Did you ever "google" your name?

mike65 · 18-09-2002 10:52pm #1

I just did, my real one that is complete with " " and got 13500 references back!

Common as muck me...!

Mike.

Terminator · 18-09-2002 10:54pm

Compared to me you're the Dalai Lama : I got 449,000 matches

mike65 · 18-09-2002 10:56pm

Ah, John Smith I presume!

Mike.

Lenny · 18-09-2002 11:05pm

Many a time.

daveirl · 18-09-2002 11:39pm

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DiscoStu · 18-09-2002 11:49pm

apparently im a computer science postgrad in trinity. odd because thats what i plan on doing. freaky

Makaveli · 19-09-2002 12:12am

65,200 results.
Apparently, I'm a professor in a university in Utah.
I also have a jazz quintet named after me.
Actually, a lot of lecturers/professors share my name.
LOL, there's even an award named after me.

sixpack's little hat · 19-09-2002 1:19am

only 3 and they're all me

Monty - the one and only · 19-09-2002 2:33am

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,010,000.

meglome · 19-09-2002 3:34am

just 2 and both me

the joys of a rare Irish surname

jd · 19-09-2002 5:41am

7500+ matches..I share my name with a well known journalist..
My poor father shares his name with a gay porn actor...

BuffyBot · 19-09-2002 7:06am

6190 matches.

UCD MSc student <koff!>
A public prosecuter in Delaware <I want my own TV series!>
The author of a book on Michael Collins
And my name appears in an article about 7 people arrested at a U2 gig!

Hmmmm

DMC · 19-09-2002 7:43am

about 3,970...

First 4 refs are all me, but apparently, I share my name with.....

A superbike racer in England, a book editor in the University of Wollongong, a doctor in Clonakility, and someone in Rialto Motors in Dublin.

lynchie · 19-09-2002 8:21am

310,000 results... not bad

I share my name with a Massachussets Senator, a singer from New York and a Seargeant in the US Army, oh and a vice president at Raytheon Aircraft!

Beruthiel · 19-09-2002 8:29am

Results 1 - 10 of about 31,100.

I was married to a superintendent of the new US mint during the US civil war

I teach irish dancing in Auckland

around 1910 I was married to a man who would seem to be one of the more significant western writer in the US

Borzoi · 19-09-2002 8:39am

Using the short version of my first name, which I use mostly, 135 results and I'm 2 and 5.

But no 1 is a US DIY suppliers, no 2 , is an Aussie Surfing Memorial Carnival - which I have to investigate.

Using long first name, 1 in 3 - and none are me!

DapperGent · 19-09-2002 8:49am

The first 2 of 172 were me.

All the others were weirdos.

First match was my old college website. It's the trashiest website in trash town. What am I still doing with that userspace? I can still login and everything. Weirdos.

seamus · 19-09-2002 9:07am

615 - none me

Used Google.ie for more personalized results. Plus my name is very Irish anyway.

Turned up pages on:

A Longford Hurler,
A very active member of iiu.taint.org in 2000,
Some guy in UL who has written a *lot* of papers about computers

Funny, considering I'm a member of IIU now, and do computer science. (I also played hurley when I was wee, but who didn't?)

frea · 19-09-2002 9:07am

My, dont we have a lot of ego surfers here...

I got 1,650 replys... None of them me... Boo hoo.

BabyEater · 19-09-2002 9:16am

I got 1 and it is talking about place names . I have an unusual first name

LoBo · 19-09-2002 9:23am

done it before:

My exact name matches include: director of the European Commission representation in Ireland, and a very young poet (http://www.iol.ie/~batespd/Birds/cool.htm first swan poem

)

Colm

The Corinthian · 19-09-2002 9:27am

My first name brings up 2,990 results. I'm the first four.

My first and surnames, as an exact match, bring up 97 results. All are me.

So I'm famous in my own lunchtime it seems...

Bard · 19-09-2002 9:53am

I get about 2,500 results for "Niall O'Keeffe", the first two hits being to my own site (which I must finish off, really)...

The Niall O'Keeffe who works for DangerHere looks so much like me, it's feckin freaky!

Manach · 19-09-2002 11:35am

111 results, and
1 VC winner .
1 Car dealer ship
1 dance school.
1 page referring to myself.

stormkeeper · 19-09-2002 11:40am

I get about 55 hits, and I share my name with a senior mechanical engineer studying in university, a town (surname), a captain of a volleyball team (i think), a civilisation pbem player, a class h racing driver and a senior manager of a biscuit company

i seem to have a good few hits returning on aussie pages too lol

GoneShootin · 19-09-2002 12:17pm

Notre Dame Philosophy Faculty
... Michael Rea Associate Professor of Philosophy Mailing Address: Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame 100 Malloy Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 Phone:(574 ...
www.nd.edu/~ndphilo/faculty/mre.htm - 5k - 18 Sep 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

Michael Rea
Michael Rea, Ph.D. Professor Ph.D., 1979. University of Indiana.
Research Interests. In mammals, the biological clock that drives ...
home.bchs.uh.edu/People/Rea/Rea.html - 12k - 18 Sep 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

Michael Rea
... Searching For Michael Rea. Michael was stationed at Cubi Pt. NAS during the years
1965 -1967. He met Rosario and later July 22, 1967 Sydney Rea was born. ...
www.forsakenamerasians.org/rea.htm - 4k - Cached - Similar pages

The Rea Award - For the Short Story
... Michael Rea, who was a passionate reader and collector of short stories as well as
a writer, established the award to encourage writers to maintain loyalty to ...
Description: Awarded by the Dungannon Foundation for excellence in the short story form. Includes current and previous...
Category: Arts > Literature > Short Stories > Contemporary
www.reaaward.org/ - 4k - Cached - Similar pages

and 192,000 other links

po0k · 19-09-2002 12:27pm

Results 1 - 10 of about 847,000. Search took 0.13 seconds

Director of the Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory
Award winning Resident Artist
Bats Left, Throws Right
A PROPHET IN OUR OWN TIME - DR. JOHN COLEMAN
John A. Coleman, SJ Charles Casassa Professor of Social Values, Loyola Marymount University
the man behind the first 'ABCs' BY LOUISE STORY Contributing Reporter
John Coleman was born on Saturday, March 6, 1863, and began his Major League baseball career in 1883 with the Philadelphia Quakers
John Coleman. Ph.D., Toronto Organization: Department of Mathematics and Statistics Queen's University at Kingston Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6

tman · 19-09-2002 12:49pm

3,820 matches... none if i put my name in quotation marks tho:(

deco · 19-09-2002 1:11pm

I seem to write for the Sunday Times as well as producing a surf alogrithim....

TacT · 19-09-2002 1:57pm

2,840,000

po0k · 19-09-2002 2:33pm

Joe Soap got me "Results 1 - 10 of about 166,000"

Mossy Monk · 19-09-2002 2:34pm

3 results

1 about the Amstel Shield
another about GCSE's
and finally one from the Ulster Gazette News

Elmo · 19-09-2002 3:04pm

a miner, a captain of a football team, a civil servent and a treasure of a golf club.

No Mention of me. I dont have a very common name. Most are from Ireland except for the miner.

Sposs · 19-09-2002 3:09pm

1 results

Some guy who works for the Wicklow employment board.

How Exciting!!!! :rolleyes:

richindub2 · 19-09-2002 3:10pm

Results 1 - 10 of about 169,000

Results 1 - 10 of about 18,600 if i include middle names...still rather a lot though

Pimp Ninja · 19-09-2002 3:11pm

Only twice.. and only one of em is meh.. room101.org :-)

Gonna check out the other one now...

some sort of family tree of some couple in Canada.. no idea .. nobody else I know in there.. maybe its made up...

Thanx 4 The Fish · 19-09-2002 3:31pm

Only about 220 results for my name.

Insolvency company, alot about L. Ron's son and a guy who flew in the WWII. Tally Record: 6.5 confirmed and one probable.

Ciaran · 19-09-2002 5:56pm

12 different ones, 9 were me. One was a player for the Kilmurry under 13 football team who beat Ballygawley 4-0 in the Under-13 Connacht Cup! One was some English guy in a fantasy football competition.

The Gopher · 19-09-2002 6:03pm

I did and while most of it is inconclusive,mainly stuff matching my first name with the surname somewhere down the page,I did once find an old pic of me and a friend at the new students opening day of a secondary school back when i was 12:D My hair was really high cos Id been touching one of those metal balls with the electirc in them:D

mike65 · 19-09-2002 6:16pm

did and while most of it is inconclusive,mainly stuff matching my first name with the surname somewhere down the page

To get accurate results you need to use "quote marks".

My own serach threw up a musician, a performance artist,
a realtion of the guy who discovered Tutankhamun, a seller of Bridal wear in Essex, someone who has died and had a scholarship
named in thier memory, a reverend in Amarillo, an actor from Return of the jedi, a composition theorist (eh?), a specialist tile fitter.

That'll do methinks!

The Gopher · 19-09-2002 6:25pm

Ive been looking on that school website and it seems the pics from the open day have been removed:((they were there last year) I wouldnt have minded printing out some bad pictures of my friends.:D Ah well..........

Just thought Ill do searches of some of my friends names,as well as things related to the school,and maybe Ill find the Google cache page with it on it.Am i right in thinking that every single page ever tracebale on google is cached for ever?I know that oif a page is unavailable you can view it with the cache function but does this disappear if the original site doesnt make a comeback?

Acidflash · 19-09-2002 6:35pm

10,100 results

Only found 1 person with the same name, a 45-year-old caretaker.The rest were just matches for my first name. That's what i get for having an unusual second name

sceptre · 19-09-2002 7:40pm

About 25000 results

I come up twice in the first twenty for what it's worth.

Put my name in apostrophes and it's only 617

Add a +limerick and it's only 110

I'm too easy to find (and my name is as common as muck ffs)

Bah, before I'd call my child "seamus":mad: Damn my parents for being diddly-eye types. The amount of schtick my sister and I took for being named after the McSpuds on Bosco!

daveJAM · 19-09-2002 8:08pm

1,250,000

Apparantly, I'm popular with players and audiences.
I'm have my own band named after me.
I'm in the who's who section on the ESPN website.
I'm telling people that China's neighbours will be worried.
I lecture in UCC, University of Illinois and I have a building named after me in UCLA.
I also provide free rides???

Neil3030 · 19-09-2002 9:30pm

Woah!
Results 1 - 10 of about 609,000
I didn't know so many people were called "Hardcore Porn"
Thought i was the only one.

Seriously thought,
Results 1 - 4 of 4

Appearently i'm on the Nathan Hale Lacrosse Team Roster 2002

"29 Ryan-Neil Dundon 10 Midfield 5' 7" 145 "

Ok leave out the Ryan and increase that person by about 8 inches and 15 pounds and its a direct match!

oeNeo · 19-09-2002 9:40pm

I don't believe it... 1 result. Yes, one result!!

http://www.google.ie/search?q=%22Eoin+McCrann%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=

That sucks

phreak · 19-09-2002 10:10pm

mines a very rare name

78 matches, a few about me, but mainly about a cousin of mine who is quite well known

CuLT · 19-09-2002 10:17pm

I am a Paralypmic world champion in sailing, ( who notably won a close race with a vessel called "Ireland")

I am a specialist in family law,
I wrote a letter to the pope at some stage,
I did original research into the practice of "cracking concrete" :P.

Thats it tho, not a single reference to me, and most of its all about the paralympic guy, theres like 25,000 listings.

the only reference to myself i have ever found is if i search for "Cultellus" and the third ref is a pre-vbulletin snippet from my profile which no longer exists :P.

As you can imagine, CuLT brings up about a quarter of a million results, with "CuLT"+Ireland getting 95,000.