Didn't find anything about me on the Net ( phew ) - however, I did find that I apparently share names with a Bavarian guy who has a beer fanclub, and with a Danish artist (although I think he lacks an -s in his last name).
With my name, I get 627 hits! A lot of them are game sites, Japanese language message boards, some really old Guestbook that I vaguely remember signing. There's also another person with my name in the North Central US.
Searching in Altavista, where I can have just my name (my first name seems to be some umm.. porn sites... ), I only get 5 results. (it doesn't include YahooGroups - used to be egroups). One of the 5 was Dustin's Dunn's Civ2 Site. (Found a link to it on TUC2S. - Pre-Apolyton merger)
I wonder if any old TUC2S users would recognize my name. Then again, it's been over 5 years! (and you can see the reason I didn't go to Apolyton. College)
My name has an unusual spelling and I'm in a fair number of official government docs, hansards and media clippings, so I take up the first few pages.
But it's nothing to brag about, because first on the list is a rather embarrassing and badly written, decade-old story by a freelance reporter that makes me look like an idiot. I've been wondering what I need to do to push that thing to the back of the list...
I tried both altavista and google. On google I only found a link to a former classmates homepage with a picture of our class. On altavista I found a link to my friends' band's homepage, where I'm apparently a member of their fanclub and to a competition I participated in a few years ago.
I also tried Funxus on google and got a four year old homepage and links to civfanatics.
My last name is protected in Sweden and spelled with an "ä", so my last name will only give links to relatives. Good if you want people to find you, bad if you want to be anonymous.
My I should make a homepage with only my name and an emailadress to just tell I exist.
Well I finally found myself on the net.
Here is a picture of me winning a inter city high school quiz. I am the guy, the Chief Guest, Aswini Nachappa is patting on the shoulder.
P.S. the stuff near my feet is what I won plus about Rs.8000 in cash$$
I just did another seach, and i found a person who I do not know, but I can see that i am sohow related to him. And he lives less than one mile from where i live, which is really weird, because my family is not even from this part of the country!
My Google Ego browse brings up around 30 entries -- mostly results f/ running competions that I've entered. A lot of genealogical references to dead people who had the same name. About five links are to stuff I've written or "signed" online, or to friends web-pages who are giving me a shout-out.
Looks like an article in the Seattle Times that mentioned my name comes up too.
I got three results from CFC forums, two from Apolyton, one from CDG, one from a Starcraft site, one from a Axis and Allies Pacific PBEM site, one from a Red Alert 2 site where I gave a tip that was posted on the nes, and two from the World Masters Diplo tourney that I participated in earlier this year.
I also searched for bingitz, which alot of people online also know me as. First two are from an SC clan i tried to start over a year ago, and the last few are weird. Apparently bingitz is some sort of word in a foreign language:
Chets... bingitz skali... sumer dah tido... hmm... kalo kul 1 gak Abang Sham tarak... nampak nyer ako akan pergi ke alam mimpi.
Fortunately, my name is very unique, except that my father and grandfather have the same first & last name too. So, all the links are about the 3 of us.
Some wierd stuff on here.. Appearently my grandfather was a decent basketball player in his youth, because there are a bunch of game results for New Jersey college basketball in the 40s.
Some random junk about me too.. A letter to the editor, my tied-for-16th-in-state Ohio math league results, the 'Mythmaster' competition, and this one from the robot class last semester
Suprising how much info is floating around on the net
This is fun. The second link Google turns up is my resume on my employer's website. About the seventh link or so is the website from my old research group in graduate school, which hasn't been maintained since I left.
The others on the first page, which include a dancer and a person who runs a beauty salon in Argentina, are not me.
If I include my middle name, nearly all of the hits on the first page are me, including the publication of bar exam results from the time I took it, and my husband's website.
If I search on my Civ Fanatics username, I get Satchel Paige websites, of course.
My name yielded about 400 results (with omissions). As far as I can tell, none of them are about me. Among the most interesting people who share my humble moniker:
-pole vaulter
-fictional IRA terrorist
-FBI agent
-two Ph.ds in physics
-more swimmers and golfers than I can count
-"first class alcoholic,"
- famous herpetologist
-"lasik" optometrist whose practice is on a street with the same name as mine, but in another city.
-midget hockey player (?)
-several corporate CEOs
All this even though my name is not very generic. Turns out there are possibly thousands of my namesakes running around creating reputations for me. Frightening.
I'm the hunk in a romance novel:
"... In the meantime she finds Sean Lindstrom, a big, blonde former Ranger who begs to be conquered. Beth finds their sexual exploration intoxicating..."
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) - however, I did find that I apparently share names with a Bavarian guy who has a beer fanclub, and with a Danish artist (although I think he lacks an -s in his last name).
A lot of them are game sites, Japanese language message boards, some really old Guestbook that I vaguely remember signing. There's also another person with my name in the North Central US. 
), I only get 5 results. (it doesn't include YahooGroups - used to be egroups). One of the 5 was Dustin's Dunn's Civ2 Site. (Found a link to it on TUC2S. 
- Pre-Apolyton merger)
