Oopsie, wasn't supposed to find that.

Rickford · Post by **Rickford** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:53 pm

Whilst googling my own name (as everybody does from time to time), I came across the most oddly unsettling thing I've seen on the internet for some time.

It was a webpage. Specifically, it was a webpage, with nothing really on it apart from my internet psuedonim: Rickford.

Then I noticed the domain name. It was my real first name, and my ex-girlfriend's surname.

Try googlin yer own name, and you too have the chance to find things you were never meant to see...

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:00 pm

Fortunately my real name is common enough that I don't have to worry too much about creepy internet stalkers!

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:08 pm

LibertyCabbage wrote:Fortunately my real name is common enough that I don't have to worry too much about creepy internet stalkers!

Ditto on that.

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:30 pm

no so for I

Mvmarcz · Post by **Mvmarcz** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:57 pm

a google of my name brings up pretty much nothing

The Mortician · Post by **The Mortician** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:50 pm

Just first and last ... mostly a police record prisioner on deathrow.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:56 pm

I am disappointed that this thread did not contain the further adventures of Stinky and Nanda's daughter.

As for a self-Google, nothing terribly unusual concerning my name. Although I was a bit surprised I showed up on a "recent alumni donor" page for my university before my comic (second page).

Aha, but if I use Tim instead of Timothy, I'm 4 of the first 5 links. The first is (surprise, surprise) timvolpe.com, a Chicago tech consultant.

Stinkywigfiddle · Post by **Stinkywigfiddle** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:59 pm

Daniel T Willingham is an associate professor of cognitive psychology and neuroscience at the University of Virginia.

He wrote a book called Cognition: The Thinking Animal. I would like to read it.

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:05 pm

I just end up with that "Did you mean (spelled wrong)" that ends up as a search for a gay porn star.

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:32 pm

Tim wrote:I am disappointed that this thread did not contain the further adventures of Stinky and Nanda's daughter.

Me too! But I wasn't going to say anything... I didn't wanna be, you know, "that guy."

Google Nanda and you get a lot on Siddhartha's brother, the first Buddhist.

Google my full name and there's a few things from my college years.

Laemkral · Post by **Laemkral** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:55 pm

I have found two main other mes. One is a Captain in either the Air Force or Marine Corp. I can't figure out from his uniform, but he's not Army because I already checked Army records. The other is big time computer person/video gamer.

I am like a mixing of the two, which is rather weird.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:04 pm

M2 wrote:a google of my name brings up pretty much nothing

Ditto. Though apparently there's someone with my real name teaching at some institute in Germany... or something... I can't really tell what the site says...

Snackbot · Post by **Snackbot** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:39 pm

According to Google I am at the same time a champion college football player and someone who wrote a dissertation on

"An Eigenvalue solution of the Helmholtz Equation with Arbitrary Two-Dimensional Boundaries using Finite element Methods with Application to Electromagnetic Waveguides".

I can only assume they are the same guy.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:40 pm

No one else has my name, so only I come up. I like googling friends though.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:52 pm

My name brings up astronomy

. The chances of me actually finding a real person, let alone myself are pretty low.

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:27 am

I'm pretty sure I'm the only person still living who has my name. At least that's what google suggests.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:06 am

Well, "Robby" is a Greek search engine

My full name brings up a porn story (Roberto Dicosta for those of you who are lonely and bored)

...holy shit... there's like a database of Dicostas
http://static.namesdatabase.com/names2/D/I/Dicosta.html

Roberto Alesandro, that's me! Who... Who's Hitler Dicosta?

My name also showed up on this page apparently

On 8/29/2005 9:49:00 PM, movielover77, wrote:
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I'm stopping now...

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:35 am

i have a fairly unique name, googling my name mostly results in stuff about my page or related to my page and stuff relating to my father, and then a bunch of stuff in serbian.

BeefotronX · Post by **BeefotronX** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:13 am

A google of my name brings up my stuff.

Mo · Post by Mo » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:30 am

Nanda wrote:
Tim wrote:I am disappointed that this thread did not contain the further adventures of Stinky and Nanda's daughter.
Me too!

...also, my name is unique alright, I pretty much only find stuff relating to my comics when googling it. Most of the entries refer to my dead and no longer available online comic though. Bugger.