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Have you ever Googled yourself?

December 19th 2006 15:47
Well, my daughter's feeling better but now I'm the one who's coming down with the flu. I rarely get sick but when I do it's really bad. I just hope I'll be ok before Christmas day. So I'm sure you'll forgive me when I post this short yet intriguing question.....

Have you ever tried Googling yourself? By this I mean have you ever searched for your full name on Google? What about your blog or website url? What have you discovered?

I ask because i recently searched for my full name and it came out on a porn site. Why in the world would they even use my name as a keyword? Bad webmasters, bad!


Tell me what you discover.
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Comment by katyzzz

December 19th 2006 22:27
Hope,

Yes that sound shocking, I have googled myself and have been surprised at how much is there under katyzzz.

There' a recipe somewhere for a soup that is supposed to sweat it out, you'll need plums, when you're better look it up, cook up a quantity and freeze it for when you get sick this way.

In the meantime, hot lemon and honey, and chicken soup, just toss things in the pot and let it cook itself, as long as it's hot and fluidy it will help and if you can, take panadol and bed or rest as much as possible when it peaks.

I know you'll be better for Christmas.

Mrs. M's Love and stuff,

katyzzz

Comment by LaurenD

December 19th 2006 22:31
Good god, yes I have.

And while the real me pops up in second and third place, etc., the number one Google site is a deceased stripper with the same name.

Wow. All my hard work in writing, my teaching, my career and bingo-bango-boom, there it is. Dead. Stripper. Quite existential really.

LaurenD

Comment by Tracy

December 20th 2006 01:31
Hello Hope

Yes I have few times and I was surprised to see my CV website up there...imagine the possibilities, someone needs a writer, they google and find me and read my CV and declare me the most suitable and gifted writer to perfect their paid writing role....woooo hooooo!!

Tracy

Comment by Lilla

December 20th 2006 02:30
Hi Hope,

some really interesting results... my name attracted a few hundred thousand hits in Hungarian as it is now a band, an opera and lots of other things..

My orble name is number one and it seems I also have a rather busy e-bay page too and am quite a good trader...*lol*

Otherwise someone with my married name lived out her entire life : (1878-1973) was married in Pembroke, Ontario in 1916, and lived out their. entire married life together in the city of Sudbury. ...I may go there one day...

and my name lilla created 23,800,000 hits!!! everything from scuba gear to Aboriginal life and French Artists, illustrations and surface design and book reviewers...

AMazing!

I noticed that there is a lot of our orble traffic up there on Google too... making inroads guys... making in roads...

Great Post Hope,

Lilla...



Comment by Homer Joyce

December 20th 2006 03:43
Hope,

Oops. Sorry. I compltely misread the title. I thought it meant, 'Have you ever done anything to yourself that made your own eyes pop?' Oh well, there goes another brilliant Homer comment in the trashbin (the one people scrounge through just to read the word Homer).

As to the sort of Googling you are referring to. I've done it in real life under my real name. I love seeing how much stuff is out there about me. And how no-one knows who I am on Orble. I get a perverse pleasure out of myself. I am just so good. Who would have thought that God Himself would choose the name Homer for Himself when he came to earth disguised as the most magnificent specimen of maleness and pure masculinity this world has ever seen? Not seen? Who would have thought God would have joined Orble? And not told everyone about it? Up until now? I had to. It's not fair to keep dumb people guessing, when they're so dumb they'd never guess rightly anyway. I've seen a lot of pretenders on Orble. I'm the real deal. I'm outing myself. Coming out of my divine closet. I am. I am Homer. No-one ever has to use the word God again. Just Homer. I am brilliant. I am so good. Homer (sigh).

By the way ... Do'nt I write a lot of crap? And not just on my own site?

Homer ...

Comment by Tracy

December 20th 2006 03:48
Hmmm, interesting, Homeer

Comment by K.L. Almeroth

December 20th 2006 04:08

Hope,

Yes, I google myself all the time...

I have aspirations of being famous, after all!!

It's fun...what comes up is actually everything that's here, on Orble...which is kind of cool...

(Then I freak out...oh my God, is Orble going to follow me around forever? When I become a famous writer, will all this stuff I said years ago come out about me? Me, flirting online? Me and Homer, bitch-slapping it out? My love affair with two women, DD and A.H.? The number of times us Orbles Angels actually do swear and make references to appendages??)

Oh, yeah. It is so all coming back to haunt me one day.

K.L.

Comment by DuskDevi

December 20th 2006 04:25
Hello Hope...

Oh lawdy...finally...someone asks this question. Perhaps it should have been; "is there anyone who hasn't?"!!

Good question Hope...
My nom de clavier(?) is not exclusive to Orble.
My Orble site comes up but needs to be in that exact order otherwise gets lost amongst the scrum of rugby sites.
My real name...well I come up as a singer, actress, newspaper, astro-physicist (yay!) and as me...it's okay, my occupation is G rated!..maybe PG...
My business site...comes up first, which is great!!

Hope (sorry...) you're feeling better.

DuskDevi

Comment by DuskDevi

December 20th 2006 04:42
Cherry....you're not supposed to tell anyone about that....

What appendages? Wachu talkin' bout gal?
I never say anything about arms and legs.
And I only swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth...which leads me to...

Oh My Goddess...I knowwww....all the comments we make come up and I gotta tell ya, read in a different context, it's a bit saucy!

Homer my Treasure...you're just all google-I'd over yourself aren't you?....

Comment by Ash

December 20th 2006 05:32
Hi Hope
Yep, like LaurenD I too was a stripper in a past life. I found it really intriguing that I was also a WWII pilot! hhhmmmmmm, may explain my kamakazee attitude toward everything!
Hope you feel better soon.
Ash

Comment by Ahmed

December 20th 2006 05:36
OMG, you have conjured up terrible memories, my full name (that I shall now never reveal for fear someone may google it) resuls in a terrible result from google, so terrible, so wierd, so ironic, so... disenchanting...

*sigh* bad google.

Comment by DuskDevi

December 20th 2006 05:50
Sergey Brin has so much power...

Comment by pegasus

December 20th 2006 06:02
hey Hope,

oh, I 'google' myself all the time. My full name is unique (I might be the only one in the world) so all the entries that came up were about me including articles I've written, scholarships I've received and the high school I attended has just put up class lists.

Under pegasus, as you can imagine, a million things came up that had nothing to do with me or orble...something about a winged horse of old mythology?? lol

I even tried 'pegasus hot' to try & point poor google in the right direction but it came up with things like 'pegasus hot air balloons' & 'pegasus Hot Lap'



Ahmed, now you have me intriqued as to what your name is to send google into such a tizzy.

Comment by Ahmed

December 20th 2006 06:06
My fullname just results in websites that erm, kind of incure stereotypes.

Lets just say if Borat was real, he very well might be this guy. (Then again, it seems so doctored, but has such an authentic feel to it...)

Comment by Brenton

December 20th 2006 07:46
I have pleanty and, as my name is unique all me... some not so good, but I intend to post about that later.

Comment by CarolineTigeress

December 20th 2006 13:46
I have. If you google my name with quotes "Caroline Tigeress" you'll get about 800 hits (expanded results). I write a lot

Caroline

Comment by The Daily Sonnet

December 20th 2006 19:33
I just searched my real name in quotes, and got 18,800 results. Googling the Daily Sonnet, on the other hand, revealed another blog started a couple of weeks before I joined Orble on BlogIt. However, I couldn't read that person's sonnets because that site requires paid membership to read the content.

Comment by ChrisB

December 21st 2006 00:48
I have, I'm a champion chess player from Britain, an Australian artist, a female dance teacher and a hirsute marine biologist from Canada.

Comment by Jessicca

December 21st 2006 06:09
Hi Hope!

Glad to know that the flu is on its way out of the system. ^_^

Well, if I use unquoted search I too encounter many sex sites and it isn't very nice.

If I used quoted search then there is only 1 result, which is my own profile from Yahoo!. LOL....

I did try to google my own health2know.com and I also found that there is one of the really nice orble members wrote something in another blog about my site. Such kind words! I haven't found out who is this angel yet though. ^_^

Comment by Always Eighteen

December 21st 2006 13:08
Yes I have, and it's a secret what I find!

Comment by Hope

December 21st 2006 14:02
Sniffles, cough, smile. I just popped in to see how my blog is doing and all your responses cheered me up. Thanks to all who've posted! I'm glad I'm not the only one who sometimes Google myself. Now why does that sound inappropriate? LOL. The next question is, have you ever Yahooed yourself? But that's another matter...

Comment by Bhumika

December 22nd 2006 03:40
i google myself more often than i would like to admit..it is fun and kind of addictive..

i don't think its bad..just another way to kill time on net..

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