Have you ever Googled yourself?

[buffalo]

Go to Google (or your favorite other SE) and enter your first and last names inside the quotation marks. How many results to you get, and how many of those results are actually you instead of someone else with your same name?

Google shows 44 (12 are me)
Yahoo gives me 29 (8 are me)

[yogesh]

Just tried it and guess what I am quite famous .

Google shows 10,200 results for my name and I checked the first ten pages and out of that 4-5 links were referring to some one else, rest were me , will try this out on yahoo later.

[AffiliateSeeking]

I tried it and 85,600 results where displayed for my name. I don't know how many are mine though as I didn't check, but I know there are at least a few thousand because I have distributed over 100 articles with my name as the author.

[kingjacob]

Yah I just googled my name and every result is talking about me probally because no one else on the planet has my name. Ive also google my username to see if Im the main result with that username and I am. I also found out that according to wikipedia kingjacob is the username of me.

[shakiz26]

lol thats funny because i googled a username i used and found all the old sites i had signed up with which was good for me because i didnt have to find them all thru search, didnt know that you could search your own name

[jason12390]

I have found everything about my last night but nothing on me lol probably cause my grandpa was a 2 star general so he is all over there

[jason12390]

Originally Posted by shakiz26

lol thats funny because i googled a username i used and found all the old sites i had signed up with which was good for me because i didnt have to find them all thru search, didnt know that you could search your own name

Don't know if you remember this but when AOL had "accedently" released that huge doc of all the people's "search tendencies" most of those searches were people searching for their name and oddly enough their SSN

[buffalo]

Originally Posted by jason12390

and oddly enough their SSN

That's a good idea! I just googled my SSN and thankfully, 0 results! That's information that you wouldn't want on the internet! I could see why people would google it to make sure it wasn't posted on a website somewhere.

[jason12390]

Originally Posted by buffalo

That's a good idea! I just googled my SSN and thankfully, 0 results! That's information that you wouldn't want on the internet! I could see why people would google it to make sure it wasn't posted on a website somewhere.

though now your SSN is saved into the google DB

[AffiliateSeeking]

Originally Posted by buffalo

That's a good idea! I just googled my SSN and thankfully, 0 results! That's information that you wouldn't want on the internet! I could see why people would google it to make sure it wasn't posted on a website somewhere.

Yep, that's something you don't really want on other sites, but don't forget that if you type it into Google then you have automatically put it into their stats. Google keeps all the information of what keywords and phrases get typed into their search box, how many times a day each keyword or phrase gets typed in, etc.

Everyone should be safe though as I can't see Google doing anything with them.

[jason12390]

Originally Posted by AffiliateSeeking

Yep, that's something you don't really want on other sites, but don't forget that if you type it into Google then you have automatically put it into their stats. Google keeps all the information of what keywords and phrases get typed into their search box, how many times a day each keyword or phrase gets typed in, etc.

Everyone should be safe though as I can't see Google doing anything with them.

Look what happened with AOL when a piece of that list got leaked I am sure they didn't want to do anything with it. But it still happened cause humans make errors. I think I still have that list somewhere on my computer it was huge and wasnt even a big chunk of the user base.

[AffiliateSeeking]

So true. If something happened to your SSN with Google I am sure it will only be because of human error.

[subodh]

When I searched my name, I got about about 543,000 results in google. It's quite popular name. When I searched for my full name I got about 19 search result in the google.

[alpha]

I have 522 results for my full name.

[chum112]

I have over 10 000 results on my name. But with my last name being very popular a lot of listings aren't me. But then again a few are. So i guess i am famous, even if it is only on a search engine.

[RovingCalypso]

I don't think I wont get alot of results for my actual name (around 20 or so maybe), but my nick gets me, hold your breath, 3,070 results on google. Is that a record or what.

[1mak]

haha,
i have never tried to google for myself so far.

but now i have tried and there are 189.000 results.


the first ones are really about me, i m surprised /: