You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well

I Am Somebody, Thanks Google: Donald Turnbull

I'm fearful of what people see when then google me - and more fearful when they google my stage name. google = skynet

My family is the only Nagelmakers in Canada and there is only a small group of them in Holland (from what I've seen). I guess I really lucked out, because even if you just Google Nagelmakers I'm the top result, as well as most of the subsequent results as well.

Despite many recent claims that my common name makes me anonymous:

My Newsvine column is #5 in a search for Brian Ford.

My Flickr Profile is usually on the first or second page.

One year ago -- Googling "Brian Ford" wouldn't have found me in the top 100 pages.

Newsvine definitely has a bit of Google Juice for those who put in consistent effort.

Searching "Brian Ford" via Yahoo, my Newsvine Page is the #1 hit.

Methinks she's either not writing enough -- or too few people are reading what she does write.

Or both.

1-6, 8 and 11 are all me when one searches on my name. Nothing special, though. I'm pretty unique.

Pete ZaHutt -- number one!

I don't know whether people who have a very popular name like "John Smith" (also a beer) are very lucky or very unlucky.

Just my first name is enough.

6+ million hits.

I'm #1.

Start adding my last name or nickname (KuraFire) and the results become incredibly dense with results that are all about me.

It sure helps being a prominent member of the web standards movement ;-) (and having a unique first name within that community)

I'll stop being cocky in a few minutes, no worries. :D

My internet name, newsaddikt, turns up all the right sites when its Googled. The top 2 sites had been the blogs I use. W/ the top site being my main work blog newsaddikt.wordpress.com. Which was great. But when I opened a newsvine account, that became the top site.

I'm somewhat comforted by the fact that my real name turns up nothing but my Newsvine moniker comes up in the first page of results.

Then she swapped her maiden name for her husband's last name, Wilson, and dropped out of sight.

Heh, this is actually my safeguard in having my real name on here, I figure if ever necessary to go incognito, I can just take my husband's last name.

Nothing under my name but Newsvine stuff and aquarium fish profiles.

****rolling into the ball of nothingness and being non-exhistant****

What kind of lame-ass company relies on Google alone to find someone's publications? And then only Googles under their name, not the subject or title of the publications? Sounds like she dodged a bullet with that company.

My name is the top five results in Google, I must be somebody. But that is why I choose not to use my real name in online forums.

I have about four pages of stuff that is me when you Google me, what's that mean?

woo! i take up two pages on google.... but then again, my last name is not a common name (and i have multiple web sites)

#1, (my full name) again, however it disappeared for a couple of months, back then, and I can't even sleep at night. Now I can sleep easy - until it disappears again. Dang!

I currently occupy the entire first page of Google hits except no. 8 and 9. I also pop up on the following pages. Damn...

Very few ignobluses out in the world, it seems.

I need to ask - are people using inverted commas when they google their names? I miss out on number 5 in the first 14 results if I miss out inverted commas. With inverted commas I'm in all but 2 of the 28 search results.

Holy moley; 19 pages of lil' ol' me?!

Mine does!! (my real name)

That is why I am so careful when I do anything on line with my name.,

I'm a baseball player from the 30s and 40s, according to Google. I try my best to keep my meatspace name from becoming common information on the intarwebs. You have to get really specific with search engine queries to find anything about me. There are apparently a few other people on the planet that share my name, but alas... nothing about me.

A search for my screenname pulls up quite a few hits though, about half of which are actually me. As of this post, 70% of the first page of results are for my content -- Twitter, Jaiku, Newsvine, some forums, and my own site.

If I search for "Ryan Joseph" I don't get anything relating to me. But search for my universal website name, ryaninc, and the entire first page and part of the second is all me (minus the ryaninc.com, which I unfortunately do not own). Not too bad, methinks. :-)