google check

[cellio]

It's good to google yourself occasionally. Currently, the first 100 hits I get are mostly my home page, pages about Joy and Jealousy (a book I co-wrote on 15th-century Italian dance), lots of benign SCA stuff, filk, folk music, and employment (company directories and the like).

One of the links to the dance book is in Cyrillic, oddly enough, so I now know one way to transliterate my name into that character set. I wonder if it's a phonetic transliteration and, if so, how the author thinks my last name is pronounced.

There's a link to a page of credits for Common Lisp: The Language. (I was an undergrad assistant, and can actually point to some of my words in the finished book.) There's also a link to a recipe that an SCA friend named after me, which I didn't realize he had published with that name until more recently.

It's not until link #54 that you get the first reference to a lawsuit I was involved in some years back, and that's for the award of attorneys' fees and costs, which means no one can reasonably claim it was a frivolous suit. (Oddly, I don't recognize the site that archived that.) Hints that this journal exists start showing up in the 40s, but you'd have to already know about LJ to recognize them. (The journal itself isn't indexed, but that doesn't prevent interest lists and the userinfo page from showing up.)

All in all, I think potential stalkers would get bored. Which is the correct outcome. :-)

Update: This entry was inspired by this article, which was pointed out by browngirl. (Nothing new here for me, but it's a good summary/overview.)

Comments

[geekosaur]

There aren't enough hours in the day for some of us to check our Google hits. :)

[sk4p.livejournal.com]

Googling "monica cellio" (but without the quotes, so they could come in either order and not together) gives 982 pages. Googling "shawn knight" without the quotes gives 108,000+.

Given this, I'm kinda delighted that the first two hits are indeed me. :)

[lyev.livejournal.com]

I'd be curious what your name is in Cyrillic, and whether they used the hard "k" or the soft "ch" in "Cellio"

[tangerinpenguin.livejournal.com]

In my case, both "Chris Newell" and "Christopher Newell" are common enough names that I don't even show up for the first several screens, although there are some plausible false positives if, say, you knew me in high school but lost track.

In particular, there's a really chatty realtor in Milton, Ontario that accounts for probably half of the hits in the first two or three pages, which is just fine by me (although at one point several years ago, I started getting a whole bunch of "put your realty on-line" or "subscribe to our realtor e-newsletter" spam that I believe was meant for him :-))

[goljerp]

Hmm... searching on my name (in quotes) there are about 330 results. However, there are several people with my name who do things vaguely related to what I do, so although only one of the top 10 hits is me, several of them could be me. Hmm... actually, I show up quite a few times as a contributor to a Virus FAQ, although I made my contribution years and years ago. Does this make me a virus expert of long standing?