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  • What does Google know about you?

    For short version read below:
    Long version: Ok, call me a stalker, but I've recently been job hunting and have been getting on really well with the girl at the agency, however I know she's already got a daughter and given her professionalism I don't want to put her in an uncomfortable position by asking her out for a drink (especially if she turns out to be married and I still need to liaise with her over these jobs!). So in a moment of boredom I put her name into google and discovered the following general information:
    Date-of-birth (and thus age)
    Full address!
    Alternative address
    Alternative name (don't know if this is her maiden or married name, so no light shed on that one!)
    And the fact that she was declared bankrupt last year!
    All from the first 3 results, took all of 2 minutes.

    Short version:
    So I put myself into google and failed to find a single reference to me anywhere.

    So what does Google know about you?
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    Luckily for me I have the same name as a comic artist, so she get's nearly all the links, which is nice.

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    • #3
      I have quite an unusual surname so was dreading looking! - the only link that comes up is my faceache pic and a list of my friends!

      Also try typing in your username.
      BumbleB

      I have raked the soil and planted the seeds
      Now I've joined the army that fights the weeds.

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      • #4
        that is extremely worrying. Thankfully it only seems to have picked up my Amazon details and my myspace account nothing else but surely Amazon shouldn't be allowed to give any info away like this?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by The amateur View Post
          that is extremely worrying. Thankfully it only seems to have picked up my Amazon details and my myspace account nothing else but surely Amazon shouldn't be allowed to give any info away like this?
          What details does the Amazon information contain?
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          • #6
            Originally posted by taff View Post
            Luckily for me I have the same name as a comic artist, so she get's nearly all the links, which is nice.
            my name is the same as a touring car driver, a baseball player and a well known comedian/activist, so i dont get a look in
            Kernow rag nevra

            Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
            Bob Dylan

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            • #7
              Originally posted by OllieMartin View Post
              For short version read below:
              Long version: Ok, call me a stalker, but I've recently been job hunting and have been getting on really well with the girl at the agency, however I know she's already got a daughter and given her professionalism I don't want to put her in an uncomfortable position by asking her out for a drink (especially if she turns out to be married and I still need to liaise with her over these jobs!). So in a moment of boredom I put her name into google and discovered the following general information:
              Date-of-birth (and thus age)
              Full address!
              Alternative address
              Alternative name (don't know if this is her maiden or married name, so no light shed on that one!)
              And the fact that she was declared bankrupt last year!
              All from the first 3 results, took all of 2 minutes.

              Short version:
              So I put myself into google and failed to find a single reference to me anywhere.

              So what does Google know about you?
              Fortunately no personal details but it did show something that I didnt know about which was an acknowledgement by an author on his book that I helped contribute to, oh and thousands of posts on the Microsoft Newsgroups where I was a Microsoft MVP for about 4 years.

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              • #8
                SO, are you gonna ask her out then?

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                • #9
                  I am afraid to look.
                  My phone has more Processing power than the Computers NASA used to fake the Moon Landings

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
                    SO, are you gonna ask her out then?
                    Well she's got me one job lined up and I've got through to a selection process with another, so I figure she deserves a bunch of flowers at the least.
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                    RedThorn - Chief Interrobang Officer
                    Pumpkin Becki - Head of Dremel Multi-Tool Sales & Marketing and Management Support
                    Jeanied - Olliecentric Eulogy Minister
                    piskieinboots - Ambassador of 2-word Media Reviews

                    WikiGardener a subsidiary of Ollietopia Inc.

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                    • #11
                      Check the ring finger!

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by BFG View Post
                        Check the ring finger!
                        Of course, unfortunately I didn't think to do this the first time we met, and all our other conversations have been on the phone. Need the right moment to drop a "so what does your husband think of that?" type question into conversation! Maximum cheeseyness
                        Current Executive Board Members at Ollietopia Inc:
                        Snadger - Director of Poetry
                        RedThorn - Chief Interrobang Officer
                        Pumpkin Becki - Head of Dremel Multi-Tool Sales & Marketing and Management Support
                        Jeanied - Olliecentric Eulogy Minister
                        piskieinboots - Ambassador of 2-word Media Reviews

                        WikiGardener a subsidiary of Ollietopia Inc.

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                        • #13
                          Didnt check the ring finger??? Basics gentlemen, basics!!!

                          There is a well known American r+b singer, an athlete from the Bahama's, a man who won a large sum on WWTBAM, plus 3 members of my former regiment who have had the cheek to use my name as their own. I am invisible as far as Google is concerned.
                          And long may that continue
                          Bob Leponge
                          Life's disappointments are so much harder to take if you don't know any swear words.

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                          • #14
                            Thankfully having a very "common" surname I get lost amongst thousands although I reckon I should be there quite a bit for various reasons.
                            Hayley B

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                            • #15
                              I think this is a little bit of scare-mongering?

                              I use two names: one is unique. No hits.

                              My other name is very common: hundreds of hits, but only one of them is me, and it was a very old Amazon link. Even my Facebook page didn't come up. Incredible really, because I use the Net for all my shopping, pretty much, social networking etc etc. Still you couldn't find me by Googling.

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                              Last edited by Two_Sheds; 12-07-2009, 06:40 AM.
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