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Put your real first and last name into google.com in double quotes.

And see how many hits you (and your namesakes round the world) get!

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 8 August 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

726.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 8 August 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

231, most of them actually being me, sadly.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 8 August 2004 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

12. And 5 of them aren't me.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 8 August 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

46,700.

― jaymc, Sunday, 8 August 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

449. Bizarrely enough, there is an australian CYCLING PHOTOGRAPHER with the exact same name as me!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Sunday, 8 August 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

12. It used to be more. But then I googled aimurchie and there's an ILB?ILE quote there. That's kinda weird.

― aimurchie, Sunday, 8 August 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

1,610.

(cozen gets 26,600 hits, understandably.)

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 8 August 2004 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm locked in a google battle with one who is apparently the only other Matt Falla!z3 out there. He's a journalist in the Channel islands, I'm currently kicking his ass.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 8 August 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

19, 7 of which are me, 2 of which are from ILX.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 8 August 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

162

Not one of these is me.

― C J (C J), Sunday, 8 August 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

398. They're all me.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 8 August 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

237,000.

lock thread now?

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 8 August 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

haha actually oops i forgot the double quotes. only 3060. unlock thread pls!

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 8 August 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

25,400 . I don't think any of them are me, but that will change.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 8 August 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

417

5 on google images, but they are bits of paintings not pictures of me.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 8 August 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, google images search actually gets you a lot of pictures with me.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 8 August 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i win. "about 4,980,000". anyone who knows my real name will understand why.

― purple patch (electricsound), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

4,710

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

actually sorry with the quotes around it it's 333,000.

― purple patch (electricsound), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

3,660

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

292. The top two are ILX threads!

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

22, all but one of which are me. If ya don't omit similar results it turns to 1790. It's scary, there's like amazon reviews that I wrote when I was like 13 and shit.

no picture results :(

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Can anybody get less?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

My number one picture result:

http://www.shakerwssg.org/images/Emily_Robinson.gif

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

mind you, the only result that isn't me is a canadian geneaolgical site. Apparently my namesake was/is worthy of the title "Best Of Humboldt" http://www.afhs.ab.ca/data/humboldt/humboldt_r.html

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

259. Many of which are for a scriptwriter who did a few Buffy episodes (some of the funnier ones as it happens). I dont seem to appear, but its probably because I always referred to myself with my middle inital also (which I didnt search on), or as Trayce.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

And hahaah I totally figured Jim would win this one hands down =)

― Chreiysy (trayce), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

926 - but only one of the first page of results is me, at number 4.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 8 August 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

28,700 for "Ian Johnson". (2.03 seconds)

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Sunday, 8 August 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

904.

How many of the top ten hits for your name are for you? (None in my case; I can swim, but I'll never be a competitive swimmer.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 8 August 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

152,000.

I am top hit for it, too. However, when this old dude off 'All My Children' dies I presume I'll lose that. Not that I really care, obv.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 8 August 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

759 for stevie nixed (one of the two images that I get after googling for pix)
4,090 for my real name (but sans double quotes)

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 8 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

about 108

The first couple are things that I've written, and there only seems to be one other person in the world with my name, who just gives out a lot of awards in France.

about 210
for my internet name. all me obviously

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 8 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

oh an the internet name not jellybean, but the other one

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 8 August 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

779

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 8 August 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

109.

http://khs52.org/Images/Royalty/MOSTPOP.JPG

Me in happier days.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 8 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

1,680, most of which are me.

I wonder how much lower all of our scores would be if we eliminated results from ILX?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 8 August 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

34. 10 of them (second through fifth, and some later ones) are all me.

None of them are from ILX.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

About 3 of mine are the real me. I'm kinda annoyed that I've had to include people who have my first name ass their middle name.

My full name is unique and has no google hits! Yay, for crappy Edmund being good for something other than providing me with a vowel to make the whole jel thing work.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

My full name gives no hits. One of the small advantages of having Jan as your middle name and not being a girl.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

fifty thousand and one hundred. i don't think any refer to me. when i include my middle name i get none.

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I get 2370, none of which are me.

However, one is a wanted poster for a guy who hasn't paid child support in OHIO - if you see this man

http://jfs.ohio.gov/county/licking/objects/kevingilchrist.JPG

be sure to contact your local law enforcement officers...

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Name, regular style: "about 11,200." Full name: none.

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

12 (7 are me)

― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

1,810. I like how the first one says I'm right and that the fourth says that me being right is a "horrifying, very bonkers thought."

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 8 August 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

And the fifth is about how Ronan agrees with me!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 8 August 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

In my case, the first 28 are me, then a couple that aren't, and most of the rest are...the ones that aren't cycling, badminton or Bad Religion lyrics/guitar tab.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 8 August 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

about 391

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

5, and none of them are me.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

What's really funny is that if I google "AaronHz", my IGN(!) posts come up.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

63. But i'm the only one.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

133 results, none me.

The two most famous CatherineLeeches are a violist at the Birmingham Conservatoire and the European Director of Caribtours. Other CatherineLeeches are lawyers, students, Irish people, dead people.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

13,700

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of them the dude from Maroon 5 who has the same name as me.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh look: http://refuse-to-regret.com/

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha!

The Linnet by Elizabeth English

"Setting - Scottish Borderlands, Chevron Hills, 1379 --- Beginning with a descriptive prologue the reader will at once see that Lady Maude Darnley has reason to have acquired her reputation as being cold, difficult, and despising the male species. Fergus, the healer who found and nursed her physical body back to life, now seven years later, lay dying and disturbed with the knowledge that he hadn't completed the healing. Fergus knew he had no choice but to send his apprentice, the minstrel Ronan Fitzgerald to complete the task he'd left undone and without telling him exactly what he had to heal after having sworn an oath to Lady Maude's father that he would never reveal to another living soul that Maude had been violated.

Ronan Fitzgerald had been a traveling minstrel, with a gift for healing and promised Fergus that he would go to Lord Darnley and do what was asked of him. His introduction to Lady Maude was less than auspicious as with her cutting tongue she did her best to drive him away. Ronan saw beyond the rapier sharp tongue and having an innate sense that made him such a good healer, he saw beneath the bravado and recognized her terror by listening, really listening to the music he heard her play. As he came to care deeply for her, and with the clans ready to annihilate one another at the least provocation, Ronan would have to reach her before her terror would drive her completely over the edge and her father calling an all-out war against the Kirallen's."

"Unfortunately, I find Ronan grating. I'm sure he's meant to be the pacifist, all-sage guy to administer the sexual healing on Maude, but he is also a terribly whiny pipsqueak, moaning on and on about why he has to be here with the Darnleys, why must people fight, moan moan moan. I am also amused by how, after hearing Maude's tragic ordeal, he immediately switches gears from "Why oh why do I kiss that horrible woman?" to "She's mine, we're meant to be, oh, oh, oh!" Give me a break. If he's going to be the perfect fantasy dream guy in this story, the least he can do is to not act like a petulant whiny brat when he's in a situation not of his liking. "

Mark????

"Ronan, however, is both wise and persistent. His kindness, intelligence, and abilities stand him in good stead as he seeks to find out what ails Lady Maude beneath her haughty exterior. Ronan is one of the first to guess that a truly troubled heart lies beneath Maude's cold demeanor and he sets about trying to help Maude free herself from her self-imposed prison."

" From the opening pages I was particularly intrigued with Ronan Fitzgerald. He is not the typical romance hero. While he is handsome and charismatic, he is not a medieval knight or warrior. Instead he is a minstrel, talented with the harp and moved by music and song. He prefers to travel with few belongings, rather than claim wealth and prestige as is his right as a relative of an earl. As the apprentice to Fergus, he is learned in the ways of healing, but he also seems to be possessed of something indefinable, perhaps spiritual or magical"

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The raver wired in he had bad beats comin’ in
And the good Dublin FAP was in peril.
And later that night when his lights went outta sight
Came the wreck of the Ronan Fitzgerald.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 August 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

665

Some are me, including the two top hits amazingly, but I share my (unusual last) name with a minor Shakespearean actor and some fungus expert in Warwickshire.

Incidentally, I am dumb, but why does putting the quotes in lead to less hits?

― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 8 August 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

it gives the exact match. "roger adultery" as opposed to ALL of the Rogers and ALL the Adulterys. Try googling David by itself. Your computer will probably crash!

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 8 August 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, okay, thanks.

And yeah, common first name + uncommon last name = saved from Google obscurity!

― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 8 August 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(David alone... 90,000,000 hits.)

― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 8 August 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

577

i am no longer top, bah

among the pics was this photo of me DJing in Manchester that I was not even aware of until now

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Sunday, 8 August 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

358 for me, which may sound a lot, but 342 of those are Sinister posts :/

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

― holojames (holojames), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

For "Kim D******" there are only 3 results - none of them are me.
If I use "Kimberley D******" there are 0.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I got 980 btw.

I forgot to mention that amidst the joy of finding a character in a book with my name.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

are there any engines that offer proper case-sensitive searching btw??

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 8 August 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

6. but all but one are separated by commas and therefore redundant. (eg ellis gary, *** duncan)

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 8 August 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

15, 5 are about me.

― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 8 August 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

with my real name, 4 -- all of them being me.

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 8 August 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

4, all me, and 2 from here

― Symplistic (shmuel), Sunday, 8 August 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

41, almost all me.

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 8 August 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

So no-one's beaten Jim yet, I take it?

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 8 August 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

only with sticks

― purple patch (electricsound), Sunday, 8 August 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

159

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 9 August 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Zero. But that's because I've never used my full name anywhere, for any online purpose whatsoever. So naturally -- zero.

Googling my full ILX nickname brings back 130 results, though. 55 of which are either from lyrics sites that bring up the song I got my nickname from or other sites that quote the exact set of lyrics this little lyric segment actually comes from. So the rest (i.e. 75) are from this little message board thingy. Dude.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 9 August 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

1050. Of the first 40, 23 are me. (Others include scientists, a 22-year-old American student, a cricket star, . . .)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 9 August 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Um... 136, but one of them is a mildly disturbing short story about a protagonist with my name haranging by a clown:

Jeremy Coombs, the birthday boy, had swung a stuffed raccoon, one of his brand new presents, by the tail all day, following Tommy wherever he went, batting him with it.

"Do more magic!" Jeremy screamed at him.

All the kids laughed when Jeremy hit Tommy with the raccoon.

"Do more magic!" they screamed along with Jeremy.

Tommy only had eighteen tricks. It was usually enough.

"Because you want to be a clown?" his father had said when Tommy told him he was dropping out of college. He was a junior at Boston University. A business major.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 9 August 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

So... did you finally convince the clown to do more magic?

*winks*

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 9 August 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

583
and a couple are me

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 9 August 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Anthony, that "horrifying, bonkers idea that Anthony may be right" thread is incredible. I had no idea trife and stevem were so down with Limp Bizkit!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 9 August 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

141

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 9 August 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

without quotes: 19,100

with quotes: 20,100

which is very weird, since I assumed that since my name (especially the first-last combination) is quite odd, I would get many less hits from putting my name in quotes. But I got more? Wha?

Just goes to show the Google engine is imperfect.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

And the image searce turns up, first of all, a VERY bad picture of me, in which I look about 20 pounds more over weight than I even am (and I was overweight at the time), some nice pictures I've taken, a couple of totally inexplicable things, and this:

http://www.m10k.net/resources/000/monkey33.jpg

I will never get away from this picture. Google image search has been giving this as a result for *years*.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

154.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Monday, 9 August 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

49 and only two are me, one is a character in a short, there is another me who is a Badinton Coach, another one is the person you need to see if you need to get a card to get into the University Of Western Australia. There also seems to be a version of me who is an up and coming Rally Driver, although I wish me well in that. I don't want that me to become really good, or people will ask if I am "the" Davel. A bit like the 60 year old David Beckham who changed his name because of all the comments.

― Davel (Davel), Monday, 9 August 2004 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

5. 3 are me.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 9 August 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

5880

Me on holiday:
http://w3.byuh.edu/academics/religion/Images/Brennan-R.jpg

― robster (robster), Monday, 9 August 2004 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

About 61. Most of them seem to be me, although there are some genealogy sites with ancient Sarahs on them, and some outdated pages from DU (which are me) are strangely high up the list. I used to have a doppelganger--a pretty blonde woman in Ohio who was about my age and had an info page with a picture up on her company's website. That's since disappeared. I wonder where she is...

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 9 August 2004 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the phrase Ancient Sarahs. There should be a band called the Ancient Sarahs. Maybe there is.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 August 2004 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

There is now!

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 9 August 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Real name: 2140. I think that *none* of them are me. Oh, except for the Baronness of Chester, obviously.

Stage name: 172. Only one reference is not to mem, which appears to be some kind of fantasy/sci-fi author. No! Wait! There's a mistaken reference on a Dream Academy page. Ha ha!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

6 million two hundred and twenty thousand, I am common

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 9 August 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

post pics from the image search please

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 9 August 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"about 157" the third of which is for a book I was supposed to write, but never did because of publishing company shake-ups. Apparently Amazon will notify you when it is in stock. News to me.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 9 August 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the only one that looks anything like me:

http://www.gmfilm.co.uk/NFT_16Nov_02.jpg

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

293 & none of them are about me! yay!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 August 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

About 70, all me, but mostly from Sinister, along with a few random university-related ones.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 9 August 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

2,840 for "n1ck s0uth@ll"
53 for "s1ck m0uthy"

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 9 August 2004 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

50, and 13 of them me, only two work related.

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 9 August 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

162,000

pwn3d

― ENRQ (Enrique), Monday, 9 August 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Only result for a google image search of my name:

http://members.iweb.net.au/~gmepham/ladies220900.JPG

I wonder which one is me.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 9 August 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, if I use my full posh name I get http://www.efanguide.com/~spicegirls/vic_parkinson02.jpg

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 9 August 2004 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm still winning, aren't i? here's a clue why:

http://sportsmed.starwave.com/i/magazine/new/james_dean.jpg

― purple patch (electricsound), Monday, 9 August 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

no, I beat you by 2 million, but then I do have about the third most common name in the UK

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

did you put quotes around your name before you search?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

yup

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 6,220,000 for ""chris Brown"". (0.16 seconds

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

but weirdly:
Results 1 - 10 of about 136,000 for "chris Brown". (0.20 seconds)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

my number of results has gone up to 740....26 more than yesterday. I'm amused to see that the hit which includes the text string mark Hester as an adulterer appears higher than any real references to me (just above the first one, in fact).

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

446 - all seem to be me.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Jim, your real name is James Dean? Whoa! Were your parents, like, fans or something?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

625.
ihttp://www.nireland.com/uts/TMillar.jpg

― TOMBOT, Monday, 9 August 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

He looks stately, that one.

The most wonderful thing about Ned Raggetts is that I'm the only one.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

26,400

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

57,200. The real me comes 18th. Apparently I was born in Leicestershire in 1968. The other mes get up to all kinds of interesting stuff; software, real estate, a Perpetual Ocean Gallery, etc, etc.

Here's one of the literally several books I seem to have written:

http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/images/miglia_bk.jpg

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

26, none of them being me.

ILMers might however being interested to know that "I" play guitar in a blitzcore punk band from Seattle and co-engineered a Chuck Negron live album!

― Jeff W (zebedee), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

My maiden name gives 87 hits, most of them being me on sinister, or references to me on sinister.

I also get this photo, which is not me
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrea1/photo111.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

14. 4 are me and the other 10 are a high school girl who runs track in Beverly Hills.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

27. None are me.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

2590

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

1,560

All but one on the first page are me. And then comes my twin, same-named porn star sister.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate trying to google old friends who have really common names. it basically becomes an impossibility to sort out the results.

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

and there only seems to be one other person in the world with my name

I like the way people are assuming that everyone in the world is mentioned on the internet (more so google's index).

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently i'm related to cecil b. demille

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

by BLOOD

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

63,800 with quotes, most of which is slash.
205,000 most of which is still slash.
Suprisingly none by Astronomy Mod. :P

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

5,400,000 is what you get for being so common you're almost invisible.
There's somebody with the same name at my video store and we're always swapping late fees.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 August 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

No results. Yay.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

84,800 with quotes
3,990,000 without

i am a multitude

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

26, most of them of this other guy who seemed to achieve much more in life than I. Probably has better syntax too.

― alex in montreal, Monday, 9 August 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the way people are assuming that everyone in the world is mentioned on the internet (more so google's index).

Actually, I'm kinda hoping there are more D34nn4 4gu!l3r4s * [search-proofed because I'd rather not see it out there on Google, thank you] out there in this world, since it's kinda embarrassing feeling like I'm the only one who has this name.

*: Don't laugh.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

1200 for my real name. About 1500 for my user id..

This is not me:
http://www.perrific.com/concerts/3GT/2000/050400/tn_Dave225.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

79 - a rather paltry figure, but they're all me.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

31 with quotes, 99% of which are me - the third of which, slightly irritatingly, is an ILM thread called "songs about masturbation".

In fact, it'd be great if one of those nice mod people could alter it so that doesn't happen anymore? The thread is this one: songs about masturbation

And in images, I get this:

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/wjoliver/images/na-3164-167.jpg

...which, thanks to an extremely kind ilxor, i now have on a t-shirt!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(I'm third from the right apparently)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

um, that was very much like the total perspective vortex.

1st appearance of the real me (page 2 of results) where google has picked up my name *in the javascript comments* for my homepage.

2nd appearance of me (page 22 of results!): http://techmart.com/blueboy/sarah80.html

9490 in total, helped by having a name that's two forenames.

top image link:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:Zk6TQG9nGW0J:www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~optics/cirpass/World-tour/Gemini-S/logo.gif

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Pinkney's Green is just up the road from me. Is that the bit you helped with, Koogy?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

yep 8) and about 50% of the sleeve scans for the site

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

7,300,000 without quotes (down to just 741,000 for the UK)
6,730 with quotes (down to just 814 for the UK)
Having gone through the first 100, none of them are me.

I appear to be the centre half for Huntly football club, or a failed MP and image search only throws up one hit:

http://www.patent.gov.uk/tm/tmj/journals/6482/domestic/images/2328397.png

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that one...

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

if i put my sunday name in i get 442, the name i go by i get 3. one of whom worryingly has the Yahoo ID of nathaliebomba3255. oh! all cause i got robbielumsden@yahoo.co.uk, this poor boy has entered a world of interweb gender realignment.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

163 and no pictures.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lileks.com/postcards/rest/blount.jpg

http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/7/Blount/Graphics/JamesBlount-Coat-of-Arms-Wheeler.gif

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno how 2 do pictures anymore.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

robbie:

type "ihttp ://therestoftheURL"

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

AND THEN PRESS RETURN

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

oh my! what's wrong with old fashioned img src's?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah McLusky would have a good chance of winning with her real name, if she was still on ILX regularly. Oh hell, I search hers for her: about 29,100 results.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

most things are under "H" which (surprise!) do not show up. under my last name 42 refs, 39 of which are me and 3 are my brother.

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

190, evenly divided between me and the Strut DJ.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

110, all me. (Reduces to 44, though, when similar pages are removed etc.) No pics.

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

266

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

36 with quotes.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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