Googled my name, how depressing.

[MostlyLurks]

My real name, that is. Not only does the real me actually appear only once, but there a lot of my nominative doppelgangers doing a lot more impressive stuff with their time than I am. Sigh.

[Deja Q]

1. Piffle! Everybody knows about them, so therefore they are boring.

In other words, you're more worth knowing. :hug: :grouphug:

[MostlyLurks]

4. But since I am invisiGoogle, I am unknowable ;)

Hey dig me - I think I just invented a new word:

InvisiGoogle: a person, place or thing whose existence is unknown to Google.

[Garage Queen]

14. I'm an InvisiGoogle too.

My secret? I don't have a home phone, only a cellular. :7

[MostlyLurks]

16. Hey, me too! Are you actually me?

[Enraged_Ape]

2. HA HA! Loser!

I've done the exact same thing, and had the exact same experience you did, except that I don't show up ONCE! I guess that makes me the ultimate loser!

[MostlyLurks]

10. Perhaps I shall make my name...

BY MURDERING YOU, foul rubber of salt in a wound.

But I probably wouldn't get any press unless you're:
a) a young white childhood beauty pageant contestant
b) a young pregnant woman (preferrably neither black nor poor)
c) preferrably A and B

So let me know if either of those is true, and I'll make us both famous. ;) Kidding, of course.

[Lavender Brown]

3. The only result I get is for an actress in England, not me

And it's weird, because I have an uncommon, Italian name. :shrug:

[StopTheMorans]

5. Brown doesn't sound uncommon, or Italian

:shrug: :evilgrin:

[Lavender Brown]

9. Hehe

Silly :)

[laheina]

11. I have an English actress too.

and I thought that I had a unique name, until I got the internets.

[MostlyLurks]

13. Wish I had an English actress. n/t

[laheina]

52. Although...

prolly in a way different from the way I mean. :)

[XNASA]

6. You think you've got it bad.

Check out what happens when my name is googled...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103850/

[MostlyLurks]

25. Yeah, but you can actually claim to be a rocket scientist.

[XNASA]

26. No I can't.

Not everyone who works/worked there is a scientist.

Even they need some people to work in the cafeteria and some people to trim the hedges.

Myself, I'm a TV engineer.

But...you could buy a t-shirt in the souvenir shop that read, "Why yes, as a matter of fact, I AM a rocket scientist."

[MostlyLurks]

29. But you could CLAIM to be a rocket scientist.

The claim is all that matters.

And then you could tell them you installed cable on the space shuttle, drop a few "Yeah, we had a hard time integrating the X22 sim into the capulus module, but then I thought 'Why not bypass the cafernulous entirely and transmit directly into the fromenculavalvulator and presto - the astronauts had Animal Planet!'"

They'd be all like "Whoa" and shit.

[XNASA]

51. Sure I can. How do you think..........

I got the cushy job I have now?

[Magrittes Pipe]

42. Trim the Hedges?

:scared:

[Feathered Fish]

7. Every member of my family turns up

except for me. But that's okay.

[fluffernutter]

8. don't be depressed. you have a great username.

welcome :hi:

[curse10]

12. Everything that comes up with my name is me

I'm the only one with my name, that I know of.

[MostlyLurks]

15. That's because parents steer clear of naming their kids "Curse"

[curse10]

19. LoL- it's actually Kirsten, but curse is my nickname

:P

[Longgrain]

17. On the plus side

I've written over twenty screen plays...on the down side I died in 2003.

[MostlyLurks]

20. You have to take the good with the bad.

[carolinayellowdog]

18. 3030 hits, all mine

even obscure authors do pretty well in google hits

[MostlyLurks]

22. Well la de fricking da!

[Longgrain]

23. Here I am....

It's a fairly common name so I end up with over 2000 matches but this guy seems to be the most frequently mentioned...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0832099/

Apparently I also wrote the play "1776"

[yvr girl]

32. 6 hits - 3 are me

The spelling of my last name is fairly uncommon.

[NewJeffCT]

41. wow, I had over 4,500 hits, couldn't find any for me, though.

Most of the hits were just my last name. There is a concert hall in Cleveland with my last name on it, and a woman with my last name got a prestigious scholarship to my alma mater.

[City of Mills]

21. There are two other 'Me's

One ME is a member of an improv troup out of the midwest, and the other ME is a famous Canadian skier. Sounds like WAY more fun than what I do!

[MostlyLurks]

24. What improv troupe? Seriously...I used to do improv in the Midwest.

[City of Mills]

28. I think they're called "Mission Improvable"

Pretty catchy :-)

[MostlyLurks]

30. Yeah, that's pretty good. n/t

[vinnievin777]

27. That'll change

and don't forget us when you are famous.

Vinnie Vin
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1932852344/qid=1086103239/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-2852423-2023849?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

http://www.vinnievin.com

[MostlyLurks]

38. Vinnie, what do you know that I don't? n/t

[vinnievin777]

53. if I answer I don't know

then will you think that we equally don't know or I am stupid because there are a lot of things you know.



Vinnie Vin
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1932852344/qid=1086103239/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-2852423-2023849?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

http://www.vinnievin.com

[Z_I_Peevey]

31. I'm a one-hit Google wonder

The real me shows up one time only, referenced in somebody's thesis. And the facts are wrong, wrong, wrong.

[MostlyLurks]

33. Let me get this straight.

Somebody else (i.e. not you) referenced you in their thesis (i.e. a very long paper) but got the facts about your existence incorrect? Does this mean you've just proven your own nonexistence? If so, you may be in line for some awards or something - science-y awards and such. And the requisite scantily-clad science babes and/or science hunks.

[Z_I_Peevey]

34. You may have a point there

But this person referenced something I had done and the facts about my work were wrong. However, the 'facts' reinforced her premise.

Pisses me off.

[MostlyLurks]

35. See, this is what I mean

You actually had "work" that another person could cite in an attempt (however poorly made and executed) to further her own work. So the fact that your name was out there to be quoted in the first place makes me feel even worse. What work have I to be incorrectly cited? I'd given anything to be incorrectly cited. ;)

[Debi]

37. See post #10...

You know what needs to be done. :evilgrin:

[Left Is Write]

36. My namesakes are more impressive than I am also.

Both my married name and my maiden name.

[alarimer]

39. one of mine

Attended the GOP convention as a delegate from Wyoming. I am hereby changing my name.

[MostlyLurks]

40. Now that sucks. You win the thread.

[micrometer_50]

43. one of my doppelgangers

was a front man for the mob in Vegas

[MostlyLurks]

44. Very cool. Start dropping your name around the Strip.

You'll have bagmen dropping $100 chips at your feet. Either that or you'll get whacked. But it might be worth the risk.

[micrometer_50]

48. or I might get

wacked with a bag of $100 chips, man.

[Cadence]

45. My name doesn't even come up on google.

How can I be sure I exist?

[MostlyLurks]

49. Can you see me waving to you? If not...

Then one of us does not exist. My guess is you, because I can see me waving at you just fine, so I must exist. Can you see yourself not seeing me? That would be a way of knowing or not if you are or not.

[billyskank]

46. If I google my real name, I find that I was killed in Baghdad

There was a reporter with the exact same name as me.

[KDLarsen]

47. My full name produces an amazing 77 results..

.. and all of them are related to me :D

[MostlyLurks]

50. My first and surname produces over 1000...

And none of them are related to me (as far as I know). I am one member of a great rising tide of me who shall soon conquer the world.