Posted on 05/29/2005 12:02:15 PM PDT by martin_fierro
Yeah, we've all read about how far-reaching the Google internet search engine is.
But try Googling your FR screen name as an idle exercise.
If you're anything like me (this IS a Vanity Post, after all), you'll be surprised by:
Mine asked "Did you mean Pass Fire?". Now's there's a burning question!!LOL
Found a thread on an HBO forum for Deadwood where someone thinks my user name is an old figure of speech...but I think I invented it. I have used it on the Command Post, several other minor boards and a blog of my own...maybe I am starting to have an impact on the blogsphere....
somehow, I doubt it. But it's fun to check once in awhile. The weirdest stuff is when you show up on one of those strange indexing sites...where I show up on a NCCB index made by some strange third party...and one that takes snippets of blogs and plasters adult ads all around them.
I made the Junk Blog home page!!!! My comment about David Rosen being aquitted listed on the list of the paranoid, paranoider, paranoidest.
My comment- "So, someone didn't want to end up 6 feet under, I suppose"
They clearly underestimate the Clintons.
It's an old saying.
heheheheheh
maybe so...wouldn't be the first time I reinvented something that's been around for ages....good ideas repeat themselves...but it is always fun to google these things, say, once a quarter or so.
Did you just have your Nathan R. Johnson moment when he found his name in the phone book?
intersting....not many of my FR threads came up, I wonder why Google displays the FR posts it does. I saw a bunch of stuff for a Notre Dame message board I used to post on a couple years ago using the same handle. And there are a couple of other sassboxes out there on other sites.
lol
(Results 1 - 10 of about 19,900,000 for lol)
He found his special purpose!
Let me just say that there are some, um, odd people using this name on other boards.
A quick self-Google once a day to guard your reputation
By Daniel Dasey, Consumer Reporter
May 23, 2004
The Sun-Herald
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It used to be a clandestine act carried out at the computer when no one else was watching, but "self-Googling" - searching for your own name on the internet - has gained social acceptance, with academics and legal experts saying the practice is healthy and fast becoming indispensable.
American researcher Alexander Halavais last month urged all internet users to keep tabs on what was being posted about them on the net, saying it was a 21st-century form of brand management.
The comments sparked an instant fad in the US, with people who consulted search engines surprised to discover they were mentioned on websites ranging from sporting team homepages to business directories.
An Australian internet legal expert last week urged Australians to follow suit, saying it was important for people to keep track of their web presence and know what others were learning about them.
"It's becoming common and if you're not using it you're missing out," John Swinson of Mallesons Stephen Jaques said.
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Professor Halavais, a communications professor at Buffalo University, attracted media attention with his call in April for universal self-Googling.
While Googling refers to a specific search engine - Google - it has taken on a popular generic meaning of searching the internet.
"Given that everyone from potential employers to potential mates is likely to be Googling you, you should have a good idea of what they will find," Professor Halavais said.
He said people who conducted searches on their names sometimes uncovered unpleasant surprises.
One university graduate was forced to remove online criticism he had made of a company when he landed a job with another firm with links to it.
In the past, net users have discovered their names on hate sites operated by former partners.
Mr Swinson said self-Googling was becoming more popular as the internet emerged as a way of screening potential love and business partners.
He said his company had recently unearthed an unsavoury side to a potential business partner using search engines and there were similar benefits for people seeking romance.
"If you are using an internet dating service to find your dates you may as well use the internet to find the dirt on the people you're dating," he said.
Mr Swinson said people who discovered they had been slandered on a website in Australia had a right to demand the material be removed.
"But if it's not defamation - breach of privacy or just something you find offensive - then the law in Australia is very uncertain there."
Well, my name drew about 44,000 hits, martin.
A nice trip down memory lane reading old posts here and elsewhere.
Jack.
Apparently, Dashing Dasher was a Miniature Pinscher, a Dauchshund and a race horse.
Oy Vey!
Ohhh!
Well mine is...."exploring legends and folklore"...what else!
I don't get many hits, but one odd hit that comes up is:
humor michael jackson pic
... your house? I'd post a pic if I could, she's the sweetest ... 30 PM PDT by exDemMom (Michael Jackson for Governor!) [ Post Reply | ... ...
www.popular-men.com/michael-jackson/ humor-michael-jackson-pic.html - 39k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages
I can only wonder.
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