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#84341 11/12/02 08:13 PM
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well i finally did it...i self googled. I'm beside myself and as common as assholes.
2,580,000 sites, imagine if your name was something realy common....like...... John Smith


#84342 11/12/02 08:17 PM
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2,580,000 sites

44,600 for me. And if you discount those for the guy's got my name on backwards...


#84343 11/12/02 08:44 PM
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>2,580,000 sites

that sounds very high. how'd you do your google? if you just enter john smith without any quotes, you'll get hits on (for instance) "john anderson and carl smith". try the difference between that and "john smith", with the quotes. it's an order of magnitude...


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I got nothin'... and I ain't talkin' 'musick' or 'Andy Panda' either.


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I check in at "about 17,800." I knew about the 1957 Dragnet episode, and I knew about the Josephine Tey character, and I knew about the Max Shulman book, and I knew the name was fairly common, but this is ridiculous !

Guess I'll have to stick with wofahulicodoc if I want to remain anonymous.

#84346 11/13/02 12:14 AM
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I've done this before, but thought it might be fun to do it again.. none are me, by the way.

Apparently, among other things, I'm:

a graduate student at Cornell University who works for Richard Rand
a cabin crew manager at Singapore Airlines
an eleven-year-old with a liking for Pokemon
a reviewer for Dunhill ("White Spot Review" and "Baby's Bottom Review")
a reference from the Obstetrics Section of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society on someone's resume
a Singaporean doctor
an author
someone who's going for a Ph.D.
a baby who was born one year ago exactly (Nov. 12, 2001)
someone involved with the Institute of Quarrying (Hong Kong Branch)


Just for fun, I did my screen name. All the ones that show up on Google are me. Hopefully, my brother or sister won't decide to search on my screen name. (Flamsterette_X or Flamsterette) If I do Flamster, however, I end up with a couple of results from Pokemon Village.. plus a couple more in French.

Oh, and I check in at "about 71,400" with my real name. With my screen names and variants thereof, it's very narrow.. maybe 14 at the most. I've also done Googlism before, as well. Very freaky.

"Did you eat another dictionary?" -- what an online friend said to me once


"Did you eat another dictionary?" -- what an online friend said to me once
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