Vanity Search

[Bullgrit]

How big a presence does your real name have on the Web? A Google search for my real name brings up a lot of hits, but only 2 instances are actually me -- and they're both 10+ years old. I consider this a good thing, as I really don't want my name (or image) to be all over the Internet.

Do you want your name and image all over the Internet? Do you want to keep your name and image relatively private (off the Internet)? Do you not care one way or another?

Bullgrit

 

[Dorn_the_warrior]

Well, I've done that too. All that comes up for me is my facebook page. It turns out, though, that someone with the same name as me is a D.A. in Mississippi, and another one is a nature photographer and ecologist based in New York City. 2 different people, and I don't really have that common of a name. Crazy.

 

[freyar]

My first + last name combo is pretty popular (1.6 million links on google), though my first name shows up as a middle name a lot. I'm not first on the list, but I do have 4 of the first 10, including my current home page. Adding my middle initial does a little better -- it moves my stuff up, but it doesn't bump other people entirely off the first page.

Not sure exactly what I think about that. I don't have a huge amount of personal info there, mostly professional, so I do want that to be available.

 

[Wombat]

My problem is having a common-uncommon name.

In America, my name sounds very slightly unusual; in Scotland it is the equivalent of "John Smith". If I Google up my name ... I can't find me amongst all the almost mes...

 

[WhatGravitas]

Uh... Google gives me only a couple of pages... and the first page is all hits. That's what a very, very uncommon name gives me, seemingly.

Cheers, LT.

 

[EricNoah]

Let's see ... six of the first ten results on Google bring up me w/regard to D&D stuff I have participated in, and Facebook. I'm ok with that. It is weird that the #1 result is placeholder page at RPG Planet for a page that hasn't had a home there in 8 years!

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

I have to do the quote thing to get specific matches to my name, otherwise I get ten pages of Tarantino (same first name). Blech.

 

[ProfessorPain]

My print on the web is pretty small. But I don't worry about it. I figure the most employers can learn is I play D&D. If they don't want gamers in their organization, I don't want to be a part of it.

 

[MonkeyDragon]

The first few pages of my name don't turn up anything related to me.

Googling my comic name, however, turns up results that are mostly comic-related through the first few pages, and is the number one search result. That makes me smile big smiles.

 

[Goldmoon]

I am a freaking ghost on the net, just the way I like it.