Famous on the internet?

ARCADIA · Post by **ARCADIA** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:54 am

Have you tried to search you name on the net?

or

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:58 am

My blog, my (always outdated and broken) homepage, old and weird Amazon reviews, posts I did on random blogs and all that...

...and when I do a image search, somehow THIS pops up with my FULL name (including my middle name) under the result thumbnail:

Turns out it was just a picture on a lists from some Illustration Friday submission, but it was a bit creepy for a moment

KindGrind · Post by **KindGrind** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:33 pm

My full name is quite "safe", as I share it with a famous art gallery around here.

A former colleague of mine didn't have such luck though, when students googled her name and found her pic along with the info that she was arrested by the feds for fraud earlier!

EDIT: Typoz.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:02 pm

I'm fairly infamous. But regarding Google, most results are to do with Elixir Strings, which I believe are for guitars. There's also an Elixir rock band, skin care corp, cookies, board game, rapper, RAM and even a car.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:27 pm

My username gets my myspace and lame ole' vampire freaks, which depending on who you are could be considered incriminating. It also shows some GotFrag e-sports stuff and junk from emulation forums and what not.

My real name i share with a little-known rock/blues musician from Canada that pretty much takes up all the main matches.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:05 pm

circuitface wrote:My real name i share with a little-known rock/blues musician from Canada that pretty much takes up all the main matches.

Mathew Good? William Shatner? Alex Trebec?

Stefan_L · Post by **Stefan_L** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:47 pm

If i search "Stefan Lindberg" on Goggle then it's first on page 5 there is a link related to me... but adding "PCB" after my name then all links and all pages Google finds are related to me

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:02 pm

It's fun to search for your full name and see if anybody who shares it is famous for something. Top this:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185164/

Post by **Dave_K.** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:11 pm

Someone tagged my full name in a wordpress blog entry, and suddenly I had a full page worth of google results to someone elses blog, in about 5 different languages. That wordpress tag thing sucks. Google still ranks it above my own blog.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:34 pm

First 5 pages or so are mostly about me, and then it trails off. It's all boring stuff, though. One highlight: a book review I wrote gets quoted in a debate about free will on a forum not unlike this one.

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:46 pm

shoe-sama

kengou · Post by **kengou** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:57 pm

As far as google knows I don't exist. No facebook, no website (well, my blog doesn't come up), nothing at all. It also helps that there's dozens of other people with the same name in the U.S.

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:21 pm

i was a famous architect (not only one)

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:22 pm

Just 1 entry for me.

I publicly registered for a gaming tournament nearby and the list of entries still carries my name.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:13 pm

Super Laydock wrote:Just 1 entry for me.
.

is that not a google whack?

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:37 am

I share the same name as an Irish revolutionary and an early lunar explorer, so any joy in searching my name is quickly dispelled.

kengou · Post by **kengou** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:05 am

Lordstar wrote:
Super Laydock wrote:Just 1 entry for me.
.
is that not a google whack?

Google whack has to be two dictionary words.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:20 am

Usually mine appears on the second or third page of Google. And it's always about the shmups forum. I'm glad there aren't many VOOT fans out there, then.

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:20 am

I'm a fire extinguisher. -.-"

Daedalus · Post by **Daedalus** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:21 am

I have a pretty rare last name. According to Whitepages.com, there are three people in the US with my full name, and one of the other guys lives in Wisconsin too. I hope he doesn't get into any trouble, cause that's what people will find if they google me :-X

Machinehead · Post by **Machinehead** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:08 pm

Google gave me a link to a Facebook page...but it wasn't MY facebook page

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:46 pm

Lordstar wrote:
Super Laydock wrote:Just 1 entry for me.
.
is that not a google whack?

I don't think so.

If searching for my real name, there really is just 1 entry.
My nick/alter ego turns up A LOT more though.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:19 pm

My real name brings up a photographer.

My ID name brings up a shit load of forum threads from here and neo geo.com.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:30 pm

Im 55 and i like keeping salves in missouri!

http://www.okcupid.com/profile?u=LordStar

here is a little snippet

Yes I am married.
Yes we are both in the Lifestyle.
Yes we are both Dominant.
Yes we are both Poly...
Websters defines it as: Polyamorous;

Definition: Pertaining to participation in multiple and simultaneous loving or sexual relationships

NO We do not always share slaves
My slaves are Mine
Her slaves are Hers (lol)

DAMN RIGHT I DONT SHARE MY SLAVES!!! ROTFL

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:39 pm

Lordstar wrote:
http://www.okcupid.com/profile?u=LordStar

He is still "zu haben"
Amazing, go get him

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:52 pm

its a good job i find his life style amusing otherwise i might feel my names been soiled. Im the real lordstar. . . right?

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:57 pm

apparently i was killed in a car accident in tampa january/08

nice

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:10 pm

wow ghost posts!

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:56 pm

^More Ghost posts from me too.

Apparently I'm an artist who died in 2000.

Bootaaay · Post by **Bootaaay** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:09 pm

My real name is shared with some prison governor and a crew member from Speed 2, on searching my username I get about 5 pages of various forum posts i've made and sites i've signed up to...obviousley, things start getting a bit pornographic from that point on