Oh hell yeah. I’ve vanity Googled plenty of times. In fact, that’s how I test the strength of search engines that pop up. It’s also how I could see the new Technorati overhaul sucked — the prior Technorati had hundreds of hits for me. The new one has less than a 100! Yeah, Microsoft, your Live Search bites much too!

Oh, it also had WordPress impress the hell out of me. Some search terms have my old blog as the first hit! Suck it, SEO suckahs!

Of course I do… I’m vain!

I do it from time to time, mostly to see how my rank is doing relative to the librarian in Minnesota and those damn Swedes.

One thing I just realized, is that when I see my name in print in close proximity to my most-used online name (ctmagnus), I think “Nachos”.

I most certainly do. My name is very unique in it both its spelling and combination of first and last names. The odd thing is that I have found two other people with the same name but with different spellings of the last name.

I have a Google alert that searches for “first-name last-name” and “last-name first-name” with both spellings of my first name and both spellings of my last name. I receive that alert every day. I also have the same alerts set up for my screen-name.

Searching for Aaron Hall reveals my site as number 3 on the list along with a boat load of web sites devoted to the R&B singer of the same name (absolutely no relation, lol).

In any case, yeah, I search pretty often just to see how my site ranks, and to make sure there are no blatant security leaks out there. Posting my name is one thing, but if I ever stumbled across any confidential info like bank info, etc, I would probably be angry.

PS. I tried “The Hancocks”, the title of my web site, and I came in first so that is pretty good for such a popular name. I don’t feel so bad now

How do you think I feel. 2 1/2 million hits and I am nowhere to be seen. That darned extrovert has stolen my lime light!

Actually when I google my initials, jmbh I come in third so that is not too bad I suppose.

I’m glad there’s not a whole lot of links for my real name.
But for ‘rodfather’, my blog is #2. Woo.

Even googling “Mickey Segal” comes up with jkontherun as listing #8.

Your ego is driving me from this site. Any other used wares you wanna hawk? Beg for a job?

Yes, I do Google myself. Fortunately, there is a high-profile gentleman in the mdeical establishment on the West Coast who comes up for many pages before I do.

There is a much better chance if you Google my usernames.

Woadan

Funny. My actual full name is pretty distinctive so when I do a vanity google, it takes until the middle of the third page before anything that isn’t me-related even crops up.

Of course the first two pages pretty much outline what I do, who I am, and where I come from. So whoa, does Google have a clear profile of me by now, yikes.

Yes – I am constantly surprised

I do it every once in a while. Anyone with an online presence should be doing it.

I don’t have a publicist, so I google myself, my business, and my book regularly (and use google alerts) to keep on top of anything that pops up that might be good (or bad) PR.