The dangers of googling

The most recent google doesn't have me until page four and it's from a genealogy forum. As is the next one on page eight.

There is a restaurant with my name in Amsterdam.

Originally Posted by gemlady

There is a restaurant with my name in Amsterdam.

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Hopefully not in the Red Light district!

I googled my name once and only came up with men with some part of my name. It's been a lifelong curse. They always think my first name is a mans last name. ugh Next time I'll check more into it and see if I come up at all.

Number one hit is an artist who does landscapes and cityscapes (quite nice ones actually), and the next few are all my websites

When I Google my name, almost all of the top ten results are a journalist for the Boston Globe. On the fourth or fifth page there is a reference to me, in the Dean's List at my university! My last name is pretty typical now.

When I Google my maiden name, 9 out of 10 results on the first page are me, and the other one is a high school basketball player in Texas. I had a pretty uncommon last name originally.

If I Google my screenname, which is actually zorana_dragonkyn (I have never done that one before!) every single result is me. Google runs out of results before it runs out of references to me. LOL.

When I googled my name it pulled up a story I wrote for another cat story, and there was someone with my name that was an inspiration for some, but since my name helped this person loose weight that ain't me!

Well, if I google my full name the only things I get actually about me are a defunct reunion.com page and some fundraising page for a shelter walkathon I was in a few years ago.
If I look up the nickname I used to use most often and my last name I get a photo of my dog from a costume parade we entered in 2004 (I didn't even know that was up there!) and a newsletter from our animal-assisted therapy group. If I look up the nickname I've always used online and sometimes use in person plus my last name, I get about 10 results. I get a lot more actually about me if I search for my nickname and the initial of my last name, though. The only way I got results that are ONLY about me is by putting in chicagocanine (my common username and website name.) The other usernames I use are apparently not unique.

In other words, nothing really interesting! However I did once find something interesting (weird) by searching for my name on the web a long time ago-- this was before google. I found a web page an ex-boyfriend of mine had put up called "Hall of Ex Girlfriends" which included a really old photo of me.

I googled my name and didn't come up with much, my mother's name brought up lots of info about a neurology author, and I discovered that one of my ex boyfriends, who's a musician, has a wikipedia page about him and is drumming for and romantically involved with, KT Tunstel. Wierd. I felt like a right stalker, lol!

I have an uncommon name, so all the entries reference me.

Sites I found:
1) Web pages dedicated to the book chapter that I helped write a chapter
2) A published psychology article in a journal
3) A picture of me from Spin.com when I was being interviewed at a show
4) A picture of me and friends from a show that the San Francisco Chronicle
5) A couple of petitions I signed over the years

My ex husband is all over google but I am tucked away nicely which is how I like it. I have an unusual first name and my last name sounds like a first name so it is weird.

well my cat is more famous than i am LOL there are a lot of girls with my name and thousands people with my surname, but there's only one person in google with my name and surname and it is ME one photography website and TCS of course

I get lots of articles I've written and both my masters theses in the local university library database. I'm the only person in the world with my name.

One thing you'd come up with on my name is a story, "The Cat Burglar," to which I've posted a link before.

The Cat Burglar

It's a story I wrote for a now-defunct CompuServe forum that supported Best Friends. All the names in it are from that forum.

The poem is here:

I Awake

By the way, this location I just found by googling my name and the title of the poem. Every time I do that, I find it in a few more places. I see there are three new ones, including this one. And this particular webmaster has changed the name in the poem from "Jimmy" to "Jenny." I have written her and told her that I don't have a problem with that.