How Notorious Are You?
By Rummuser. Filed in Humor, People |Tags: Conrad Hake, Google, Maynard, Millard Engle, Notoriety
NOTORIETY
I am grateful to Mitch for inspiring me to write this post. His original post can be seen here. I wonder if Mitch has a Dr. before his name! Comments Mitch?
I was intrigued and I googled my name and was stunned at the amount of stuff there is about me in the internet. There are 234 entries that the search found and I am also advised that many more entries of similar nature to those shown have not been listed!
Quite whether I should be flattered or amazed or worried is something that is now occupying my attention.
Just for a lark, and to see what will happen, I googled for our friend Maynard, and I find that there are many similar sounding entries but not quite the same number as I had when I searched for my name. I concluded that since Maynard does not blog, he is not as notorious as I am and decided to test another name. Yes, you guessed it, Conrad. Now this is a surprise with 640 entries, Conrad easily beats me on the notoriety race, but the problem is that there are too many Conrads and Hakes, not quite our own featuring in there. If you really want to know how notorious Conrad is, please do not miss using the link that I have provided here for him. You will be in for a big surprise!
My name is unusual with its peculiar spelling of the surname, and the combination of first and surnames also being very unusual. So Google is more focused in my case.
It was fun on a lazy Sunday afternoon to do this. May be you should too.
Sunday, October 11th 2009 at 19:35 |
Hi Rummuser,
Glad to have given you the inspiration to give it a shot, and good to see that your name is out there in some fashion. Nothing bad, I’m assuming. The funny thing is that if I were going to start all over I’d be shooting for the same type of thing, but wanting to control how I was perceived a bit differently. In other words, I’m out there, but not really targeted, which probably controls why I’m not busier than I am.
Still, wasn’t it a lot of fun?
Rummuser Reply:
October 11th, 2009 at 21:22
@Mitch: You bet!
Sunday, October 11th 2009 at 21:41 |
ACtually, this was a little frightening for me. Not only did my name come up, but the city I live in, my husband’s name, and one of my children’s names! I have had some things published, and those came up too, but I would expect that. But to see “Find Delirious in ______California” was kind of scary!
Rummuser Reply:
October 12th, 2009 at 16:57
Yes, if you try to find a map of your house’s location, you will find it more scary!
Monday, October 12th 2009 at 03:57 |
Ramana did you look for me?
Results 1 – 10 of about 31,100 for Grannymar. (0.23 seconds) Some people must have nothing to do!
Rummuser Reply:
October 12th, 2009 at 16:53
Gentlemen do not talk about what they find about ladies on the net!
Grannymar Reply:
October 12th, 2009 at 18:46
Was it that bad?
Rummuser Reply:
October 12th, 2009 at 20:16
Mum is the word. You better find out yourself! I do not want to risk dozens of toyboys chasing me.
Monday, October 12th 2009 at 14:18 |
You won’t find anything about me (apart from the blog) – I’m a complete non-entity as far as the world’s concerned. Jenny has plenty of entries though as she’s an academic expert (ha!) on housing and urban regeneration. Well, she’s a doctor anyway….
Rummuser Reply:
October 12th, 2009 at 16:50
Behind every non-entity, there is a successful woman!
Tuesday, October 13th 2009 at 12:12 |
I googled myself. My facebook page came up. I googled myself as gaelikaa. Pages of stuff from my blogs came up.
Rummuser Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 16:07
It was fun doing it though, was it not?