Late Night Googling
May. 18th, 2005 02:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onefixedstarI'm supposed to be engaged in coding interviews right now, so instead I ran a Google search on myself and all of my siblings. We have what appears to be (from my North American vantage point) a not-uncommon Japanese surname that becomes highly unusual when paired with our (extremely common) European given names. This has the advantage of ensuring that we'll never be hit with bills that actually belong to someone else, or be kept off a plane because our name closely resembles the name of someone on the no-fly list. It has the disadvantage of making us exceptionally easy to stalk, if someone were so inclined, and of making it impossible to pretend that the name on the no-fly list really refers to someone else. And finally, it means that we do ego searches on Google, every hit actually refers to us.
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semiotic_trader got the most hits with 34. Many of these were academic, including one that looked like his newly published article (yay!), although I'm not sure because the link didn't work. The rest were mainly leftover articles from his days as a university reporter and news editor, floating in various archives on the web, which is often not as ephemeral as we think.
I had the second largest number of hits with 22. Most of these were also academic, although there was one hit leftover from a second year co-op job. There's a lot of university service stuff, a couple of conference references, and my profile for the collaborative program I'm enrolled in. [Nothing, however, from my home department, which has yet to get around to putting grad student info on their badly outdated website, much to the frustration of myself, the department computer committee, and presumably a whole host of universities looking for promising new graduates to hire ;)] I also get three hits with Google Images that actually lead to pictures of me. That's kind of scary. Although, again, unusual name combination = easy stalking. Which is one of the reasons I rarely use my real name when I participate online. (There are lots more pictures of me floating out on the web on websites belonging to various friends, but they typically label the pictures only with my excessively popular first name, so it's not really a problem.)
steninja had two hits, both from the meeting minutes of a club she belonged to in first year.
The non-LJ sibling with no appropriate nickname got one hit, from an assignment he did as an undergraduate.
reiber has nothing, because he's apparently even more paranoid about putting his real name out there than I am.
semiotic_trader got the most hits with 34. Many of these were academic, including one that looked like his newly published article (yay!), although I'm not sure because the link didn't work. The rest were mainly leftover articles from his days as a university reporter and news editor, floating in various archives on the web, which is often not as ephemeral as we think.I had the second largest number of hits with 22. Most of these were also academic, although there was one hit leftover from a second year co-op job. There's a lot of university service stuff, a couple of conference references, and my profile for the collaborative program I'm enrolled in. [Nothing, however, from my home department, which has yet to get around to putting grad student info on their badly outdated website, much to the frustration of myself, the department computer committee, and presumably a whole host of universities looking for promising new graduates to hire ;)] I also get three hits with Google Images that actually lead to pictures of me. That's kind of scary. Although, again, unusual name combination = easy stalking. Which is one of the reasons I rarely use my real name when I participate online. (There are lots more pictures of me floating out on the web on websites belonging to various friends, but they typically label the pictures only with my excessively popular first name, so it's not really a problem.)
steninja had two hits, both from the meeting minutes of a club she belonged to in first year. The non-LJ sibling with no appropriate nickname got one hit, from an assignment he did as an undergraduate.
reiber has nothing, because he's apparently even more paranoid about putting his real name out there than I am.
