You Never Asked For It, I's Very Silly, But...It's the ILX Google Popularity Contest!

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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)

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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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