Googled!

And know where they live.

Only kidding.

How odd. The simple substitution of 'girl' for 'bloke' would have made me childishly happy. I wonder who he was.

i mainly don't use my full name on ilx so that when i google myself in a spasm of weary vanity i don't just get a million pages of bored ilx half-assedness

in answer to the question: not really, tho t.ewing did in fact email me in response to something i posted elsewhere, which is why i am here so anything stupid i evah wrote blame him

The latter had nothing to do with being googled, tho'. Well, maybe slightly. Mostly I couldn't think of a good reason for having a site. My blog was boring me and the rest of the content was rubbish. Oh well. Maybe it'll return someday...

In Yahoo (first and last name only in quotes), I get 17,000
In Google I get 18,900

So, it's unlikely someone could find me that way.

If someone were to type in my psuedo SARAH MCLUSKY, they would just find stuff on ILX.

However, if you search for "Times Ten" and Sarah, you come up with my blog, my band web page, and ILXor.

Lastly, I've found that googling someone's email is the best way to find information on them.

As far as I know, nobody (other than my bf ILXor) knows that I post here.

(Those who consider that a challenge should please e-mail me any results rather than posting them to the interweb, thank you.)

"Trayce" produces all kinds of hits, mostly me - usenet stuff I did, my LiveJournal (wtf!), some photos on my old website, and then a whole slew of other people called Trayce, which is weird because I made this spelling up.

I know the feeling. ;-)

http://www.athenshigh.com/1949/pics/StephensCurtis49.jpg

"Where, oh werewolf?"

When I google my name I get some work-related hits, a few for some school projects that ended-up on the web, and that's about it. I'm dull. Or reclusive. Or maybe I wasn't spelling my name correctly (I was tired the last time I tried it, I think *sigh*).

(hee hee)

http://www.stleonardsfc.co.uk/Squad%20Details/Player%20Pages/Paul%20Henty%20Page.htm

Doesn't everyone know that everything has already been done before?

j/k

I am thinking about starting a few threads here under my real name, purely to make the whole Google situation more respectable. But I can't think of any good questions just now.

The best mis-googling incident I've been subject to is that some sheriff from the midwest somewhere emailed me asking if I'd run his jail for him. Seems my domain name is the same as the acronym for the largest private prison management coproration in the US...
-- Dave Fischer

I google myself every once in a while, especially since I learned that this is an easy way to find many people who are violating copyright on my written work or photography or that of people who wrote for my online magazine.

The most unusual information I discovered was that my psuedonym was a recently purchased URL. I checked the whois database to see who this person was and what parallel universe they lived in, having the same silly name...well, come to find out it was someone who was apparently very angry with me and I presume purchased the domain in order to create a website about what an awful person I am and how I should burn in hell after being righteously flogged in real life.

You know usually I bad mouth lawyers...probably because all of my siblings and most of my relatives are lawyers (and me, being the troublemaker I suppose, am NOT a lawyer)...but thank god for tort law. Hopefully this will keep anyone that may wish to resort to purchasing a URL for these types of uses from actually acting upon the urge.

Here's hoping the parties in question google me and find this post so I can thank them for keeping the URL forever "under construction".

There are happy google results too...I just 'regoogled' myself and saw a photo of mine on chrisbrokaw.com .

Considering I absolutely love Chris' work and I gave him permission to use the photos I sent him, I am thrilled and honored that he posted it. Thanks, Chris!

Er, I am now hoping that this thread dies before Lara gets back from York.

GuestName: Minna Wight/University High School
Address: [email protected]
Date: 98-07-22
Time: ¿ÀÈÄ 6:20:38
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I'm an Australian student currently endeavoring to research rechargable batteries, and would be extremely grateful if you could refer some useful websites to me...I've been having some difficulty getting my hands on relevant information.

they never helped me btw :(

3)lamar county texas genealogy site
births 1926

Mc Bee, Minna Wight
born:10-4-1926
sex:F
mother: Lucille Mary Maness
father: John Hobbs Mcbee

i wish my name was minna wight mcbee! might add the mcbee from now on anyway. the original mcbee's birthday is only 12 days away from mine - 2 if i hadn't been ten days late!

"Sometimes I read my writing and think I am ripping off of _________. " (___________ = writer whom I sort of know and I adore his writing).

So, someone googled his ass and found my livejournal and left a scathing comment that went something like this:

"Hi, I'm ___________'s ex-girlfriend and I am shocked you'd parade around the internet unashamed of plagiarizing. You make me sick. @#$*(@#$*)$#$."

When I said "ripping off" I didn't mean plagiarism. That lady=dumb.

"Sometimes I read my writing and think about how I don't care that I have just copied out one of _________'s stories and will I show it to other people and pretend it is my story and take the credit for it."

then she might have been a little bit justified.

[p.s. I'm not trying to say that you should have typed anything like the above+I have never read anything by _________].

Hey, I am the biggest whiner when it comes to copyright violation...and even I think I would have known what you meant.

It seems when it comes to creative writing, the idea that nothing is new or original is somewhat true. It all comes from SOMEWHERE...like a past experience. Maybe a past experience consisted of reading something good and it influenced your work.

That's funny though...sounds like you were giving a compliment to the guy and the person's ex got offended. Seems like she's a fairly good writer from her post, eh?...if the post wasn't a joke...then that may actually be kinda creative.

*shudders*

I don't think I've ever been googled. Pretty hard, my name is awfully common.

About the time I did this, the top link for me was the college webpage of a student of mine, and it listed my university email address, so I got a couple of random emails from boyfriends I'd had when I was 12 and 14. That address no longer works, so I guess anyone googling me will have to do harder work to track me down.

(yes, lipitor, there sure are a lot of pages about you)

Reg-only on this thread from here on, I think.

I'm reasonably (but not completely) un-googleable thankfully.

I finally found myself, I was result #107. I didn't know Flickr contacts displayed full names! I've got to do something about that...

1) an Australian senator
2) a British folk musician
3) a Jamaican-descended rapper who had several Eurotrash hits in Germany
4) a professor of Scottish & Victorian literature at the University Of Edinburgh

so I'm actually kind of hard to find online.

http://www.davidcurley.com/grp/pix/gerry.jpg

I'm also a Lib Dem Councillor, the point of contact for a company's "ferric division" and a former Commando who lost his leg in the Falklands.

Normally, if you google me, I'm the only result you get, and there's about 2 or three pages of me-related things. EXCEPT!! This one just turned up too! Somebody is playing some RPG or something and they're using MY NAME! :(

Googling "Forest Pines" brings up a local hotel - which isn't surprising, because that's where I nicked the name from.

Googling the name of my website brings my website up, though. I normally get about one person per day who reaches my website by googling for its name, or its name in combination with something I've written about in the past.

Och, you shouldae known better.