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  1. #1
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    You're So Vain: Your Real Name on Google

    Have you ever done a Google search for your real name? How high did you yourself place and how many different sites were you listed on in the first 10 pages??

    Myself I placed #4 and had 9 entries in the first 10 pages.
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    1,130,000 results for my name. My personal site used to be ranked 2nd which was pretty impressive but then I sort of gave up on it because I don't really need it anymore so my rank has all but gone, have not really looked where it is now.
    Steve

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    Just my first name... I get 2670 results. Although I don't have a website, I am mentioned in the 3rd result. And I am full of the 2nd and 3rd pages.

  4. #4
    6million results for my first name, wow. (eugene)
    ~150 for my full name << none are anything near about me.

    then again website will only open this may, so who knows.
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    27,900 results for my full name and 7,340,000 for Glen. Liked the definition part as well.


    Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


    glen

    n : (Scottish) a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)
    And now I know...LOL
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  6. #6
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    469,000 for my first name
    28 for last and first.
    My site being first and second.
    Forums are their too lol.
    few WHT posts lol

  7. #7
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    My name is not very common. So my personal site ( http://amarjyoti.com ) shows up first... :-D

    My full name has just 4 pages , but I guess that is all just me


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    129,000 for my full name. (one of my sites comes in second)
    I managed to find out that there was a domain in use for my fullname.com. The owner had just passed away, the name was expiring, and I grabbed it recently.
    Probably won't ever use it, but I have an addiction to buying names, you see.

  9. #9
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    3,920,000 for my first name
    699 for my first and last name
    10,400,000 for Tee
    61 for Master_tee
    27 for SpookyTee

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    My name is first on most search engines, not just Google, whether you search for my First Name, Last Name or both together.

    Results for my first name: 16,200, last name: 1,560.

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    16 in Google if I type my name within the " " [limits the search to include the full term]

    About 2120 if I dont include the name with in the " "

    And here is my very first digital image created by placing a real flower directly on a flatbed scanner.

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    I must have a really popular name! My full name got over 1mil returns, with my first name getting over 11mil, just my surname brings 6mil! Even with my middle name thrown in I get over 800,000 pages.
    Steve

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    Both names with " " (As in, it HAS to be me) , 12000.

    Mostly websites with security related news, since I used to find bugs/exploits in software (nothing major, but did make it bugtraq in several times), and since there are a lot of sites that mirror bugtraq, my name is there.

  14. #14
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    288,000 results for my full name
    My own site is second in the results
    Half the results on the first page are about me
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    Originally posted by Vortex-Steve
    I must have a really popular name! My full name got over 1mil returns, with my first name getting over 11mil, just my surname brings 6mil! Even with my middle name thrown in I get over 800,000 pages.

    maybe Google might want to buy your name out and redirect to their site

    lol

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    I show up one time.
    You are unique, just like everyone else.

  17. #17
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    I only have 21,100 results...but my last name is not common. Not a single one has anything to do with me....and I even own the .com of my name....just haven't put anything on it.

    <<Edit>>

    I take that back. I had to dig a little more but there are some press releases with my name on them that show up.

  18. #18
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    An author stole my name!

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    my last name is not common so when i do a search on my full name almost all of it seems to be me. it is actually more then i would like out there.
    Alvin

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    My full name: 101 results. 1st 4 are mine.
    7/10 on the first page are mine.

    And www.jonathanenns.com isnt even on the first page...I dont own the site.

    My first name: 8,250,000 results
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    My name without quotation marks yields 2,510 and the first two sites are my personal website with current contact information. A large majority of the first few are of me. For "Richard Brevig" there are 44 results, almost all of them are mine.

    Richard

  22. #22
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    16 for my name.

    None of them have anything to do with me.
    Don't like what I say? Ignore me.

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    there are 74 results for my first and last name.
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  24. #24
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    107,000 results for my name in quotes, and they aren't even about me, but the singer that has the exact same name.
    He arose!

  25. #25
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    This has gotta be one of the strangest WHT topics ever.

    Google has 166 entries for my full name. Every one of them is about me, results 1-166

    I guess using my middle initial has paid off

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