Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Googled

I have Googled my name before and never come up with anything interesting (or relevant) about myself, but tried again for this assignment. What I have found is that any variation of my full name pulls up hundreds of thousands of results. For example:

Searching Susannah L. Parker brings up 123,000 results.
Searching Susannah Lauren Parker brings up 252,000 results.
Searching Susannah Parker brings up 1,550,000 results!

Basically what comes up has nothing to do with me. Mainly, the results have to do with geneaologies of various families from the 1700 and 1800s. Another page showed that someone named Susannah Parker is a spokesperson for Save the Children UK, an independent children's charity that works to get every child proper healthcare, food, education and protection. There is also a book called Elusive Love by Catherine Lanigan in which one of the main characters is named Susannah Parker. I was not really feeling up to the task of looking through countless pages of search results to see if any of the websites were actually about me, so I stopped looking after ten or fifteen pages.

I definitely think that this means my name does not Google well. I was expecting at least to see my Facebook page pop up in the search results, but it didn't. Then again, this might have something to do with the security settings I have set for my profile. I realize that I do have an extremely common last name (which is obvious from all the ancestry-type websites that popped up), but I thought my first name was at least different enough that there would not be so many others who shared my full name. Maybe one day I'll become important enough to appear on various websites for all the good deeds I will have done. Hey, I can always dream, can't I?

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