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where do you rank in the results, if at all?

put it in speechmarks for better results of course...i'm top of my own list and proud, though it did take some time to beat off the corporate lawyer in Houston and the comic book artist who share my moniker

― blueski, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

bizarrely, a webpage I haven't touched in 6 years ranks highest for mine, which must come as an annoyance to the Captain of Wigan Football club, or the respected Australian technology editor, or the

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 09:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Think that's the captain of Wigan Rugby League Football club you're thinking of. I was secretly hoping you were him.

― lol p xx, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

(ahem)

other Andrew Farrell, from Dublin, who works on the web for a living. My apologies to them all.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Bah. Even here he gets more love than me. Still, I win the Googlefite.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 09:48 (twenty-three years ago)

my full name = I'm the only one!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And me..

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:03 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean with middle name/initial? That's cheating.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)

With my full name in speechmarks, all the top ten results are MEEEEEEEE in various incarnations. I don't think there are any others.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:09 (twenty-three years ago)

No - not with middle names.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Big round of applause for the only other webpage with my name on it that has fuck all to do with me:

http://www.lex.unict.it/archivio/cp2001/calendario.htm

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops tell a lie. There was one of me born in Yorkshire in 1841, quite possibly a great-great-grandmother.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha unless she married her own brother/cousin or something that's not likely AT ALL, come to think of it.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I win the Google fite too, although I win it by talking total bollocks on ILE greenspun, so the victory is hollow.
Then there's the fictional Anna Fieldings. One is a madge-in-waiting leader of the Tellerites in some sci-fi book called 'The Compass of the Soul' (you would expect a more exotic name for that), one is an adopted child and the third fictional one is here

www.herdofsheep.com/issue_55/survey.asp

which has nothing to do with me whatsoever, but throws up some worrying paralells, although I would never survey my friends and they don't all carry coke around. May sue for defamation of character.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Archel, perhaps she was a proto-feminist.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:24 (twenty-three years ago)

The only mention of my real name I can find anywhere is on a census record from 1928 Franklin Co, Waynesboro! I am unique, well my name at least...

― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:25 (twenty-three years ago)

bah, don't talk to me about googling my own name:

http://countrymusicandrewdean.homestead.com/WinterWonderland.html

sigh.

andy

― koogs, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah ha ha ha ha x 100000000000000

http://music.dartmouth.edu/~kov/soundArt/plinkyUse.html

Not sure how to do that link thingy, new to this...

― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:31 (twenty-three years ago)

The only other google hits on my name that I can find refer to a bloke that used to live in the same village as I did, and I know him. Or well, my dad does anyway. He's a runner. I am most definitely not. Why oh why oh why didn't I submit my writing under a pseudonym? Oh yeah. I've remembered now. It's because I'm STUPID.

― lol p xx, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I win mine with my King Of The Boots article on Freaky Trigger, which also somehow garners me top Music Journalist Status in Germany and Croatia which quotes me as follows
:the best Bootlegs is like car accidents", writes the English music critic Pete Baran. "usually horribly, in addition, of a strange fascination."

Which I think is a double translation of "a new bootleg, is like watching a car crash. Often messy, often fascinating"

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

A google search for my name yields ~22 results, only two of which do not pertain directly to me. Go me!

Also, a search for my surname refers directly to either myself, my father, my uncle, or my mother for the first twenty results or so.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:42 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Gabriel Rodriguez: sturdy defender for the Montevideo Wanderers

2. and this guy:

http://www.angelfire.com/ak/GABRIELRODRIGUEZ/yonew.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/ak/GABRIELRODRIGUEZ/hola.GIF
http://www.angelfire.com/ak/GABRIELRODRIGUEZ/pic9.jpg

3. this guy:

http://www.zonguitars.com/gr.jpg

USES ZON GUITARS! ooh...
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel's studies of the bass began at age 14. He proceeded through the Inter-American University and the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, where he studied theory and composition. Gabriel is most famous for his unique playing style, which blends traditional Latin jazz with a modern, educated aggressiveness.

4. this guy:

Gabriel Rodriguez
Department of Economics
University of Ottowa
Phone: (613) 562-5800, ext. 1750
Fax: (613) 562-5999
E-Mail Address: gabrielr@uottawa.ca
Office (building, room number): 200 Wilbrod, #104

University Degrees:

B.A. (Catholic University of Peru)
M.Sc. (Montreal)
Ph.D. (Montreal)
Rank/Status: Assistant Professor

Research Interests:

time series econometrics
applied macroeconomics
structural change
long-term economic relationship

5. this guy:

Hello my name is Gabriel Rodriguez. My ICQ number is 152269105, I'm a 15 year old boy from Argentina and I am interested in Computer Generated, Game Development and Lord of the Rings. My occupation is Military and I speak English and Spanish.

6. this guy:

Gabriel Rodriguez
Building Attendant I
Physical Plant - ASF 162A
(956) 381-2770 Ext.2794
1201 W. University Drive, Edinburg, TX 78539-2999
(University of Texas Panamerican)

7. this guy:

Welcome Page of Gabriel Rodriguez
(http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~gabriel)

Gabriel is lazy. Bad Gabriel. Bad

(that's the whole site)

8. this guy:

http://www.visitezacatecas.com.mx/gobierno/personales/gabriel/regidor.jpg

9. this guy:

(HOUSTON) Mervyn M. Mosbacker United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas announced today that Gabriel Rolando Rodriguez , 39, of McAllen, pled guilty yesterday afternoon beforeU. S. District Judge David Hittner to both counts of a two-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 1000 kilograms or more of marijuana and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments. Gabriel Rodriguez is an evangelical minister in McAllen and owner of El Bendecido ("The Blessed") Auto Sales in Alamo, Texas.

10: and this guy:

http://www.classicbodybuilders.com/bodybuilder/gabrielrodriguez1.jpg

― gabriel (gabe), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:47 (twenty-three years ago)

er... and this guy:

http://www.classicbodybuilders.com/bodybuilder/gabrielrodriguez1.jpg

― gabriel (gabe), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

doh!

anyway, the most crucial member of this vast brotherhood that I belong to is here, in all his glory: http://www.classicbodybuilders.com/bodybuilder/gabrielrodriguez1.jpg

― gabriel (gabe), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.windsorms.org/English/Newspaper/June%20Newspaper.htm

hmm

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 11:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree that really thin-strap tank tops shouldn’t be allowed but I do think that at least some tank tops should be allowed.

Is this you??

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 11:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Beat this - i'm TWO cats.

― sean g, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

And a 13 year old spanish cross country champion, which is od cuz my names irish

― sean g, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to think doing this was a really pathetic g*ndola bob thing to do, but curiosity got the better of me -- just to make sure that there aren't any nicole hate sites or some porn chiX0r with the same name.

So when I do finally google my name the first site that pops up is this. It's so anti-climatic.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but not if you put your name in quotes, Nicole.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't bother with all of that. Oh, so now I'm the recipient of a "Vulcan Scholarship". I wonder if that means there's a nicole out there with pointy ears.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 12:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Another one?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 12:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Due to having a fairly unusual last name, there is only one other google person with my name, and he is/was a high school wrestler. There are all these pages with his stats and everything.

― Nick A., Tuesday, 15 October 2002 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

i do quite well. there aren't many other greg kittens, it seems. nice to see the second result is "if greg kitten was a robot". and look, there's my dead blog! wow.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't looked in a while, but last time I checked there was a fine website touting quality handmade furniture.

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, I am pretty sure Raleigh did not handle the queen.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

A photo of me comes top! Another photo comes second, from the days of long hair in a ponytail, plus a beard! Then it's this nonsense here, which comfortably beats out the medical professor and the sensei of the Imperial Shotokan Karate School, achievements that are clearly as nothing compared to talking bollocks on ILX.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

"My favorite story of all the ones I've put into words is about a man who falls in love with a dragon."

*sob*

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Personally, I very much approve of men falling in love with dragons.

There's a London DJ named Christine Indigo. Is she any good?

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

dan, thats beautiful

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

gah that pesky drummer from place-bo takes up most of my top ten, but then i rarely use my surname on-line...

apart from that there's the christian computing guy, an artist in South Carolina and some historian guy from canada

this has led me to discover that carsmile.com (rub french on-line auto dealership) has GONE though, hahahahaha...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I was about to say, Dan, what is the difference between that guy and you? ;-)

To paraphrase Tigger, the most wonderful thing about Ned Raggetts is that I'm the only one. Dig deep enough and you eventually find connections to Dave Raggett and other such folk, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I was about to say, Dan, what is the difference between that guy and you?

SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

See, this is why I was so happy to finally see your winsome smile in the flesh, now I can imagine it mouthing these tender words.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"He lives in Washington, D.C., with his dog, Coltrane."

I'm a punchline!

― stevie mitch, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

There are thousands upon thousands of sites with my name. None, if I include my middle name.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

My favorite is "I've got a lot of stories involving a woman and a lion in my head" -- Dang, why don't you just admit this is really your site?

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I get 7 pages of Hanson slash stories till my first mention, which is a hate mail piece someone wrote to me in the college paper. If you look deep enough there is a gay porn "star" with my same name. He is a "hot innocent cub" or something to that effect. Free pictures online.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 02:26 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

HAHAHA! Oh man.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit! This is about something I wrote in 1995!

Man, it's creepy seeing all these residual "furry" websites that mention me. If I knew drawing cartoon animals would expose me to so much goddamned weirdness, I never would've started in the first place.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

You say that now...

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Does this mean I should start pitching to High Times now?

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm the only one. Although if you do it without quote marks, you get a lot of hits about the Fletch movie.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

If you do a google image search and come up with a thumbnail that links to an image that doesn't exist anymore, is there any way to show the thumbnail here as an image through the img src coding? I guess I want to find the address for the thumbnail, not the pic itself.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I did this the other day and all I have to say is that by page 4 or 5 of the Google results, I came upon a page titled "she fucked my ass." I was #23. Well, a link to an old article of mine was #23. I still don't understand how I'm associated with that page. And not for nothing, I'd have remembered if I fucked a girl in the ass, thank you very much.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha Nate! I love how a review of an EP was magically turned into a review of a show!

"Mr. Patrinizing" HA!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

That astrophysicist is going to plague me to my grave. I show up on the second page of hits from the IDM mailing list archives and then again on the third page from the ILM archives (making a joke about IDM!! wtf) from back when I used my real name.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 19 December 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

test
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=www.lstarweb.com/onalaska/photos/20000224p2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.lstarweb.com/onalaska/sports/20000224s2.html&h=268&w=216&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnick%2Bammerman%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

xp perry: it's like Martinizing, only it takes the starch out of people

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Other residual strangeness:

contributions to the Simpsons newsgroup, ca. 1996-97
user-made Need For Speed cars (I am a l33t m0d cr3A+0r)
some post to some board in 1996 or so in which I accuse John Major of having a Mr. Bean voice

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Some shitty articles I wrote, stuff about various bands I was in, an article about the college radio station I was involved with, and pages of records for the high school/college wrestler who shares my name. I wanted to link to his picture because it's funny, but oh well.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

My real name is shared with a very well-known land use/planning professor from Australia, several other random professors, a director of a large international bank, a science fiction author, a guy who gave his wife one of his kidneys, a chief executive of a major health care trust in the U.K., several doctors, a '28 year old Redskins fan', an Australian guy highly placed in the "Victorian Government eCommerce Roadshow" whatever that is, a highly ranked am/pro billiards player in the U.K., the director of investment for 'Communities Scotland', a Welsh Rally Car Race Team member, an internet comic website admin, and so on. My name, which is fairly uncommon in the states, is extremely common among U.K. and Aussie folk.

I'm not on there for about 20 pages or so.

― webcrack (music=crack), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm assuming we've all seen The Onion this week: "Clinton Googles Self"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

today's the fifth anniversary of his impeachment!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

But he wasn't impeached?

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Or was he?

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I was medically dead from '92 to '00.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

impeachment hearings?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I think in the presidential context, "impeachment" only refers to the official accusation. Both Clinton and Andrew Johnson were impeached; only in the latter's case did it result in him leaving office.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

impeachment is the process not necessarily the result?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish something would come up when I Google my name. It's almost as if I don't exist!

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I know what you get for me: various contributions to gaming websites, mostly World Of Darkness (OH THE HORROR), and some Robert Jordan stuff. And then my job stuff.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

you obviously aren't getting the right, uh, what was it Clinton got impeached for? whatever it was, that's what you should do, or get, or whatever. it may not get on googley, but it will probably make you not care for a while.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

A search for me reveals only me; however, a search for me younger brother reveals him and this: http://www.schiffsphoto.de/HTM/General/ChristopherMeeder.htm

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't exist either, except for one question to a newsgroup about javascript. It was a stupid question too.

A friend of mine with a fairly common name shares a name with a scary Christian fundamentalist. It's amusing to google his name and get links to various academic/liberal writings of his along with over-the-top religious drivel.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

this came up

http://active-media.com/dca/lynn/lynnsimon.jpeg

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

As recently as a year ago I googled myself and came up with nothing but stuff about this old Hollywood actor (don't know if he's a legend or not, but I like to pretend he is) and the theater named after him in Austin:

http://i50.tinypic.com/2s8hfgg.jpg

But now there's a new Z------ S---- in the field, a porn star!

http://i47.tinypic.com/2nqqqs0.jpg

― ^^potentially not true at all, sry^^ (Z S), Thursday, 4 February 2010 03:05 (fifteen years ago)

http://i46.tinypic.com/2d8kx9c.jpg

― ^^potentially not true at all, sry^^ (Z S), Thursday, 4 February 2010 03:06 (fifteen years ago)

the eye contact is disarming

― ^^potentially not true at all, sry^^ (Z S), Thursday, 4 February 2010 03:08 (fifteen years ago)

wha, why was the second picture censored? I swear that it was no more raunchy than the first.

― ^^potentially not true at all, sry^^ (Z S), Thursday, 4 February 2010 03:09 (fifteen years ago)

he could be your cousin

― ratface killah (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 4 February 2010 03:39 (fifteen years ago)

With the exception of the MySpace page of some dude in Idaho, I own the entire first page of Google results on my name.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 4 February 2010 04:16 (fifteen years ago)

not me:
http://i45.tinypic.com/2znz5as.jpg
http://i45.tinypic.com/jqgbid.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/zlcgop.jpg

― tube socks and a box of krispy kreme (los blue jeans), Thursday, 4 February 2010 05:17 (fifteen years ago)

I'm pretty much the only person with my name but GISing it just now produced this lovely sign from famed Austrian town Fucking which reads "Fucking" "Please not so fast". O_O. Why does this come up with my name?? WHY!?

http://www.echtenamen.de/material/grafiken/fucking.jpg

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Friday, 5 February 2010 04:07 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.lotusensemble.com/IMG_0162_2.JPG

none of these people are me.

Have got top spot on plain google search, for a show that happened a year or two ago. not much else.

― Department of Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification (S-), Friday, 5 February 2010 04:22 (fifteen years ago)

GIS me and you'll see a hunky black model who's too bashful to show off his dangly bits, not even when SafeSearch is off.

― 'I Was Bees,' Says Hiker Stung 300 Times (unregistered), Friday, 5 February 2010 04:32 (fifteen years ago)

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