's all over teh interwebs. :(

I'm a journalist. My name's all over teh interwebs. :(
Stephen Glass, is that you?

I only found seven references using my full name, and two of them were about me... two were about a doctor in Scotland, and the rest were just names broken up by commas and periods.

I'm only me. :) (when I search my name with quotes around it)

Stephen Glass, is that you?

No, I'm Robert Novak. :p

Unsurprisingly, I get numerous hits from the city of Billings, Montana.

Public Relations Officer at Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators

Both my first and last name are also regular words in the English language so I got 58,300,000 hits.

When I googled myself a while back I found that I share a name with a truly nutty Australian Communist. In the early 1990s he briefly published an online magazine (almost 4 whole issues!), devoted mostly to his incoherent rants against - no, not capitalists, but the Green Party. His stuff was good for a laugh, if not much else.

I'm also an insurance salesman in Connecticut and a computing maths student at the University of Manchester, apparantly. But that's not nearly as much fun.

:p

a grand total of 4, all me. wow i'm boring....should i try it without quotes?

a grand total of 4, all me. wow i'm boring....should i try it without quotes?
:p I got something like 12,000 with quotes on.
But I couldn't find any of them on the first 5 pages that were me as opposed to me, understand?

I'm a filmmaker, a professor at a very prestigious college, a student at another college, a prospect for a baseball organization, a marine biologist, I got assaulted by an ex, and I'm a technician at another very prestigious college.

I used to have an entry for myself, but I guess that expired or something.

Ever Google-Imaged your name?

:p I got something like 12,000 with quotes on.
But I couldn't find any of them on the first 5 pages that were me as opposed to me, understand?

lol!! i'm entirely me....i guess my name is very unusual!

I always get Allan Pinkerton. He helped the North win the Civil War, and I'm a direct descendent.

When I google my name I come up somewhere in the top 3 (actual me, not the pretend me who is a bank prez that comes up first)

My husband comes up in the top 5 when I google him (well his blog does)

My daughter Annika comes up first if I do english only results (actually her, from the time she was in the local paper, hows that first media appearance at 18 months) If I don't do english only then someone else with the same name comes up, but it's all in German so I can't read it.

and my daughter Kathryn doesn't come up on the first 5 pages but she is on the 6th for when she was in the paper for winning a citizenship award.

It would appear I'm a graffiti rock judge from Pittsburg.

It would appear I'm a graffiti rock judge from Pittsburg.

Pittsburg, California; or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?

I've actually got myself. It's all stuff from school, including a couple things I wrote into the school newspaper that got printed.

Pittsburg, California; or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?

The one with the H, though I refuse to be held accountable for typos on THEIR page.

Pittsburg, California; or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?

Is there any difference? Yes, I have been to both.;)

The one with the H, though I refuse to be held accountable for typos on THEIR page.

Well, if it was a typo on their page, I won't hold you accountable. :D

Well, if it was a typo on their page, I won't hold you accountable. :D

I don't think graffiti artists and judges are too touchy about spelling, anyway. That's what I gather from the local railyard, anyway.

whoo hoo!!!!!!!!! I just googled myself again (the last time I had was 6 months ago) and I came up in the top 3 spots (yeah, google loves me, take that mr. bank prez sitting at #4 :D)

Ever Google-Imaged your name?

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/FiveShadow/images.jpg

http://photobucket.com/albums/c18/FiveShadow/?action=view&current=images.jpg&slideshow=true&interval=3

Wow you look like a login prompt????

When I moved to a new school, some little asian kid googeld me up, ( First name, last name from town) and he found a hit. IT was a pic of me and my school chums after we had won the chicago solar car competetion. I was a lil freaked but happy to be on a complete strangers website.

37 hits.

First 6 are actually me...2 high school, one NS and 3 Uni.

It also suggest "Florian Wolfowitz" --- :eek:

But my name is not exactly common, so no actual mentions of my full name that are not from me.

I know this is a somewhat pointless topic, but I can't help wondering. I'm curious how many of you guys actually tried typing your name in Google? I did it a few minutes out of sheer boredom, and I was shocked on how many webpages came up for my name.

Then one of my friend did the same thing and got no "hits".

What about you guys?
Go ahead and google my name:

Michael Murphy

There cant be too many of those.

I just googled my brother and got 23 hits. The vast majority was the little crap head. Damn I think I need to get on the web more.

Go ahead and google my name:

Michael Murphy

There cant be too many of those.
*googles*
<sound of jaw hitting the floor>
No fucking way. 700,000 Michael Murphys? That's just too much.
I think we need to kill you and a handful of the people that share your name just to thin the herd a bit.

Nothing.

Then again, not too many other people are called "His Most Glorious and Eternal Majesty, the most Supreme Ruler of the Multiverse <CENSORED>, High Lord and Master of all Living and Non-Living Beings, Ruler of all the Fishes of the Sea, Birds of the Air, and Beasts of the Land, Ruler of the Trillion Dimensions (and then some), The Master of Sarcasm and All For(u)ms of Wit, Slayer of Enemies, The Fearsome Warlord..." (you get the idea)

I just googled my name and found out that there is only one me, and apparently, I am a complete jackass.

Thanks.

"His Most Glorious and Eternal Majesty, the most Supreme Ruler of the Multiverse <CENSORED>, High Lord and Master of all Living and Non-Living Beings, Ruler of all the Fishes of the Sea, Birds of the Air, and Beasts of the Land, Ruler of the Trillion Dimensions (and then some), The Master of Sarcasm and All For(u)ms of Wit, Slayer of Enemies, The Fearsome Warlord..." (you get the idea)
You forgot to mention your position as "Prime Minister of the Turd People"! You're always doing that, it almost makes it seem as if you look down on the electoral processes of the Turd People as somehow frivolous or inane.

There's only one me.

You forgot to mention your position as "Prime Minister of the Turd People"! You're always doing that, it almost makes it seem as if you look down on the electoral processes of the Turd People as somehow frivolous or inane.No, it's all due to position. You see, that was my 514th title, and normally most people are asleep by the time I pass the 65th... the short attention spans these days! *shakes head*

No, it's all due to position. You see, that was my 514th title, and normally most people are asleep by the time I pass the 65th... the short attention spans these days! *shakes head*
You should get their attention back by jazzing up your list. I'd start reading them with Copland's Appalachin Spring in the background and periodic explosions, for no reason that I could justify before a jury of my peers.

You should get their attention back by jazzing up your list. I'd start reading them with Copland's Appalachin Spring in the background and periodic explosions, for no reason that I could justify before a jury of my peers.
I've tried nitroglycerine, permeating the room with ammonia at certain intervals, dynamite, potassium ferricyanide, whipped cream, peanut butter, and elephant stampedes... but people still fall asleep. I'm not too sure why.

How is it that everyone else lists extraordinarily cool occupations that their other selves are, and me...well:
I'm someone who apparently finds amusement in attending Public Education Joint Appropriation Subcommittee meetings
I'm also the president of a Dental Insurance Plan.

Whooo Hoooo! Bring on the excitement.

203 hits for my name, and they're all me or my family. That's what you get with a name like Tiefenbruck.

Im a judo champion in childrens judo
a member of mower county board of commisions
hey one was actually me
some guy in pensalvania (sp?)
a boy scout in 2004 (wow i was 22 big weirdness that one)
thats it

Aha! No google results for my name.. just the way I like it.. if anyone starts badmouthing me, I'll know it. :)

I'm an amercan football hall of fame player

I'm a famous session musician

I'm a game designer

I'm a political comentator

I'm a real estate agent in Arkansas

I'm also an author

I also found a scary pic of myself on page two of a google image search.:rolleyes:

Has anyone considered creating a wikipedia article on themselves? lol.

If I search for my name as an exact phrase, I get 27 hits, all of which actually refer to me.

If I just search for my first and last name, but not the exact phrase, I get those 27 hits, followed by several hundred that refer to my namesake.

Not very interesting, I'm afraid. :(

According to google i dont exist.

should i be depressed and accept my fate or wear revealing clothes to try and get google to notice me?

According to google i dont exist.

should i be depressed and accept my fate or wear revealing clothes to try and get google to notice me?
You should take advantage of teh fact that Google isn't paying any attention to you and steal Google's wallet.

I find myself only as a member of the band , where i have played, and the composer of some LARP-Songs

my surname gives 352000 hits in google

I played Chinese Man (husband) in a movie once.

And I died in 2001 and received minor honors and recognition.:eek:

ok try my link again i fixed it

I know this is a somewhat pointless topic, but I can't help wondering. I'm curious how many of you guys actually tried typing your name in Google? I did it a few minutes out of sheer boredom, and I was shocked on how many webpages came up for my name.
12,800 hits for Safalra and they're all me.

Has anyone considered creating a wikipedia article on themselves? lol.
Those tend to get deleted pretty quickly, unless you're actually someone notable (or can fake it well enough).

:p

Infinite Tai Chi and Infinite Chi Kung teacher.
Someone want to know more about hepatitis C :p
Scientist- Clinical (Department of Paediatrics and Child Health)
A song named after a dead teen or something

and lots of other stuff lol

I am a Java-application, a school and a dutch spiritual magazine.. Yay! (I'm not gonna look through 15 million hits, thank you very much)

Those tend to get deleted pretty quickly, unless you're actually someone notable (or can fake it well enough).

:p

Bah.... Well, I suppose it would get out of hand quickly.

Maybe if I claim to be the spiritual leader of some cult.

Or a priest in the Cult of Czardas. :p

Google must burn in hell. My brother can be entered into google and you find his website.

Not much except some stuff I posted about a mobile phone and a book on Amazon.com.

I googled myself with a couple other words and the first 5 links were all me!! Lucky me...

I googled myself with a couple other words and the first 5 links were all me!! Lucky me...
Bah! Google 'Safalra' and the first 12,800 links are all me (probably).

I got 500,000 hits. It'd take forever to list each of them.:eek:Hi Pamela Anderson ;) how is your sweet body doing? :D

It seems I'm a Karate/Kickboxing instructor in Italy, I found a reference to my Grandfather, who shared the same name as me, and I found some posts by myself on other forums which I no longer visit.

I'm a goal keeper and captain of a German school soccer team;
I majored in geo-sciences of some sort and am apparently in the UK right now;
I did the lighting design for some theatre workshop;
I'm working on microbiology and wine research (at the same time!) and
I won the regional school championship in Judo last year.

I wonder whether I should send my alter-egos a christmas card? http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/santa.gif

Over 34 million hits! :eek:

I got about 25 hits for me and two alter egos - apart from me being myself, I'm also some PR chick for Coca Cola Austria, and I'm also an immigrant to the US who *gulp* died in the late 1800s.

I wonder whether I should send my alter-egos a christmas card? http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/santa.gif
I once e-mailed a couple of people with the same name as me (before I started going by the unique name 'Safalra'), and neither of them replied. Meanies.

I did my name in quotes and only pages from the UK.

Apparently I'm an actor (although a pretty small-time one from the looks of things), a football player, a professor at Liverpool University, a Major in the Army and some kind of golf player. Not bad.

Anyone else had the idea to try and find other people's real names by searching for all the stuff they listed as them being on this thread?

Googling my name turns up about 4,420,000 hits, some of which ( including most of the top ones! ) actually have to do with either me or my younger son, who has the same name. :D

With 777,000 hits for my birth name the major one that cam up was an art historian followed by an attorney, a kennel assistant and a marketing director.

*googles*
<sound of jaw hitting the floor>
No fucking way. 700,000 Michael Murphys? That's just too much.
I think we need to kill you and a handful of the people that share your name just to thin the herd a bit.

Funny you should mention that--I googled my name(but in quotes and included the middle andi got Just 2 hits about same person. Appearently I died in Florida this past march. I guess I should stop ...doing stuff.

If you google my name without quotes you get over 25 million

Hmmm...Welll, If I google my own name, I get a hurricane:headbang:
Oh well.
Hey; here are a few more tricks to try googleing:
1) Type in "Failure", without the quotes
Instead of hitting "Search" hit "I'm feeling Lucky"
2) Try Googling 'miserable failure', but hit regular search. Look at the first 2 sites that pop up.

The first also works with "worst president" & try "next president". I guess we know where Google sits in reguards to politics...

I'm apparantly I'm an Irish Dancer, a western horseback rider, a fencer, a Lacrosse player, a member of the Michigan mathematics league (ha) and a long distance runner. Only three of those are really me.:)

I once e-mailed a couple of people with the same name as me (before I started going by the unique name 'Safalra'), and neither of them replied. Meanies.
What!?? I've always read your name as Salafra! My world is falling appart! This is wrong.

When I google my name the first hits are police incidents in my University newspaper. Also an article with someone being interviewed during a riot that cost over 80,000 dollars of damage who says (out of context) that the police were irresponsible in their actions in dealing with it.

Unfortunately this person is indeed me. :eek:

If I Add My Last Name, There's Nothing (Its Alex Wuori) If I Put In My First Name.... Well.... Nuff Said....

Wow, I googled myself and the first result actually was me: an essay I wrote that got posted to a website. That's never happened before. My name's Georgia, so the only thing I've usually ever gotten is stuff about the state of Georgia. It seems I'm moving up in the world :P

Apparently I am an actor!

21 hits.
Supposedly I'm a:
runner
soccer player
math geek
essay winner

of course they're all lying...
>.>
<.<

What!?? I've always read your name as Salafra! My world is falling appart! This is wrong.
Maybe you should get tested for dyslexia...

i'm a famous african-american blues singer
and i own a florida cadillac dealership

I'm appearantly a very accomplished dirtbiker aswell as a reasonably good secondary school grafitti artist. It seems I also never moved out of England.

My wife is on the faculty of several universities around the world and is the character in a historical romance novel. She's also several actresses in England and Ireland. I always thought she was nuts, now I have proof. Not just multiple personalities, but multiple bodies too.