Don't commit a crime! - DPChallenge Forums

04/01/2006 12:57:23 PM · #1

Recently when a major crime is committed and it hits the national news, the first thing the journalists do is search the Internet for information about those involved. Then EVERYTHING found is used even if it has to be taken out of context to be sensationalized.

This morning I did a Google search and was amazed to learn that every comment we make and every challenge we enter here, every photo and comment those of us who have Blogger PaD's make, are easilly accessed from Google.

Between my photography, genealogy and my job there are 13,000+ links to my name!

Do a search for your name or user name. On my search, at the bottom of the 3rd page there was this statement:

"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 30 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included"

It includes a link to click and when you do, your online life flashes before your eyes!

My search was limited to 100 pages and 1000 links, but the title said there were over 13,000 links.

Imagine if one of us committed a major crime. Nancy Grace would have a field day!!!

So how many links do you have?

Samsung Galaxy S21, S21+, S21 Ultra

04/01/2006 01:04:38 PM · #2

Whoa and I'm a light weight. I just found 45,600 for bear_music

Azrifel

Nikon Coolpix P340

04/01/2006 01:08:47 PM · #3

31,000 for Azrifel (I am the only one with this nick)

A lousy 300 something for Sander Admiraal and there are more of me it appears. :)

JCDean

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Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

04/01/2006 01:31:19 PM · #4

Wow, what a surprise I got!

I have googled my name before but decided what the heck, its been a while.

I have a fairly unique last name so I thought all of the "Jason Fredin" hits would be for me.

My counterpart apparently is the chair for marketing at The Twin Cities GLBT Community Chorus. Kinda eerie cause I am a marketing grad.

And also surpised to see photo © Jason Fredin. Checked it out and it was him too.

Bear_Music

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

04/01/2006 01:41:19 PM · #5

Originally posted by Faye Pekas:

Whoa and I'm a light weight. I just found 45,600 for bear_music

I'm all over the place :-) Not just photography, but also at my game site and on poetry boards, though I changed to Robt_Ward for those a while back...

Robt.

robs

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Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

04/01/2006 02:19:41 PM · #6

See what you need is a non-unique user name :-) I find a bazzodal hits on my user name since it's a common word and I like it that way :)

sfalice

Canon PowerShot SX60 HS

04/01/2006 02:25:48 PM · #7

And when you enter your user name and click on Google Images, all your portfolio flashes into view. An easy way to bore your friends and relatives silly!

riolobo

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

04/01/2006 02:59:16 PM · #8

All I get with my username in Google Images is four pages of the John Wayne film of the same name :-(

paddles

Pentax K10D

Pentax FA 50mm f/1.4 AF

04/01/2006 05:59:35 PM · #9

There are advantages to having a common name... there are so many of "me" just in Sydney (including two others in the organistion I'm currently working for!) that one would have to spend some investigative effort filtering through to see which ones were and weren't me. And since one of the other people sharing my name was convicted of murder in a high profile case (actual target was the then Indian Prime Minister) and then overturned in a high-profile appeal, I can blame anything bad on one of the other ones. :)

alfresco

Nikon D700

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04/01/2006 06:04:19 PM · #10

You looking at doing a bank heist Faye?!? And have bear as the getaway driver?!?!?!

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Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

04/01/2006 06:06:07 PM · #11

There's another Laurie Black...she's a pro photog in Seattle. There's also a Laurie Black who is a food critic on the west coast. Another Laurie Black is a mixed media artist (using mostly watercolor and textile/fiber art), and yet another is the director of a national heritage park. Sheesh.

Those of you who know me best can honestly say, however, that there is really only ONE Laurie Black. ;)

edit: Google finds 15,300,000 hits for Laurie Black, and 64,500 for laurielblack. That one is mine alone. ;)

Message edited by author 2006-04-01 18:07:07.

lynnesite

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04/01/2006 06:06:11 PM · #12

43,400. Whoa. Catching up to Bear!

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04/01/2006 06:10:21 PM · #13

Originally posted by alfresco:

You looking at doing a bank heist Faye?!? And have bear as the getaway driver?!?!?!

shhhhhhhhh

Ristyz

Apple iPhone 12 Pro

04/01/2006 10:44:13 PM · #14

About 38,000 for my proper name

karmat

Apple iPhone 7

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM

04/01/2006 11:22:29 PM · #15

Something like 85,300 for my user name, althougth most of them aren't in English so I don't think they are *connected* with me. Even on the images page, it is not my pictures.

Something like 370ish for my *real* name.

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

04/01/2006 11:26:12 PM · #16

Originally posted by Faye Pekas:

I've been working for a private investigation company for over two years now and one of the first things we do for nearly every case is hit Google. You'd be amazed what you can find out there that doesn't even need sensationalizing. :)

wavelength

Nikon D300

04/01/2006 11:38:10 PM · #17

well, obviously, it's be pretty hard to parse my nick out of a google search. funny how many scientific articles you get.. :D

I also happen the share the exact same name as an AP writer, who just happens to live and work in Kansas City. The very same suburb in which I grew up, in fact. How many Stephen Brisendine's could there be in the world?? I know of four or five so far...

So I pretty much never comes up in probably any google search that you would ever run on me, but my name sure will.

GentleSoul

Canon EOS-30D

Tamron 70-180mm F/2.8 Di III VXD

04/01/2006 11:42:41 PM · #18

Wow - what an odd coincidence! I was thinking about this exactly this topic this morning, but in a slightly different context (as I am not planning on committing any crimes. ;)

Recently, I began taking classes at a Shiatsu school, and have been enjoying it quite a bit. I'm planning on completing the program, and then most likely going on to become an instructor. Anyway, to help me with my studies, I purchased a beautiful set of acupuncture charts from Austrailia. I read about them on a Shiatsu discussion board. They just came into production, and they really are the most beautifully done charts I have ever seen. I would love to write a comment on the discussion board stating this to encourage others to buy them. HOWEVER, here's where things get complicated, at least in my own mind. :) I have a very unique name. If you search for my name on Google, everything that's associated with my name is mine. If I do go on to become an instructor for the Shiatsu school I'm studying at, my name will without a doubt be online associated with the school. However, if I give a positive review to this acupuncture chart on the Shiatsu discussion board, once I become directly affiliated with the school online, it might seem like the school (and my teacher, the head of the school, who is very well known and respected in the Shiatsu world) is also giving a "thumbs up" on these charts. And for all I know, I might show these charts to my teacher and he might say that they're not at all accurate or good to study from.

So... do I write the positive review, thanking the folks who spent so much time and money producing these charts for doing so, and risk making it seem like an endorsement from my teacher and school a few years from now simply by my association with them? Or do I say nothing? Or do I write something positive under a fictitious, common name that isn't traceable to anyone? :)

Yeah, I know... I'm really overthinking things here. :) But maybe not... Think about this for a moment. If you had such a unique name that you were the ONLY one with that name online (and by that, I mean real name, not username - my username isn't at all unique), would you feel a need to be more careful about what you posted online? And, would you feel that your unique name was a blessing or a curse?

Most normal 30-something's would be out on a Saturday night having fun someplace. I'm sitting here pondering the far off in the distance ramifications of online postings... Perhaps I should at least grab a beer from the fridge. :) (Ohhhh... should I have said that??? ;)

Liz

MadMan2k

Sony Alpha a6400

04/02/2006 12:11:56 AM · #19

There seems to be another person using my username, but for my real name there's loads of results for profiles on places I don't visit anymore, or even a page about spyware that I wrote a couple years ago...

At least my profile here, at bikeforums, and my blogger profile are pretty high up, so people can find me without too much trouble :P

Aryella

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04/02/2006 12:20:12 AM · #20

I just did a google for my real name of Kirsty Smith....well MY ounterpart is a well known porn star model....beat that haha

Man_Called_Horse

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

04/02/2006 12:24:22 AM · #21

Googled my given name, and I am a controversial catholic church writer born 1818 and died in Surbiton, Surrey Dec.14, 1877.

His published works are: "Notes on the Episcopal Polity of the Holy Catholic Church" (1844); "Twenty-two Reasons for Entering the Catholic Church" (1846); "Letter to the Rev. Cecil Wray, M.A." (1846); "Christianity in China" (1858); "Tabulated Reports on Roman Catholic Schools inspected in the South and East of England" (1859); "Christian Missions, their Agents, their Method and their Results" (1862; 1863; New York, 1865; London, 1865. Translated into French and German); "Catholic Missions in Southern India to 1865" (1865, written in conjunction with the Rev. W. Strickland, S.J.); "Order and Chaos, a Lecture delivered at Baltimore" (1869); "My Clerical Friends and their Relation to Modern Thought" (1873); "Church Defence: Report of a Conference on the Present Dangers of the Church" (1873); "Protestant Journalism" (1874); "Anglicans of the Day" (1875).

But nothing on photography.

I need a drink.

GeneralE

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04/02/2006 12:57:41 AM · #22

Originally posted by American_Horse:

Googled my given name, and I am a controversial catholic church writer born 1818 and died in Surbiton, Surrey Dec.14, 1877 ...

I need a drink.

This Day in 2006 : )

KiwiShotz

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04/02/2006 03:49:36 AM · #23

Eeek!@ 102,000 hits on me. Time I left town :)