Track you down?

[chaos945]

When was the last time any of you put your names into a popular search engine to see what comes back?

Since the last time I looked, the amount of information available online with just my name used here was surprisingly a lot! After some searching around with other keywords, I was able to remove a good hunk of sensitive information about myself online!

This came to mind when I noticed another poster here's name on another site I was frequenting and thought "hmm" I wonder, 7,210 Google results later and I was convinced to track down and remove my own information.

All I can say is I'm going to be using much more popular words and phrases as a username in the future to make tracking me down a heck of a lot harder. 😱

 

[SPeedY_B]

Searched the web for SPeedY B. Results 1 - 10 of about 595,000

*shrug* as soon as you put any name on the net, it will be picked up by a search engine.

 

[Henyman]

yup any sites you join etc will be picked up on by google, by google'in my name you can find most of sites i'm a member off 😛

 

[Xie]

I seem to be doing ok somehow ... this nick isn't on google yet (well in 1st 14 pages at least) and my IRC nick is only on 2 now somehow .. was more before I thought 🙁

 

[Andy]

'hybrid' is pretty popular, but i know alot of my infos online.

 

[Perris Calderon]

perris is a city in cali, so I'm obscure for quite a few pages

 

[NerdUprising]

hmmm, one hit for deviantart, two for NTFS, and one for ping results on dslreports
4 = not too shabby 🙂

momma I are famous! 😛