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I'm Asking: What Turns Up When You Google Yourself?

Thu, 07/10/2008 - 11:01am by SavvySugar
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It's common knowledge that a potential employer will do a Google search for your name when they're considering you for a position, so it's a good idea to know what's out there for them to find.

My search doesn't come up with anything too mind blowing, but here are some highlights: there's a press release from when I was promoted at my previous job, my name appears on a list of my graduating college class, and if you dig really deep into the Google results I'm quoted at age 19 in a very random article in my campus's paper.

What comes up when you plug in your name? Anything that makes you giggle or blush?

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  • gab6784's picture
    gab6784
    1

    The first 2 things are my facebook profile and my flixster account thats it everything else is about other people that share my name.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • Taadie's picture
    Taadie
    2

    Not much. Some work internship work I did in college and my contact information from my current job.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • CaterpillarGirl's picture
    CaterpillarGirl
    3

    I get recipes i have posted on Allrecipes.com
    Article on my deployment to help out hurricane victims in the panhandle.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • zombielove's picture
    zombielove
    5

    screw that, im actually scared to see if anything comes up, i dunno why, but i am Smiling

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • WhiplashGirlchild's picture
    WhiplashGirlchild
    6

    My Facebook profile, my LinkedIn profile, my old band's MySpace page, a review of my blog, a few articles I've written for work, my public wish list on Amazon, a directory listing for my fashion blog, my Technorati profile, a press release I submitted for work, a few more blog listings, my old band's profile on PureVolume, and a press release I wrote for a friend's business a million years ago.

    In that order.

    There are a few people who share my first and last name, and the results have stuff about them as well. But that's all the stuff about me.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • amerynn's picture
    amerynn
    8

    There's an actress with my maiden name, as well as a bunch of other people. With my married name I get all of my profiles, but nothing incriminating! Most of it is for professional reasons, anyway.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • bananapancake84's picture
    bananapancake84
    9

    Only things about the actress who shares my name. Actually I'm happy about that- I don't need my facebook page popping up.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • Jude C's picture
    Jude C
    12

    There's this one really, really old LiveJournal that I really want to have removed from their site, but I don't remember my username or password or anything else to get them to do it Sad

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • javsmav's picture
    javsmav
    13

    my profile page on my firm's website, some race results, & the website for the journal I was on in law school.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • jasmint's picture
    jasmint
    15

    My personal website, my facebook profile, some student films and web projects I did in college (only half the stuff is still on the server, but I'm surprised even at that!), and the rest of the stuff that comes up doesn't pertain to me: adult entertainers, babies, dogs, etc.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • megln1022's picture
    megln1022
    16

    my facebook and linked in page. then everything else is all other people. actually i'm not even sure if those are my facebook and linked in or someone else with my name cause they are blocked at work so i can't tell! i'll have to check later. linked in i'm not worried about at all. facebook i think i have set to private but i also keep it clean anyways - nothing incriminating. so i'm pretty ok!

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • glam sugar's picture
    glam sugar
    17

    I can't find anything after 10 pages of results. There were 2 Facebook profiles but they weren't mine.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • jessy777's picture
    jessy777
    18

    I am mostly unGoogleable. However, if one searches just right you can a short article I wrote in the 5th grade about wanting to be a vet and save the environment that was published in our local paper. You can also find a Christmas Wish list from when I was 5 years old also published in the same paper. Other than that, I am unknown in cyberspace.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • SDTransplant's picture
    SDTransplant
    19

    My bio on my work's website is one of the first things that comes up. Another bio of when I was in grad school (my cohort was very small) also comes up early in the results. There are also some class projects from when I was an undergrad that come up, but I doubt those are still on their original servers (didn't check the links). It also tracked the few times I signed my high school's alumni guestbook. Some other stuff came up as well, but nothing incriminating!

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • heineken67's picture
    heineken67
    20

    A few years ago it just listed me - race results from high school and a blurb on my department website in college. Now it has those plus a scientific publication, but there's another person with my name finally. Unfortunately, the last time I looked she had a skanky Facebook picture (her profile is Google result #1).

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • MartiniLush's picture
    MartiniLush
    21

    Weird - lots of stuff that I didn't even know were out there! Some photos of my a friend posted on her website, my profiles, a quote from me that was included in a book....

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • Martini Rossi's picture
    Martini Rossi
    22

    My name, First and Last, is WAAAAYYY to common to know. There's over 9 mil results.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • chibarosa's picture
    chibarosa
    23

    Nothing! I too have a common, boring name, and I like it that way.

    When I was younger I wanted to marry a guy with a really exotic-sounding name, but now I'm really glad that I fell in love with a Jones.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • Kimpossible's picture
    Kimpossible
    24

    a whole bunch of stuff about another woman with the same name lol and then other minor stuff about many other women with the same name. I had to dig about 6 or 7 pages before I found something about me.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • bellaressa's picture
    bellaressa
    25

    Nothing about me but with the few have my name---they have interesting things about them.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • Liss's picture
    Liss
    26

    Apparantly there is a musician with the same name as me, but nothing actually about me comes up.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • jezebella's picture
    jezebella
    27

    haha wow... first thing that comes up are a few old pictures of me and a musician whose band now popular. they are posted on a website called buzznet which apparently allows lots of girls to give their in depth opinions on how "skanky" I look.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • CoralAmber's picture
    CoralAmber
    30

    A couple people who aren't me pop up first, and an article or two I wrote a year or two ago, but nothing distinguishing or incriminating. I don't often put my full name on anything that isn't professional, even my blog or social networking sites.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • single_m0m's picture
    single_m0m
    31

    Funny you should ask...I use my name - my full name - for business purposes and am pretty involved with online marketing.

    About a month ago I received an email - at my work account - from my boyfriend's wife. YEP - my boyfriend's WIFE! She must have Googled my name to find my email address at work.

    I'm sure you're wondering what's happened since - you'll have to do a little detective work and DM me directly (twitter) if you're dying to know.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • SussLW's picture
    SussLW
    32

    My names are all pretty common, but if I google my full name (first, maiden, married) the first hit is LinkedIn, and on page two appears my grandfather's obituary. I'm sure my Facebook profile would show up eventually, but it's not public. Searching either just first+maiden gets a ton of non-me hits and first+married as well, plus some author.

    I like it this way! I doubt there would be anything bad for a future employer to find even if I had a less common name.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • Silent Vamp's picture
    Silent Vamp
    33

    Almost nothing turns up. It's possible there's something out there, somewhere, but there's a writer and a painter who both share my name, so the search just drags up pages and pages of their stuff.

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  • linb's picture
    linb
    34

    My personal website pops up, my Myspace, and maybe a few other boring pages that pertain to me. But unfortunately I happen to share a name with a girl who spends her free time making amateur porn (I assume - I've never actually viewed any of the videos that pop up in the search).

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • sweetpeabrina's picture
    sweetpeabrina
    35

    The website for my RHA back in college, Dean's list for college, my job, something my mom posted on a geneaology website.
    However, when I do a search for "sweetpeabrina" a whole bunch of sugar sites come up!
    Laughing out loud

    12 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • faerymagick15's picture
    faerymagick15
    36

    some English soccer player, some music page profile on MySpace...neither of which is me!

    12 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • Black Velveteen's picture
    Black Velveteen
    37

    Apparently, there is a musician with the same name as me, but nothing actually about me comes up, thanks god

    12 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • imLissy's picture
    imLissy
    38

    hmm, well, someone with my name is donating an awful lot of money to politcal causes. I hope they're good.
    Let's see, we got facebook, my Dirty Wow Wow (my blankie from when I was a kid), Rutgers CS honors grad ceremony, the page I did for my web authoring class, my boyfriend's lastfm page, lol. Yeah, I don't use my real name much, but even if I did, I'm a good girl Sticking out tongue

    12 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • uptown_girl's picture
    uptown_girl
    39

    An actress, whose name you won't know. But she's starred in soap operas, guest-starred in CSI type shows, a medium part in a feature film, a mini-series, & Hallmark movies. She's very pretty!

    Nothing about ME!

    12 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • momaro82's picture
    momaro82
    40

    Apparently there are quite of bit of people with my name. One is a teacher, another is an actress and one is a doctor. I only show up three times. Two was when I made the president's list at college and the other is when I graduated from college.

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  • MA cw's picture
    MA cw
    41

    I have an incredibly common name, so not much about me comes up. I've met people who have tried to Google me and were very confused with some of the results that came up. There is one thing about me that comes up from a group I was involved with in college, but that's it until about 8 pages in.

    12 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • ally14's picture
    ally14
    42

    My aunt's pictures (she's a model), and a famous painter who had the same last name as me but pretty much nothing else.

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  • chatoyante's picture
    chatoyante
    43

    I have a bunch of archives from when I wrote for a paper, but there's another girl with my name who wrote for a teen magazine and so it looks like I wrote about politics, the environment...and acne. Great.

    Also there's a school named after a person with my name, in the South. Sweet!

    12 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • graduatedsqueaks's picture
    graduatedsqueaks
    45

    Back when I wrote on an MIT blog, the blog links were pretty high up on the list (because MIT gets a hefty boost in google results). Now you get an author/writer with my name...later you can find facebook and linkedin profiles. It used to be that you'd see me on my old company's website, and a few other sites, but I think some of the older stuff has been buried under newer sites.

    12 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • aanyanka's picture
    aanyanka
    47

    My name is very common so googling it results in nothing linked to me. However if you google my name along with my city and state my race times come up. But thats it.

    12 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • megln1022's picture
    megln1022
    48

    i checked out the face book link for my name and it wasn't even me! linked in was though