I have a username that I typically use on most forums. I google’d it tonight and came up with 52,400 results. I’m 99% positive they all belong to me. MSN has only 2960 and yahoo has 4790. How about you, have you ever searched your username or your real name?
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10 comments for “Vanity Search”
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I google my real name every once in a while. I’m proud to say that I personally take up the first 2-3 pages with just stuff about me. Never googled my username before. Thanks for the interesting idea.
May 31st, 2006 at 9:34 pm
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Rui
Unfortunatly my username only brings results for
Polyunsaturated fatty acids and other healthy stuff. 
ciao,
Rui
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Ryan
Personalized Results 1 - 10 of about 5,410 for ralxz. (0.53 seconds)
Yay
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Hmm, not so great for Weon on Google. I’m top but there is lots of imposters there too!
I see you went for the ads in the end - how’s it working out for you?
June 6th, 2006 at 2:17 am
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I used to be the most famous Olly on google. Apparently that’s not the case anymore.
June 6th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
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Number 1 in Google for Mike Empuria - with the description “Thank you. Mike Empuria is offline.” I still wear the T-Shirt ‘though.
June 7th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
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I’ve lost my ownership of “Dan Grossman” online. I used to rule that name. In the late 90s, a Google or AltaVista search would pull up 20 pages of results all having to do with me before anything else. Articles I had written that were syndicated all over the place, forum posts, etc.
Now I’ve lost most of that. I stopped writing regular articles years ago, and a senator by the same name appeared whose name appears online often. When I stopped using my personal domain for blogging in 2004, I also lost its first page listing for my name.
June 7th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
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Apparently I’m also a character in some novel, a football player and some British guy.
June 8th, 2006 at 5:33 pm