How discoverable are you?

Can you be easily found on google ? how does this make you feel? do you want that to be stopped?

Page 6 of about 267,000 results (0.28 seconds)

thats for my name in quotes

too discoverable

oh thank god

buried at page 9, and the dude who wrote dragon pr0n appears to have disappeared off the Internet

Oh, I'm front and centre.

There are seemingly a million people with my real name, so in answer to the OP's questions: no / not bothered / doesn't affect me

It's generally OK with it.. My Belle & Sebastian past would preclude a political career, of course.

Oh I just copied the result that happened to be on the screen at the time, I am actually the first result on the first page.

I never used to be that discoverable, but I just did a search the other day and I'm like the 3rd result

I feel kinda weird about it idk

no / like batman / no

el hombre invisible

Not really, I don't show up until near the bottom of the second page. And even then it's not anything particularly personal or interesting.

Well there are tons of knockoffs in my case...

Last time I googled my name a few months ago, one of the top links was to what was claimed to be a nude video of someone who shares my not-terribly-common name. Thankfully that seems to have vanished or at least fallen down the search results - now, though, my Twitter is on the front page and my work email and phone number are on the second.

So - pretty discoverable, though thankfully googlers looking for me will no longer be able to see the genitals of one of my namesakes and think they belong to me.

I shared a name with a famous TV host of the 60s and was nigh undiscoverable. then I took my wife's last name, which is super rare, so if you know it you got me.

At work today some co-workers were checking out a new hire (that they hadn't met yet) on Linked In and thought it sweet that he'd updated his company info already. About 10 seconds later I heard one of them yell 'He's got a blog!! I've found his blog!'. So yeah I'm pretty glad I'm not that discoverable. Although I'd never do a blog with my real name.

having run a website for more than a fucking decade with my real name buried in the meta, and suchlike, it amazes me just how hard it is to find me.

however, i love the fact that if you search for me, and then hit images, the second image is one of sarah nixey advising that its not me :

http://thequietus.com/articles/10181-lana-del-rey-live-review

proper makes me chuckle that.

Results #3, #5 and #7, interspersed with a fashion retailer in Windsor, an NLP 'master practitioner', and a fictional character off of The Bill.

way down on page four. thank you, fairly common name.

f*ck. incorrect url :

http://thequietus.com/articles/00903-the-quietus-list-of-lists

ooops.

too many tQ tabs open ..

I am 5 of 10 of the results on the first page for my name, in quotes; and two of the first four image results. Doesn't bother me, nobody is looking for me.

The painter in NYC, the family practitioner in Idaho, the 16th century member of the English Parliament and a few other Crumps have me boxed out. I quit looking at page 12.

9 of the 10 results on the first page are for me. So fairly discoverable, I guess, but not for much more than Facebook and Twitter and random sites that pull names from Facebook and Twitter. It's actually fairly surprising to me that a number of people share my (slightly uniquely-spelled) name.

I got tired of clicking through the results. Surprised because I used to come in much higher. I must have fixed that somehow.

All but one hit on the first page of Google results. Mostly work stuff.

I've got a not totally rare but fairly uncommon name, but if anyone from school were to google me, they would think I was now the proud owner of a kitchen unit company.

Second result on Google is a link to writing stuff, third is my Twitter account, fifth is my Facebook so i'm easy to track down.

no / like batman / no

wtf

anyway the keyboard player from a rubbish 70s band is taking the flak for me

there's a real estate agent in Arizona that covers most of the results for my name, man is she busy

I'm an Australian film director, a wide receiver for the Steelers, a rock photographer, I manage an EPL team, I make custom motorcycle supplies, I'm a family practitioner, I'm a professor at UCLA, and I'm one of the two founders of Too Pure Records.

I didn't go into google deep enough to find the actual me.

"I've been to Google but I've never been to me"

:D

Are you all checking logged-out and via a proxy? Google will skew your results otherwise, in fact it will still do it based on your location.

Looking through http://hidemyass.com/, which I'm not sure is doing the job, 9 out of 10 are me. I do try and push my name online as I'm a freelancer though, and my name isn't very common.

mark e, despite what some SEO "gurus" may claim, Meta information is usually ignored by search engines because some SEO "gurus" abused it in the early days.

this could make for a good reverse-googling game. do i have enough knowledge of both NYC painters and 16th century members of parliament to find the common name??

mark e, despite what some SEO "gurus" may claim, Meta information is usually ignored by search engines because some SEO "gurus" abused it in the early days.

to be honest, i care not.
but its always interested me given that my site is very google friendly (i.e. 100% basic text), and yet, my site never appears when looking for me.
so i suspect you are correct in the reasoning ..

not even on page 5 so i stopped looking. if i put in "music" or something then it's in the first few links.

i'm the only person that's got my full name thanks to a rare first name. and upon googling it, i see that google image search has indexed all my ancient myspace pics and linked them to my name?? oh boy.

There are seemingly a million people with my real name, so in answer to the OP's questions: no / not bothered / doesn't affect me

This, plus the fact that a number of famous people have my name, meaning i couldn't find myself unless I went 100s of pages into a search. Hurray!

It looks like there are two, possibly three, people in the world with my real name. It also looks like anything interesting we do is kept to a pseudonym. We're all cool.

I like that below the animated gif of K1NG SH1T by ZS are some fake people with my name, a p[interest, some kind of lifestyle wife blog. I thought that gif would stop me form getting a job, but it didn't.

i'm the only person with my full name (married name), but all the results are either public fb posts (mostly to my friend's art page) or stuff related to the small press i run.

I am the only person with any of my name combos and am very easy to find. I guess it's pretty weird but I don't think about it too much.

I'm all over the first page of results, due to uncommon spelling of 1st name. Searching for my previous name (changed in 2003 when married to Mr. Jaq) brings up a pile of ancient archived stuff (1997 onward) - again due to v. uncommon name.

Someone who wanted to get back in touch found me recently from a reference I left for our cat-sitter!

Google results #1 through #6 and I'm fine with that. I'd rather own all those results than be mixed up with the high school Tennis star in New Jersey or the rednecky dude in Montana.

Page 6 of Google results. Extreme metal dude who shares my name has fallen to #3 on page 1 due to Linkedin creeps.

My family name is unusual -- everybody who has it is relatively close kin of mine, even though I don't know all of them -- and as far as I know I'm the only person ever to have my first and last name. So, yeah, every single Google result for my name is me.

ha I have one of those surnames where everyone with it is closely related too but there is STILL another person with my first and last name. lucky for me they have almost no internet presence so I'm #1

For a long long time searching "trayce" resulted in the very top hit being my fricking livejournal. People pay big money to achieve such aims, and I dont even want it! (nfi why its the case).

Now its knocked down to #2. My name seems common for some teenage boy who is big on youtube, and some band.

My full real name is the name of a scriptwriter known for a few Buffy eps, so I just dont come up trhat way at all (maybe buried 4 pages in is some of my published writing from college days).

you can find a bit of info about me from googling my name but i've been pretty good about keeping my internet aliases unlinked from my name over the years so you'd have to do some intentional digging to get any real dirt

A search on "aimless" in Google did not produce one reference to me in the first dozen pages. Being aimless, apparently I am hard to hit.

irl, i have given ilx the mystic key for discovering my real life name and, for the preternaturally persistant, enough clues to eventually discover my place of residence, which combined with my real name would unlock untold storehouses of data about me, mainly worthless. However, this key is buried in such overwhelming mounds of ilx detritus that I doubt any sane person would ever pursue me to the end of my rabbit hole.

without my middle name, not even slightly. with it, not til the third page where some bandcamp pages i'm mentioned on start turning up

Ha yes you have about the most googleproof name in existence, Marilyn ;P

you dudes are playing with fire

I used to be almost the entirety of the first couple of pages, now I'm the last result on the first page (being cited on someone else's blog from 2001). if yr not googling within Australia I bet it's much further back. Sad to see there's another gov't name me on the IMDB now though.

however, i love the fact that if you search for me, and then hit images, the second image is one of sarah nixey advising that its not me :

ha ha, another ilxor's display name is mis-represented by a pretty girl on that same page too

As far as I can tell I am the only person in the history of the world with my name, as my last name is incredibly uncommon in the US and my first name is incredibly uncommon in the country of my last name's origin (where it is still fairly unique).

Google result are all me, and sadly number 2 is something I posted on usenet in 1994 about how awesome it is to smoke weed and listen to Jane's Addiction. Good times.

^ lol, sympathy

disappointed to have just learnt that Johnny Fever is not a real johnny

I got confused when I learned your real name too sic! I forget how it came up. Someone saying you knew L and had been to my house but I only knew you as k1t.

Maybe it was L hrself ha.

Kit is short for Chr15t0ph3r tho! we talked govt names when we met, and I said call me what you like but k1t is fine irl

(it's fine here too obv, I do feel a bit bad that ppl have to refer to me by a visual half-joke)

i've always loved k1t for a name and it suits you.

♥

nice bit of k1t as the british would say

I do prefer k1t as well =) LOL its no suprise i dont recall u tellin me yr real name when we met tho I wd indubitably have been trashed.

regrettably my tumblr is the second result. for some reason my vimeo account, to which i uploaded one norman mclaren video like four years ago, is the fourth result. my name isn't terribly uncommon.

Very discoverable.

Aussie rules football player way more discoverable than me but a few things show up (flickr etc) round about page 2.

Top hit (without quotes) is my work website, which has work address, cv etc; first few google image results are work photos of me. This is what I'd want, so I'm fine with it.

My name's common enough that I don't show up in the first 10 pages of results.

The fact that both my surname and forename are also regular English words probably helps obscure me a bit as well.

Colonel 'Big' Poo

that sodding family fun centre!

Latham Green apartment reviews are amazing

i'm up a couple of times in the first two google pages but it's p generic fb/linkedin etc stuff and some of em may not even be me. not a common name but there seems to be three or four of us all similarily active so it's a general mishmash