I just did a Google-search on my own name for the first time. Wow.
I have a fairly common last name, but a pretty rare first name — I’ve only met one other person with the same first name in my life — so I didn’t expect very many results. And in the grand scheme of things, I suppose that 50,800 hits isn’t really that many, but it was something of a surprise anyway.
I was happy to see that I ranked #7 on the first page of entries. Or rather, Project Badger does, which is curious because my name isn’t anywhere on its page, and I haven’t been publicly associated with the project for several years.
Out of curiosity, I went through the first 100 entries, and discovered people with my name in many different professions:
- photographer
- artist
- lawyer
- singer/songwriter
- magician
- dentist
- marathon runner
- physical therapist
- martial artist
- college basketball player
- pastor
- physical therapist
- high-school football player
- chiropractor
- “senior technical account manager”
- bowling champion
- scientist
The magician had the most hits, apparently because he released a video that has a teaser on YouTube and a number of “torrents” (presumably of pirated copies).
I’ll have to take another look after I finish Project X, and see if that changes anything. 🙂
I got back in touch with you through Google, because I found you on the Project Badger website – which luckily had a picture at the time so I knew it was the right guy. Creepy, isn’t it?
You’re not the only one, a guy I’d known in Junior High school did too. 🙂
Sheesh… three auto-spam pingbacks on this one in the last few hours, all of which picked up on the word “surfing” and tried to inject links to ocean-surfing equipment. I’ve completely disabled pingbacks on this post.
Almost all pingbacks are spam nowadays….
Lovely. And my current anti-spam stuff doesn’t work on pingbacks. 🙁 Oh well, if it gets to be too much, I suppose I can always disable them completely.