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Geek Culture / whta do you get when you google yourself?

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Omega gamer 89
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I just thought this would be fun to discuss. When I google my full name, (First, middle, last, even the "IV" because I'm the fourth generation of my name) I get about 235,000 results.
Google your full name and see what you find.
Its actaully a really good idea to do this because:
1. Employers almost ALWAYS do a google search on you when you apply for a job.
2. This way, you can find anything that might be damaging your reputaion (A stupid post on a blog, an embarassing picture of you, ecdt...) and try and remove it.
3. It helps you learn about your family history.
4. Its always god for a laugh!
First person to get over a million results when googling their FULL name wins a cookie!
(Be sure to google your FULL name. First, middle, last, and anything else, like the "IV" in my name.)

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El Goorf
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Posted: 28th May 2008 18:03
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I got loads of clones of the TGC collectatron review, which was Jrowe's and mine alienware compo entry in 2004.

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All my base are not belong to anyone.
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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 28th May 2008 18:05
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Apart from the annoying Golfer with my name, its mostly me. Its got my 'CV' site, TMJ and my Drupal.org profile.

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Omega gamer 89
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Posted: 28th May 2008 18:10
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How many results are you guys getting? Remember: first one to get a million results with their FULL name gets a cookie, and/or bragging rights for being most famous.

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 28th May 2008 18:13
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I get all my guitar playing stuff. Only about 522 results though, and a few of them aren't about me I don't think.

Don't you just hate that Zotoaster guy?
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5Louiz
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Posted: 28th May 2008 18:17 Edited at: 28th May 2008 18:30
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Nothing. I paid Google to erase every evidence of my activities.

Edit:

But, seriously, I do not get many results. I use only nicknames on the internet, and I post under a different nick on every site I registered. My actual name is not close to being exclusive, and there are many famous people who have a name that is similar to mine.

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Alsan
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Posted: 28th May 2008 18:19
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1300 results, if I put the name in brackets only 53.

I know only one person who has the exact same name as me (seems to be a relative), thus all the results are either about me or about him. First one about me, though. ^^

All the results are good, I don't think they'll damage my reputation.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 28th May 2008 18:25
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-I get Bryn Landy and Bryn Mawr (whoever the hell they are)

-Images I get a man standing by a car, a guy with a goofy grin and pictures of baseball cards.

Without my middle name:

-My Amazon Profile...or at least I'd assume it's mine, except it's a Bryn Price from Brighton.
-A review on Amazon written by the above Bryn Price
-Bryn Terfel, the Opera Singer

In images:

-Bryn Terfel
-Baseball Cards
-My Avatar on The Great Games Experiment Website

Joy of the holy google!


Results: 443,000

"Experience never provides its judgments with true or strict universality; but only (through induction) with assumed and comparative universality." - Immanuel Kant
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El Goorf
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Posted: 28th May 2008 18:44
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350 results

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All my base are not belong to anyone.
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Insert Name Here
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Posted: 28th May 2008 19:29
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For Alexander Montgomery() Jones:
383,000 results.
First image is this:


...That's kinda disappointing.

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Omega gamer 89
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Posted: 28th May 2008 19:34
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lol, just did the image search. Apparently I'm the coach of the Pheonix suns!

http://www.jamd.com/search?assettype=g&assetid=2058990&text=John++Wetzel

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Silvester
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Posted: 28th May 2008 21:54
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I'm getting nothing at all... Intresting.
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Insert Name Here
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Posted: 28th May 2008 22:01
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Of course, a search for simply 'Alex Jones' brings the awesome...
http://www.infowars.com/

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SunnyKatt
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Sweet! I just found a cool korean website that showcases a game of mine! (A little, couple day project game of mine..)

ZEKEGAMES FORUMS-GOOGLE "Zekegames"
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=115938&b=20
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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 28th May 2008 22:53
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I get absolutely nothing on me, my real name is non-existent on the web, other than my private facebook page .


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AaronG
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Posted: 29th May 2008 00:45
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I get 604,000 results...most are either web design, college profiles, even an aaronglass.com glass company.

Images...I get greenery, some random men, some very odd art, and a naked african woman, lol.


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Negrul1
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Posted: 29th May 2008 02:34 Edited at: 29th May 2008 02:40
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180000 for Neil Mark Weaving. Including Mark Thompson, who did weaving, Mark O'Neil, Neil Gaiman and Hugo Weaving. Images: musical stuff (Neil Young) and a photo of cricket by Neil Weavers!

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tha_rami
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Posted: 29th May 2008 02:52 Edited at: 29th May 2008 02:54
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I'm afraid Rami Ebrahim Mahmoud Hanafy Ismail Mansour Ali Freer doesn't return that much, only 9. No images too.

Googling
Quote: "tha_rami OR tha.rami OR tharami OR "Rami Ismail""

returns 4.260 results. Not even close!

"Rami Ismail", which is my normal name and also the name most people and instances know me by, returns about 600.000 pages, and the first image is the header of my website. The second image is the box art for Evochron Renegades, which I made.


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SunnyKatt
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Posted: 29th May 2008 04:09
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Quote: "Rami Ebrahim Mahmoud Hanafy Ismail Mansour Ali Freer"


Holy crap! Awesome name... my wimpy 3 word name doesn't stand a chance.

ZEKEGAMES FORUMS-GOOGLE "Zekegames"
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=115938&b=20
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Jeff Miller
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Posted: 29th May 2008 04:42
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the_rami: having 6 components to your name must certainly be challenging when filling out certain applications. However, the fellow who wrote the song "Granada" was stuck with 17: Ángel Agustín María Carlos Fausto Mariano Alfonso del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Lara y Aguirre del Pino.

I don't find anything on point when searching my full name. I used my full name only once in my life, about 30 years ago when being sworn in to admission of the bar of the US Supreme Court. My dad had just died, and my middle name was his first name, so I flinched for a week or so and used it out of respect. My shortened name, as used in the forum, brings up tons of people who aren't me, including a contemporary who was killed at the infamous Kent State massacre.
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coolgames
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Posted: 29th May 2008 05:46
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I got 1,970,000 results for my full name!
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tha_rami
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Posted: 29th May 2008 12:53
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Having 6 components is actually quite fun. You can startle any officials with it.

"Rami Ismail, isn't it?"
"Well, no, you're missing my middle names?"
"Then, what are your middle names?"
"Ebrahim Mahmoud Hanafy"
"Rami Ebrahim Mahmoud Hanafy Ismail?"
"Yes, but now you're missing the names that come after Ismail"
"Oh, really?"
"Yes. Mansour Ali Freer."
"Jeez."

In order, these are the name of my father, grandfather, his father, his father, his father and his father. Although most of them are Egyptian, I have reason to believe that due to the colonial history of Egypt, Freer is actually a simplified version of "Frere", which is a French name.


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Dazzag
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Quote: "I got 1,970,000 results for my full name!"
I take it that you are searching with double quotes around your full name? Otherwise anyone called John, for example, would have loads of results even if their surname is Furnamfurqahnorrismortimer

Personally I get 7800 results compared to half a million when I use quotes around it. It's annoying as most of these people are far more successful or interesting than me. Even the people who work as programmers. Rats...

Cheers

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Plystire
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Posted: 29th May 2008 15:35
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Without quotes, I get 9,690.

With quotes: 0


My full name does not exist on the internet. I am quite careful about that.

However, searching "Plystire" returned pretty every site I've posted on in the last 8 or so years.


The one and only,


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Venge
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Posted: 29th May 2008 15:45
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My full name gets around 9,400, with quotes gets 0.

But apparently there is a place called "Venge Vineyards." Hmmm...

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Dared1111
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Quote: "Results 1 - 10 of about 945,000 for David Joshua Smith."



Where can I get the codes. I know how to build it with codes. GET IT. I HOPE U UNDERSTAND. DUHH
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Posted: 29th May 2008 16:57 Edited at: 29th May 2008 17:10
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Oooh, let's try 'Insert Name Here'


Results 1 - 10 of about 741,000 for "Insert Name Here"

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 29th May 2008 17:24
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If people are doing forum names:

Seppuku Arts- 286,000
Top of the list is my website
A Profile of Mine
My Old website forums
TGC Threads
-> Images: A few suicidal images and my avatars

Seppuku- 730,000
Wikipedia entry on Seppuku
Tatto Parlour
Aikido
Definitions of Seppuku
-> Images: An Old Man trying to demonstrate Seppuku, various drawings of people committing seppuku and PhysX Aegia

"Experience never provides its judgments with true or strict universality; but only (through induction) with assumed and comparative universality." - Immanuel Kant
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Omega gamer 89
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@ Coolgames:
Congratulations! You are the first to get over 1,000,000! I was out of free cookies so I hope a carrot will do instaed!

...but I am the ferret king!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! tremble before my ferret minions!

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Quote: "Images: An Old Man trying to demonstrate Seppuku, various drawings of people committing seppuku and PhysX Aegia
"



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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 29th May 2008 18:07
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It seems fairly obvious that Google prefer Newton above all.

"Experience never provides its judgments with true or strict universality; but only (through induction) with assumed and comparative universality." - Immanuel Kant
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428,000 for my name.


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not much comes up for me like 150,000 results

if i search my dad the he comes up for his job and the movies he was in(small parts)

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Agent Dink
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3070 for me. Most aren't me though.

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Quote: "Results 1 - 10 of about 945,000 for David Joshua Smith"
On Google.com I get almost 4 million for that. But with double quotes (ie. the exact name and not every page that has david, joshua, and smith all on it at the same time) I get 6 results. Did you make an indie film in 2007 by any chance?...

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Peter H
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Posted: 29th May 2008 20:45 Edited at: 29th May 2008 20:46
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first link
World Series of Poker Star - Phil Hellmuth


first picture


^neither are me^


if i leave out my middle name then the first 2 links are me! (and the first picture is from one of my old games)

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coolgames
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Quote: "I take it that you are searching with double quotes around your full name? Otherwise anyone called John, for example, would have loads of results even if their surname is Furnamfurqahnorrismortimer"


Er... No. I did it without quotes. If I do my full name with quotes, I get nothing.
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I've got a Unique Name of "Michael Mihalyfi", But there are 4 people related to me with the same name in this country, (Gets Confusing)

Google Web Results
1. Page on my OfficeLive Site
2. About my Cousan, (has Same name as me)
3. Post by me on the this Forum

Then it goes to other people, (Some are still my relatives with the same name, But in other countries), But not bad to get the 1st spot

As for an Image Search, My Thumble, (Silent Bob) comes in at number 7, My cousan beet me getting the number 2 spot

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Jeku
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There's a gay porn star with my full name. Nuff said.


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Hehehe......No results....

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22Jamie%20Steven%20MacDonald%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw

..and yes, that is my name, sadly...make any references to a certain fast food restaurant chain and I'll spam Google with evil stuff on you name......

I have returned, after 28 days of exile, fear me!
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Pixelator
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2,290,000 results

Your signature has been erased by a mod. Reduce the size!
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Omega gamer 89
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Youch. I don't know who I feel more sorry for, Jeku or coffee grunt.

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516 results, most of them are about table tenis players, marathon runners or school sites. But there were also more interesting like 3 people murdered in Katyń with the same last name as me and... a site about a music CD with my dad in credits(as "voice" - it could be singing (but I doubt it) or just saying something). With quotes there weren't any results.
Without my second name the 1st website was a link to my old school's website with my results in nationwide language contests...

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Posted: 30th May 2008 18:04
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Quote: "With quotes: 0


My full name does not exist on the internet. I am quite careful about that."


Same here. Without 105,000.


I'm Pro grammer.
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5867Dude
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LOL I get 52,000 without quotes!
@coolgames
Heres a cookie (Its a very big one!)

EDIT:
Quote: "4. Its always god for a laugh!"

LOL


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Venge
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Posted: 30th May 2008 22:28 Edited at: 30th May 2008 22:29
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Quote: "Heres a cookie (Its a very big one!)"

LOL

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Omega gamer 89
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What's so lol about Venge's post? It's a big cookie, so what? I don't get why you highlighted "heres" and "Its"

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5867Dude
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I don't get it either. If its some stupid grammer thing I don't really care!


Was cool kid
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It's because of the irony involved ofcourse, not that venge is being grammar nazi.

I get 1.860 with quotes and 155.000 without.

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0.860 of a result? Is that, like... If your name was Bob Smith you got Bob Smi?

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