Does Your Name Google?

simnettpratt · Sep 1, 2013

My name is unique. About 450 years ago in South Africa (where my dad and all his side come from), my great-something grandmother didn't want to lose her name, so combined it with her husband's and added a hyphen in between. There's only three of us on the earth.
I used to not show up on a Google search, but now I do as one of the aliases of some Mexican guy who spent the last ten years in prison for raping a 14-year old. No way he could have come up with that name by accident, and he lives a few miles from my parents.
Not tobacco related, just kind of creepy.

pipestud · Sep 1, 2013

I just Googled myself and found out that I am a high school football coach in Oregon, an author in the United Kingdom, a sales manager, a marketing director, an owner of a store called "Gidget's Gadgets, etc. I never realised how diverse I am.
Pipestud

numbersix · Sep 1, 2013

That is kinda creepy.
My name is also a bit unique. A researcher from Germany (my last name is of German origin) figured out that there's only about 2,000 of us in the world.

guhrillastile · Sep 1, 2013

Years ago I went so far as to actually try and make contact with the folks sharing my name. I wrote to all of them. Email. Conventional mail where applicable too. Wanted to see if we could start an exclusive club...only two responses and they had no sense of humor but did respond.. I'm still bummed about it. But I also still giggle when I think of getting a letter addressed to them from the sender having the same name.
Has to be some philosophical paradox about this. Having fun laughing at basically an inside joke...with myself...based on the joke I sent to others with same name. Hmm gonna now be pondering that today while at work I'm sure.

ssjones · Sep 1, 2013

You may have noticed that I'm a white guy... Colleagues at work were recently teasing me about my lack of Facebook, etc. participation (I have a little used page). I told them to google my name and it will only show black gentleman, and a lot of college professors. My picture is not on my Facebook page and last year I was puzzled by all the friend requests from black women. Now, I know why. I might be the last white "Alvin"....

ghost · Sep 1, 2013

I share a name with a well known Pastor in the States. I got off easy. I always said as long as I never share the same name with a serial killer, or the President, I'll be happy.

peckinpahhombre · Sep 1, 2013

Yeesh, I just googled myself and the first 6 links were me coupled with a photo of me - I hate that. Wish you hadn't mentioned it.

bullbriar · Sep 1, 2013

I come up as a few people beside myself...a Navy Seal/Astronaught and a pornstar are the most prominent!

lordnoble · Sep 1, 2013

I'm a HS Music Director, a journalist for the Des Moines Register, a college Lacrosse player, a pastor, a deceased guitarist, and a few others I can't remember. Apparently my name is common enough to have several of "me" around.
-Jason

yohanan · Sep 1, 2013

I have done a google search on my full name, and it is still the same as it was a few years ago. I'm still a nobody, and sometimes that can be a good thing. : puffy

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dread · Sep 1, 2013

There are 2 other high profile people with my name and I google first among them these days. It is annoying, actually. Some days I just don't want people in my business.

captainsousie · Sep 1, 2013

There are a lot of me and when my full name is "googled" in quotes, I find that I'm dead. Not a thing comes up specifically on me except for where my parents live. I suppose I am glad of that.

pstlpkr · Sep 1, 2013

Apparently I'm a

Conservative, Purchasing Manager, BA, MBA, USMC, Mustachioed Chili-Head, Grower of Super Hots.

Not counting the paid advertisement, I actually have the top three of the top four places. :D
Number four is some guy in some place called Maine.

ejames · Sep 1, 2013

I found my obituary-three of them!

simnettpratt · Sep 1, 2013

Yeah, sorry everyone. I came up for a little while when baron had pics of the D/FW guys meeting at Up In Smoke in Dallas online, but then went back into appreciated anonymity. I'm not too happy to be an incarcerated child molesting rapist that lives ten miles from my parents, especially when my name's as unique as it is.
The dude's real name is Serafin Martinez Flores; why the hell he picked my very Caucasian name is beyond me, but he learned to spell it and got the hyphen right and everything, and I have no idea how he got it. Creepy.
Peck, I'm sorry bro, but I tried my name after Googling yours and coming up with your photo and bio! Times they are a-changin'.
A security company just tried sending a unique website link through a private email to see which companies would click on it. Unsurprisingly, Google, Twitter and Facebook all clicked on the link. Yahoo email just overhauled their service and, if you read the fine print, say very specifically they ARE going to read (electronically, ie scan) all your emails, which of course includes all the emails folks send you, who may not even use Yahoo.
Just understand nothing you do online is private. I worry for the next generation, who seem to freely take that as normal and acceptable.
Sorry again, back to posts about smoking.
PS So if you Google 'mustachioed chili head', do you get a picture of Lawrence?

puffy · Sep 1, 2013

This turned out to be pretty neat.It seems That I'm also the pastor of a church in another state.

pstlpkr · Sep 1, 2013

PS So if you Google 'mustachioed chili head', do you get a picture of Lawrence?

:rofl:
Four paid advertisements, then number 5 takes you to my Twitter Profile. (With Picture.)

: puffy

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simnettpratt · Sep 1, 2013

Holy Crap you're not kidding! I use the search engine duckduckgo more than Google, because your searches are encrypted (you even get the https wiki, which is cool), and look at this screen shot! See my search up top, then look at the first link!

pstlpkr · Sep 1, 2013

:rofl:
Would I lie to you.....?
Don't answer that... :D

wnghanglow · Sep 1, 2013

I get some high school kid on Facebook who draws anime, some stoner on twitter, and someone charged with drug parafanila before I was born. I am listed in the second page of google but it's an old address, no photo or anything else listed.

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