Have You Ever Googled Yourself?

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SifuPhil

R.I.P. With Us In Spirit Only
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Pennsylvania, USA
Here's a fun little time-waster: Google yourself.

It's simple, quick, painless and often surprising. Just go to the Google search engine, type in your full name and see what happens.

I got over 2,600 mentions, but a lot of those are a bit ... strange ... :p

If you look at the related "Images" it gets even better - of the hundreds of images only a few are really related to me - the others are decidedly odd, often in a humorous way.
 

Aw, all those pesky outstanding warrants...

Okay seriously let me take a look...

Nothing except random cities I lived in. The image thing is weird...maybe because my first name goes both ways. Most of the first image page were men. Then Pharrell and an Arby's picture...think the images go totally random really.
 
fureverywhere said:
Aw, all those pesky outstanding warrants...
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LOL!

...think the images go totally random really.
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I do too. I get a few of me - often from those I post here on SF - then a few of my books on Amazon, but the the great god Google seems to have a hissy fit at that point and spews out totally random stuff.

But it's amusing to me - in a strange way. :eek:
 
I might have talked about this on here on another thread. There are 5 people with my first and last name that I've been able to locate. 2 are artists and one rescues dogs. All appear to be a little younger than I am. On google images their photos come up but only one of mine. The one that comes up is from several years ago and I used it on Myspace. I guess Facebook doesn't come up as I have it set to private and I marked NO, I don't want it on any search engines. I am not so sure the photos are all random because if you click on them and are able to find out more about them, sometimes they were posted by someone of your name or something like that. A lot comes up on google and google images of a product that has my last name on it.

A couple times I've paid $20 or $30 for a years subscription on one of those sites that promises to track down people for you and give you their personal business. I've been able to find out if my husband's younger brother is still alive and other things that I was wondering about. I did learn not to believe everything on there though as one of the sites had my house down as being worth $650,000 and if that were true we would have sold it long ago. It's not anywhere near that amount. So we had a good laugh over that. They did list my family members, places I've lived and other nosy things. There isn't much privacy around anymore. Anyway, I think it's tons of fun to do google searches on myself, others I know or just random things. Once it wasn't so much fun though, someone with my young grand-daughter's name (and it's an usual old fashion name) had died and their grave stone from many years ago came up. Didn't like seeing that.
 
I put my name in nothing came up relating to me ,nine professional ladies showed up with the same first and surname but different middle names ,plus one convicted criminal in US .Maybe because I've never joined FB or any site where I've used my full /actual name. And my police clearance ( that was required for working ) always said I had no convictions ,so that's a bit of relief :playful: I not on Australia's most wanted list :playful:
 
I just ran it. No narrative information. Under "Images", amidst a lot of Nazi officers :laugh: there was one picture of my grandson in his lab coat. So I'll post him and give him a laugh.
 
Linda, my apologies for re-imagining your thread. I didn't do a search as I should have. Bad Phil. :(

Obituaries and Nazis - wow. I consider myself lucky - all I get are male porn stars from the '70's with big mustaches. :eek:
 
Yes, Phil, I have and I can be found. I had one bad experience, (no injuries or accident), as a pilot and it has it on the net with 'my' name. I could not believe such an insignificant event could be found.
 
SifuPhil said:
Linda, my apologies for re-imagining your thread. I didn't do a search as I should have. Bad Phil. :(

Obituaries and Nazis - wow. I consider myself lucky - all I get are male porn stars from the '70's with big mustaches. :eek:
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Phil, I don't understand what you mean. This isn't my thread, It's yours. How did you "re-imaginging my thread? Gosh, I don't even know what that means. Or are you being sarcastic because I got off track? Or am I not understanding because our damn coffee pot went out this morning and my husband has to take us 45 miles to the city to buy a new coffee pot and stop at Starbucks. Otherwise I might get crabby. :)
 
Linda said:
Phil, I don't understand what you mean. This isn't my thread, It's yours. How did you "re-imaginging my thread? Gosh, I don't even know what that means. Or are you being sarcastic because I got off track? Or am I not understanding because our damn coffee pot went out this morning and my husband has to take us 45 miles to the city to buy a new coffee pot and stop at Starbucks. Otherwise I might get crabby. :)
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LOL - you poor people! My condolences on the broken coffee pot - I know exactly what that feels like! When that happened to me I rigged the coffee filter over a hair-dryer running on the "HIGH" setting and poured water slowly through the filter - it ended up being a bit of a disaster, with sparks flying and half the street losing power. :(

What I meant by "re-imagining" was that you said you had posted a similar thread already. I should have done a search here and found it, but I did not search and started a similar thread on Googling yourself. It's not a "good" practice to repeat thread topics - it makes a forum bloated - so I apologized to you for repeating your thread topic and now have to apologize to SeaBreeze for making more work for her.
 
A little off-track, but a few years ago someone on Facebook posted a site that you put your name in and it told you how many people in the US had your exact name. I was a little suspicious and put in the name "Pansy Swastika". Shortly afterward, I started getting emails addressed to "Pansy". Apparently, it was just a ploy to get your name.

("Pansy Swastika" was the name my grandmother used when none of us kids would admit to doing something, i.e.: "All right, who broke this lamp?" Dead silence. "Well, it must have been Pansy Swastika, then." "If nobody picks up these toys, I'm boxing them up and sending them to Pansy Swastika!" "Pansy Swastika would have been delighted to eat this cauliflower." Ol' Pansy was the invisible seventh sister who was alternately in perpetual trouble or was often perfect.)
 
Yes many times. My published works are listed and information
about my last places I worked. But others with my name appear too
and they have better jobs and maybe better looking!
No pictures.

If you are on Facebookor social media sites your name will
appear. Mine did when I belonged.
 
SifuPhil said:
LOL - you poor people! My condolences on the broken coffee pot - I know exactly what that feels like! When that happened to me I rigged the coffee filter over a hair-dryer running on the "HIGH" setting and poured water slowly through the filter - it ended up being a bit of a disaster, with sparks flying and half the street losing power. :(

What I meant by "re-imagining" was that you said you had posted a similar thread already. I should have done a search here and found it, but I did not search and started a similar thread on Googling yourself. It's not a "good" practice to repeat thread topics - it makes a forum bloated - so I apologized to you for repeating your thread topic and now have to apologize to SeaBreeze for making more work for her.
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I see what you mean Phil, no I didn't start a thread like that, I don't think. Unfortunately, I often get off topic and that's probably what I was doing somewhere. I just remember telling someone about me googling my name before. :)

I think your coffee story is pretty funny. I'll have to tell my husband about that. We usually make "cowboy coffee" if we are in a bind and it comes out pretty good. Boil grounds in a kettle and then let the grounds settle to the bottom. My husband wouldn't do that this morning as he was trying to rush me so he could get up to see this guy who was selling him a second hand rear end for an old car. We drove 61 miles through pouring rain to get it. Then Walmart didn't have a RED coffee pot like I wanted so I just bought the cheapest one they had for $9.94.
 
Victor said:
Yes many times. My published works are listed and information
about my last places I worked. But others with my name appear too
and they have better jobs and maybe better looking!
No pictures.

If you are on Facebookor social media sites your name will
appear. Mine did when I belonged.
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Victor, can you tell us what sort of published works you have? That sounds interesting. I understand if you wish to keep it private. Also I think Facebook has a place where you can check a box to not put your name or photo on the search engines like google etc.
 
Hey my Uncle LaRue, the one with all the rifles and the dog who ate a cousin...wondered what happened to that old cuss...
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Yeah, it would be a money maker alright. I thought about googling my old high school girlfriends then I remembered they are OLD!
 

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