March 15, 2008
Do It to Yourself?
Google yourself, that is?
I look through my sitemeter on a fairly regular basis, and I am pretty convinced that some people get here by Googling themselves. Or their neighbors are doing it. But anyway.
Was talking to the bf about this, and he says, "Everybody Googles themselves."
Is this true? Do you Google yourself?
I just got done Googling my own self, and my best known nom de plume. It's not something I normally do unless someone mentions they Googled me and then I have to go see what they saw...and that happens about once a decade thus far.
There was some interesting stuff. Like references to me/my writing in academic papers (ha! fools!) and the like. Plus there was the walk down memory lane as I relived some of my blogging highlights from years past.
My actual legal name is so common that I don't worry about what might show up on Google searches for me, and my best-known pen/nick name is slowly being encroached on by others using it online. But what about the rest of you?
Google yourself regularly?
Posted by Jenelle at March 15, 2008 12:04 PM | TrackBackYeah my legal name is common there are 1000's of me. But my online handle on the otherhand, there is only one me...
Posted by: pylorns at March 16, 2008 11:57 AMWell I did find out that I'm one of the fundraining leaders at www.active.com/donate/trek2008
Posted by: Pete at March 16, 2008 03:12 PMor raising
Posted by: Pete at March 16, 2008 03:12 PMI've googled my name before, but it just pulls up some unknown actor. I have to tweak it a little bit to get myself to show up.
Posted by: shank at March 17, 2008 06:59 AMI don't google myself at all...
On occasion, I visit your old haunts, along with others that I knew back in the old days when blogging was new and we were all young and foolish.
Posted by: Jack at March 19, 2008 12:06 AM