Erasing myself from google

BrokenArrows

ok a few months ago i realised that google returns far too much information about me than i would like.

If i typed my name into google there were about 4000 results and alot of pages in most of it was about me personally.

Ive been tracking down this stuff and removing it and at the moment the results stand at 1080 search hits. not too bad.

Google still seems to still hold a crap load of info about me cached from Bebo even tho i canceled my account over a year ago.

How much crap does google return about you.

minidazzler

I would think that if I entered my various usernames alot would be returned, but my name doesn't return all that much about me personally, just Facebook, bebo and such. I tend not to use my real name online, except on Facebook and such.

starbelgrade

BrokenArrows wrote: »

How much crap does google return about you.

Zero, it seems. Just tried it.

Hmm.. does that mean that if Google shows no returns, that I may not actually exist?

:eek:

Le King

Attention everybody:

PENIS

That is all.

Rabies

I think with google it cached forever

blow69

BrokenArrows wrote: »

ok a few months ago i realised that google returns far too much information about me than i would like.

If i typed my name into google there were about 4000 results and alot of pages in most of it was about me personally.

Ive been tracking down this stuff and removing it and at the moment the results stand at 1080 search hits. not too bad.

Google still seems to still hold a crap load of info about me cached from Bebo even tho i canceled my account over a year ago.

How much crap does google return about you.

Really?

Rabies

blow69 wrote: »

Really?

Broken Arrows were common in early american indian times.
Loads of articles about it.

Jamiekelly

You can't really erase everything about yourself from the internet. Once you access the internet once or upload a photo then it will always be there and their will always be a record of it being there.

Cypher_sounds

BrokenArrows wrote: »

ok a few months ago i realised that google returns far too much information about me than i would like.

If i typed my name into google there were about 4000 results and alot of pages in most of it was about me personally.

Ive been tracking down this stuff and removing it and at the moment the results stand at 1080 search hits. not too bad.

Google still seems to still hold a crap load of info about me cached from Bebo even tho i canceled my account over a year ago.

How much crap does google return about you.

Why did you have a bebo page if you want to delete stuff now??? whats the big deal anyway about wanting to delete stuff on google about you?

Rabies

Rabies wrote: »

Broken Arrows were common in early american indian times.
Loads of articles about it.

Blame strongbow!

Pdfile

Rabies wrote: »

Broken Arrows were common in early american indian times.
Loads of articles about it.

all i get is micheal jackson refferences.

upandcumming

minidazzler wrote: »

I would think that if I entered my various usernames alot would be returned, but my name doesn't return all that much about me personally, just Facebook, bebo and such. I tend not to use my real name online, except on Facebook and such.

and such.

Rabies

Pdfile wrote: »

all i get is micheal jackson refferences.

http://www.spiritisup.com/brokenarrow.html

Pdfile

Rabies wrote: »

http://www.spiritisup.com/brokenarrow.html

was talking about googling myself but bygod that website reminds me of Age of empires... :eek:

danniemcq

Jamiekelly wrote: »

You can't really erase everything about yourself from the internet. Once you access the internet once or upload a photo then it will always be there and their will always be a record of it being there.

Like the pictures i uploaded of <insert random username here>'s ma

Minstrel27

BrokenArrows wrote: »

If i typed my name into google there were about 4000 results and alot of pages in most of it was about me personally.

Are you Jesus?

A google search for me shows a lot of things but only one page that I can find that is about me. A Flickr account that I forgot existed

upmeath

I've a few famous namesakes (an English sprinter, an American politician and an American professor in LGBT studies) so they take most of the flak for me. The only direct hit for me in the first five pages of returns on google is for a twitter account I don't use. Thanks google

Dravokivich

Can only find stuff about me by my username... kinda unique as I completely made it up...

... my actual name isn't too unique. would have to go through a ton of results and still wouldn't find anything about me.

Nothing personal comes up on Google for me.. I've had the same nickname since I was 7 and i've used it for facebook etc.

My boards.ie name does show up on Google though.

Rabies

My name comes up if I do a search and include my current city.
Facebook, group pages etc.
Plus one or two grumpy client that spread ****e about me relating to work across the city... not my fault... i told them their gig was ****. They weren't happy

Dravokivich

^No one likes a critic man :P

Zombienosh

whatever you do don't put google into google.:eek:

Corkladddd!!

AlcoholicA wrote: »

whatever you do don't put google into google.:eek:

I tink the computer explodes when that happens :D:D


Just googled myself and 1 reference on the second page for rugby so ain't too bad!!!! went as far as page 7 before I realised there are people more famous than me with my name! :(

Old Bebo Username *Shudder yields no returns in top 10 pages..

Maybe I'm not as important as I think :D:D

AnonoBoy

My name is John Smith so y'know - try and filter out what's about me and what's not.

G'luck to you.

Rabies

Dravokivich wrote: »

^No one likes a critic man :P

It was either them or me

Trashbat

upmeath wrote: »

I've a few famous namesakes (an English sprinter, an American politician and an American professor in LGBT studies) so they take most of the flak for me. The only direct hit for me in the first five pages of returns on google is for a twitter account I don't use. Thanks google

Is your name Linford Christie?

That'd be awesome!


Nowadays Googling myself just gives social networking and a few old news articles from my student days.

I have one namesake who is a civil servant, but he only gets on page 2.

Terry

Deleted User wrote: »

Nothing personal comes up on Google for me.. I've had the same nickname since I was 7 and i've used it for facebook etc.

My boards.ie name does show up on Google though.

http://www.google.ie/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enIE361IE367&q=site%3aboards.ie+Ads+by+Google


There's very little on me, apart from my time playing football for Westmeath.

wes

Well luckily my name is pretty common, and its actually pretty hard to find info about me.

George Orwell 1982

Does anyone know how long the google cached items stay around for?

Wazdakka

I don't exist on google :cool:

Except linked-in... and I don't mind that

Rabies

George Orwell 1982 wrote: »

Does anyone know how long the google cached items stay around for?

As long as time has been here.

George Orwell 1982

Rabies wrote: »

As long as time has been here.

Thanks, but seriously if the cached item has been removed does it drop off from search results over time?

Apparently I have got two twitter accounts. Neither of which I ever use.

Wazdakka

George Orwell 1982 wrote: »

Thanks, but seriously if the cached item has been removed does it drop off from search results over time?

Google have a monstrous amount of server farms all over the world.
They pride themselves on the fact that they have never deliberately deleted any information.

Not to make you paranoid or anything, but why do you think google gives you all of these "free" services?

They keep, use, distribute, and sell your information.
"Ad's by google"

Everything from your browsing habits, to your searches, your E-mail subjects, who you e-mail, who you bank with, where you go (google maps directions).. You have an entire online portfolio.
Do you have an android phone? because then they have records of where you live, where you spend your time, who your friends are ect ect...

I'm not being one of those tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy nuts here or anything, but most people just don't realise how big of a digital trail they leave behind them when they use the internet.

Wazdakka

Here's a few other sites to check if you exist on the internet

http://www.peekyou.com/ireland
http://pipl.com/
http://www.123people.com/
http://www.peoplesearchlinks.com/International/Ireland/

Warrior011

First two or three pages of results are actually me - for various primary school quizes and junior/ senior squash.

mike65

I've only found two so far both incredibly obscure and revealing no personal info. They won't get me!

smash

4000? Man you need to get a life and get off social networks!

Dermo

I use my nickname everywhere except for work. So if you search for my birth name my linkedin account is top of the results. There are other twitter and facebook accounts in the search results but none of them are mine.

starlit

Wazdakka wrote: »

Here's a few other sites to check if you exist on the internet

http://www.peekyou.com/ireland
http://pipl.com/
http://www.123people.com/
http://www.peoplesearchlinks.com/International/Ireland/

googled myself only found LinkedIn, Bebo and Facebook related account stuff. my bebo profile isn't displayed but the others are.

the first and last links don't show anything up for me. The other two do with my facebook, linkedIn, myspace and tagged accounts (plan to delete them and join twitter!) a wayne account I deleted about a year ago appears in one of the search links above!

biko

http://www.wikihow.com/Ungoogle-Yourself

wetling

Jamiekelly wrote: »

You can't really erase everything about yourself from the internet. Once you access the internet once or upload a photo then it will always be there and their will always be a record of it being there.

NO, thats not how it works, you can delete a photo you have uploaded and it will be gone off everyones computer even if they saved it, not matter what way, same for videos and sound, although I hear you cant delete txt, but you can if its been colorued or different font. btw I work in IT sales so I know my stuff

Absolution

thankfully, I share the same name as a comedian, I cant find anything about me on google.

fungun

ive a unique name and about 10 year ago i was on some geeky Q&A about PC games, where i submitted a question and got a response on their webpage. They are the first things that come up when you google my name.....I would really love to get rid of these

ScumLord

Wazdakka wrote: »

Not to make you paranoid or anything, but why do you think google gives you all of these "free" services?

I don't think you even have the right to that data anymore, google, facebook and the rest are giving you services for your information, they own your internet history. there's nothing paranoid about it their upfront and you agree to it every time you sign up to anything on the internet.

I don't really mind Google doing it, they only care about selling your searching to companies and it's generally a good service. I think people are signing their lives away on facebook though they probably know their users better than they know themselves in some respects.

dvpower

BrokenArrows wrote: »

ok a few months ago i realised that google returns far too much information about me than i would like.

Telling the internet about this problem probably isn't going to help.

George Orwell 1982

I have a very unique name (not George Orwell) so from now on I am only ever using my nickname on the internet. Better to be safe than sorry.

DevilsBreath

I'm all good there's a pub with the same name as me so that's all that really come's up.
There was on3 link on 2nd page to my linkedin but that's it.

Bob the Seducer

I don't have a particularly common name but thanks to a current League of Ireland footballer I get over 110,000 results for it in google. Nothing in the first 30 pages links back to me!

Rabies

George Orwell 1982 wrote: »

Thanks, but seriously if the cached item has been removed does it drop off from search results over time?

I think its kept indefinitely to be honest

George Orwell 1982

Rabies wrote: »

I think its kept indefinitely to be honest

I don't mind google keeping info on me I just don't want certain cached search results showing up forever. Do they drop off eventually if the page is deleted?