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Mar 13, 2008, 10:51 AM
 
If you google your name, what is the first picture that is shown. If it's you - wow! I get this charming man. He's so not me.

     
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Mar 13, 2008, 11:00 AM
 
Dad ?
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Mar 13, 2008, 11:04 AM
 
I get an article from a 2006 Time magazine about a rich 16 year-old who feels the pressure of being 16.

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Mar 13, 2008, 11:06 AM
 
Originally Posted by Andrew Stephens View Post
If you google your name, what is the first picture that is shown. If it's you - wow! I get this charming man. He's so not me.
He might not be you, but he looks like he could kick your a$$.

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Mar 13, 2008, 11:10 AM
 
Originally Posted by Eriamjh View Post
He might not be you, but he looks like he could kick your a$$.
I bet he could. But I'd trust him to be gentle with me.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 11:17 AM
 


*laughter ensues*
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Mar 13, 2008, 11:20 AM
 
This is what shows up when I google my name:



The 5th one actually is me, but.......

     
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Mar 13, 2008, 11:35 AM
 
How far down on Google do you have to go to find a page about yourself (using your name as the keywords)? I've got the fourth hit.

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Mar 13, 2008, 11:37 AM
 


For some reason my name translates into a picture of Korean War veterans.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 11:38 AM
 
1st hit. My blog is there.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 11:39 AM
 
Originally Posted by osiris View Post


For some reason my name translates into a picture of Korean War veterans.
The really tall dude in the back probably feels a bit isolated.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 11:41 AM
 
Originally Posted by Jawbone54 View Post
The really tall dude in the back probably feels a bit isolated.
That's why he's in the back, as punishment for being too tall. The bastard, how dare he.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 11:50 AM
 
I bet when you ride at night, your jacket is blinding when reflecting car lights.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 11:56 AM
 


Not me.

(Un?)fortunately, my picture didn't pop up on the first several pages of the Google image search.

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Mar 13, 2008, 12:14 PM
 
I get stuff I posted on my blog or site, mostly photos I've taken:

maury mccown - Google Image Search
"Everything's so clear to me now: I'm the keeper of the cheese and you're the lemon merchant. Get it? And he knows it.
That's why he's gonna kill us. So we got to beat it. Yeah. Before he let's loose the marmosets on us."
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Mar 13, 2008, 12:16 PM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
That dude on the top left is creeping me the **** out.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 12:20 PM
 
Originally Posted by Big Mac View Post
How far down on Google do you have to go to find a page about yourself (using your name as the keywords)? I've got the fourth hit.
First 9 are me. I am such a ham.
The rest are weird unrelated hits with peices of my name.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 12:43 PM
 
My website is first in the Google Web search and a photo of myself is first and second (same photo, same site though) in Google Images. Seventh and eighth in Google Imags are two photos of mine that are hosted on my domain.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 12:43 PM
 
I must suck. My name brings up absolutely nothing on a google image search.

My sig is 1 pixel too big.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 12:48 PM
 
Originally Posted by ort888 View Post
I must suck. My name brings up absolutely nothing on a google image search.
Why ?

Mine does neither, and I'm glad. It's NOT an achievement, it's very easy to do.

What's funny is that googling my name will bring up a pic of my sister and a pic of a friend of mine. LOL.

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Mar 13, 2008, 12:52 PM
 
Yeah, I don't get anything either (plus there was an astronaut with my name, so he gets all the attention). I'm all private like that though. Private and boring. That's me.

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Mar 13, 2008, 12:54 PM
 
First hit:

     
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Mar 13, 2008, 12:54 PM
 
Originally Posted by turtle777 View Post
Why ?

Mine does neither, and I'm glad. It's NOT an achievement, it's very easy to do.

What's funny is that googling my name will bring up a pic of my sister and a pic of a friend of mine. LOL.

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I don't know. It's weird, especially considering that my name is Plumpers Paradise.

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Mar 13, 2008, 01:19 PM
 
Awesome thread.

     
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Mar 13, 2008, 01:20 PM
 
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Mar 13, 2008, 01:24 PM
 
Thank you.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 01:24 PM
 
Nah, this thread is as lame as Dakar the Fourth.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 01:30 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth View Post
Nah, this thread is as lame as Dakar the Fourth.
Why you little poo-head. Your no Dakar!
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Mar 13, 2008, 01:31 PM
 
Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton View Post
Yeah, I don't get anything either (plus there was an astronaut with my name, so he gets all the attention). I'm all private like that though. Private and boring. That's me.

greg
I don't see the point of being "known" on the internet like that.

At some point, we probably won't be able to avoid it, but till then, I'd rather stay faceless...

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Mar 13, 2008, 01:38 PM
 
Originally Posted by turtle777 View Post
I don't see the point of being "known" on the internet like that.

At some point, we probably won't be able to avoid it, but till then, I'd rather stay faceless...

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It's not a personal decision. Depends on the line of work I suppose, for I've had no say in my real name being posted.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 01:51 PM
 
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Mar 13, 2008, 01:54 PM
 


The second result in the google image search is this chick (who shares my name) getting ****** by a black dude with a fake 18 inch apparatus.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 01:56 PM
 
Useless without... no, carry on.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 03:13 PM
 
The first hit is my great uncle:



The third is my 3rd cousin:



That's really cool, good thread.

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Mar 13, 2008, 03:55 PM
 
here's mine:
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 04:05 PM
 
It's not me, but it's a sweet 1st-pic, though.

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Mar 13, 2008, 04:28 PM
 
The resemblence is astounding...

     
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Mar 13, 2008, 04:31 PM
 
Originally Posted by Big Mac View Post
How far down on Google do you have to go to find a page about yourself (using your name as the keywords)? I've got the fourth hit.
I got about 30 pages in and gave up. I have a VERY common American name. More common that "Jim Smith".

Even a search for my full name brings up nothing by me as far as I can tell.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 04:42 PM
 
Originally Posted by Big Mac View Post
How far down on Google do you have to go to find a page about yourself (using your name as the keywords)? I've got the fourth hit.
Page one, hit one (and all the others -- though that one photo from The Dominion wasn't taken by me).

maury mccown - Google Search
"Everything's so clear to me now: I'm the keeper of the cheese and you're the lemon merchant. Get it? And he knows it.
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Mar 13, 2008, 04:51 PM
 
Love the Don King look, Maury.

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Mar 13, 2008, 04:54 PM
 
Mine:
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 05:17 PM
 
Is that your goat?
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Mar 13, 2008, 05:23 PM
 
The real issue in this thread involves digging up the before/after blog pictures of when Maury started on the Rogaine....



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Mar 13, 2008, 05:34 PM
 
Image search:

I get an entire page full of people that are not me, yet I know every single one of them. (There’s also a UFO and a Jackass poster, but I’m not sure where they come from)


Regular search:

Every hit on the first page is either my own site, files on my own site, profiles of mine on Internet forums, pictures I’ve taken, or something else that definitely refers to me. I have to go to the last hit on page two to find a page that’s not about me or my grandfather.


I guess I’m special that way.

(Or I have a very uncommon name)
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 05:35 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth View Post
That dude on the top left is creeping me the **** out.
In that case, that IS me.

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Mar 13, 2008, 05:36 PM
 
Originally Posted by LegendaryPinkOx View Post
Is that your goat?
No. That's not even me.
     
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Mar 13, 2008, 05:42 PM
 


I can't tell if its me or not.
     
 
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