Ever Google somebody's name?
 

Say you meet somebody... And you wanna know a bit more about them. Ever go to Google and search for their name?

I just did this... Found a bit of information actually. And one bit that might be the guy, but I'm not quite sure.

Anyway, am I crazy to do that? Has anyone else done this?

I'm not a stalker... just really bored!

sure... ego surfing is a thing to do... also if you have any friends who are even mild celebrities... :) brings up some interesting things...

I've found out what old classmates are doing these days, thanks to Google.

Lol, *goes to do it now*.

I searched my name but nothing came up. Well, nothing for me anyway. I'll have to get my name out there online more often ;)

Apparently I hold a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering and an MD.

YAY ME!

I just searched for a guy that I went to high school with. Apparently, there was a chance that he could've been drafted by the NFL. Unfortunately he didn't, and I was looking to see if any teams picked him up yet.

I've searched my name and friend's names on google before. It was kind of unsettling that other people had my same name...

Yeah... I have a bunch of old High School track and cross country times, plus comments I've made in a couple papers, etc.

As well, I've found that I founded a Presbyterian church somewhere in the South in the 1920s.

:-)

I do it, tammy.

We're both freaks.

Yeah, I've googled. Sometimes it's kind of awkward learning information about someone and either having to explain how you know it or act like you don't. Example: before my girlfriend and I had our first date, I googled her name and found out where she went to college and grad school and her birthdate. She asked me where I went to school, and I didn't want to say "and I already know where you went, because I researched you on the web," and then watch her run out of the room in fear of a mad stalker.

Other times it can be good to google people. I always search google groups for ebay names of sellers I'm thinking about buying from to see if anyone's bitched about them (I learned this the hard way when I did a search after I had gotten ripped off and found like 20 posts of people unhappy with the guy).

Google me and you get the production notes from an unedited filmed interview I did 5 years ago with a word for word transcription of the interview, including every "uhhh..." "errr..." and notes like [SCRATCHES ARMPIT]. Not very flattering.

absolutely, I do it all the time, it's fun :)

I don't see anything wrong with it, at least if it's not the same person multiple times of course.

I did my math teacher. Its funny before coming to my school he used to teach at a college in Wisconsin. One night he got drunk stumbled home and broke into his neighbors house thinking it was his own.

i searched for an old highschool crush once. :-x got his bootleg tradelist website and his email address and.........emailed him some silly messge about what i was doing and where i was going to college. then months later i got his aim and IMed him. :-x hahahahhaha stalker much? :)

Yep, googling people is great fun. :) But I don't usually trst the results too much. For instance, apparently every other female in the world has the same name as me, and if you "google" my name, first and last, you get like twenty million different people. So you never know if its the right person or not. Oh well, still fun. :)

google has a bunch of other cool features, you can just type in someone's phone number and you get their address and a link to mapquest or somehting like that to get directions to their house

I do this all the time, mostly for people I used to know that I haven't seen in 10 or 20 years. Most of them are off the radar, but a surprising number aren't. I'm a pretty good researcher; so if they're out there, I can find them.

I researched one guy I used to work for who was an actual card-carrying Commie, a total revolutionary. Now he's living in a posh surburb, belongs to the Democratic Central Committee, and has a couple of kids in high school. I'm pretty sure it's him, because he used to live one town over when I knew him, and he's got an unusual last name.

Another guy I used to work for was the ultimate young-Republican buttoned-down venture-capital-grubbing software entrepreneur. Now he's a charismatic preacher in Chicago. Got his email address and chatted him up, and yep, it was actually him. Unfortunately, he hadn't improved.

I love doing this stuff. Problem is, I'm getting so old I'm forgetting a lot of names and that's kind of limiting, ...... uh, what was I saying?

apparently, i'm the first professional ice skater to openly declare that i'm gay.

I do it all the time, especially with friends. I try not to do it with people I've just met because I have found myself, at times, acting differently from knowing this new piece of information. But usually I do it anyway, I can't help it, I'm addicted to Google. :)

Only myself. All of the class reunion pictures were easily found. Someone from work did that, and put my pics all around the building. I thought it was pretty funny, all of my pictures showed me and a beer or two.

i have. i wanted to see pic's and other info.

Yeah, when i was really bored.

I've searched people from high school's names, but I've never found anything.

I've done it before, for my name. At first I used my first and middle name and got tons of hits, then added my middle name and then I got almost none hehe.

never tried it.. but i probably will now...

I found myself in the National Student Research Center's scientific journal (science reports by elementary school kids) and a picture of me from my HS fencing team's website.

A good friend of mine seems to be living a double life working for websites with titles such as "HOT ANAL ACTION WITH [name removed]"

Hell yeah!

I've googled lots of people.
I surprised myself when I found my name come up because I had a question I asked of the tech guy at the Chicago Tribune published in the paper. Weird feeling.

I have done it a few times, Nothing spectacular came up. But I like Googling peoples names under the Image search...Sometimes it's funny the pictures that you come up with.

I actually started a thread on TFP 3.0, I asked everybody to search thier name under the Image search and post the first picture that came up.

I Googled a friend that I went to school with, and the first thing up was her web page for the wedding! It was cool. Didn't try me...dunno if I want to!

I googled my name, "Dominic Arenas", quotation marks and all, and what do I get?

Well, why dont you see for yourself.

little ever turns up about me, having all too common a name & nicks, but that's quite ok fine! in fact i seriously prefer it that way.

now i'd never thought of nor heard of googling phone #s & luckily we have a non-published # so nothing turned up, but i googled a couple friends' & my parents' & there they were! whoa. O_O

hahaha looking at the phone # aspect again, google/yahoo/mapquest tends to screw up the zip codes. that's good!

cuz that'd be too damn scary if it gave out street addys.

i google search everyone.
its great to find out little tid-bits that are good for conversations later.
so long as you don´t list off important details of their lives and come across as a desperate stalker, its great.

sadly, my name comes up with nothing.

I think this was posted here before (but at another forum). Check out www.googlism.com. It's pretty cool.

yup...searched old high school friend to see if they had webpages

If you google my name, William Edelmayer, the first result will be that of the website I did in college (last summer).

Neat, huh?

Yeah, so I'm that good friend. If you type in my real name, you get stuff that's actually me. If you type in the name I generally go by, you get a shitload of porn, generally along the lines of "(my name) sucks (fill in blank)". I really would like to know who this is with my name, and how it got there, and go kick their ass. Cause it's not me, honestly. I wonder if I can sue if I find out who it is... harming my reputation or something. It could pay for college....

I've done it a few times out of curiosity. It doesn't work for my name though because I have a very common first name and an incredibly common hispanic last name.

Done it and found a girl i went to high school with 35 years ago. Really interesting what you can do these days.

I just performed a search for my name and, how funny, look what popped up:

- from urbandictionary.com : is a krunk ass nigga.
- I live in NYC and enjoy taking pictures of Central Park
- own my own beerhouse is Germany
- have won many prestigious awards in several areas which include art, sports and photgraphy.