The woman who produced the documentary had Googled her name. Haven't we all Googled our name. She found a number of people with the same name but found one person who was about the same age. She did some research and contacted the person who had her name and found some amazing information. There were many similarities. They were the same age. They were both artists. So they talked on the documentary and made other discoveries as they went along.
It used to be in the"olden days" that you rarely met anybody with the same name. With the Internet we just google and find all kinds of people with the same name. . We are usually just looking to find ourselves.
I have googled before and I find the page with all the photos of people with my name. I would look at the first page and I'm not there so I don't look any further. Today I discovered that I could find many pages with photos of people who have the same name as I have. And guess what? After about 500 photos, I found myself. The photo was a surprise as it was one where I presenting an award to someone.
Now there were some pretty scary dudes who have the same name as I have.
Forty years ago there was a kid in the Middle School next to our school who had the same name as I have. He was a handsome popular kid. He had girls hanging on him all over the place. I was kind of popular too as girls looked up the wrong phone number and phoned me.
So I learned a new term ...twin names and found that I'm a way down in ranking as far as google is concerned. I didn't check to see how many names were after mine.
Now that I think about it could there be triplet names?
So do you google your name from time to time? Do you sometimes make some interesting discoveries?
pretty interesting. i've not googled my name in quite a few years. maybe i should. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat I was looking at were the images.
DeleteNo I never have but I no doubt will now.
ReplyDeleteI must admit I have never googled my name, but I will have a look now.
ReplyDeleteCheck the images.
DeleteI ran into it when I was younger. I was going door to door shoveling snow and a lady with similar spelling laughed and told me she had heard from a few girls. I was depressed she let them go so quickly.
ReplyDeleteAt least she could have steered them your way!
DeleteWith my "regular" name of Jan, nothing interesting comes up, but DJan is pretty singular. You've got to have a little bit different name to come up high on Google's list. :-)
ReplyDeleteWell, so much for that plot. I can't go back and get renamed.
DeleteI have a fairly common name but found absolutely no one with my exact name! I used to Google myself when I had a number of federal publications. Now if I google my name in images I get all most photos!
ReplyDeleteIt's a little different to google your name or google an image.
DeleteI guess I should as I have a common older name:)
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering if some people promote themselves to gain publicity.
DeleteI don't google my real name, but the writer's name I use comes up very quickly on Google lists.
ReplyDeleteIf you're on line frequently you'll be high on the list.
DeleteThere's a fairly famous Stephen F. Hayes out there, a conservative commenter on FOX news. He's an avid Dick Cheney supporter, to my horror. I also share my name with a few convicts.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure if we checked we'd find a few bad guys with our names.
DeleteI have googled my name. And other people, too. You run across the most interesting things. Hopefully nothing bad! :)
ReplyDeleteIt's funny what turns up. The first thing that comes up for me is from my Dad's obituary.
DeleteMy maiden name was Smith. Your head spins around with that name.
ReplyDeleteThe bird feeders Red. They prevent the birds hitting the windows. That is why we got them. At that house. We used to sit down and do games in afternoon and then also we used to listen to the radio as the rec room would bring in the sound direct. So then we watched the birds go in the bird houses if we did not do games.. We got it at Canadian tire.
That was so much pleasure watching them. Just to let you know
Only thing is when you plan to wash the window. Make sure you take them off as the soap suds can loosen them. .Dry your window and put back on. Our friends have a different kind and so cute as they look back at you and are not scared. You can take picture as I did.
I've seen these feeders for sale and it must have been at Canadian Tire. You would get a great view of any bird that would come to the feeder.
DeleteI have not goggled my name but it sounds like something I should do. Sounds like lots of fun.
ReplyDeleteLook for your image! Thanks for visiting Hiawatha House.
DeleteThat's a sure way to waste half an hour. I know of two other mes, one is Australia and one in New Zealand but whether I found either of them on line I wouldn't know. I'm more interested in the lady who is the image of me. I hear of her every now and then from people I meet who know her. I saw her myself once when I was 19 and just stood and stared I was so amazed. Weirdly, apparently we still look alike as we have aged.
ReplyDeleteThat would be really spooky to see someone exactly the same as you!
DeleteI have googled my name, but not for a while. The first thing that comes up is my blog.
ReplyDeleteLook for your image. Since you have many photos on line it might show up often.
DeleteHi Red, This sounds interesting and fun ... haven't tried it yet ... will give it a shot!
ReplyDeleteLook for your image.
DeleteAh yes, I have Googled Alan Burnett a few times only to discover that I seemingly had an unknown career designing Superman comics. I once used Facebook to contact an old friend I had not seen for years and we conducted a long conversation over many weeks before discovering that it was someone else with the same name (who also used to know someone with a name like mine). Funny old world.
ReplyDeleteMy Pen Name comes up immediately with posts and of course news articles. My actual name comes up quite a bit and I discovered some time ago I have a lost cousin in Nova Scotia with my name. Kinda cool, eh.
ReplyDeleteInteresting! Jilks is very unusual, and the other branch of the Jilks family have issues with money. I used to get calls from collection agencies! We use hubby's name now...
ReplyDeleteI've heard about googling names before but I never did mine. I don't know maybe I was afraid to discover sonething I won't like. But eventually I did and found many with the same family name and similar sounding names.
ReplyDeleteNow that you've mentioned it, I googled my name. I can tell you there is nobody else in the country with my name, mainly because anyone with my last name is related.
ReplyDeleteUh oh! I take that back. My sister-in-law used to have my name until she got married. It's a sort of a family chuckle that my husband married a woman with the same name as his sister.
ReplyDeleteWhen I Google my name, I get a dominatrix in England who involved in some scandal with a politician whose ear she licked!!!
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