Is anyone more famous under their nickname?
 

Doing a google search for my name reveals absolutely nothing about me. Unfortunately, I have one of those common names (like John Smith) so I do get a lot of false positives.

On the other hand, I can find myself under my nickname and under different contexts, as well. I suppose this shouldn't be surprising to me considering how I'm actually credited as my nickname for a product that I help engineer. One of these links even has my photo!

It makes me wonder how I would have ranked among the other John Smiths... So, is anyone else more famous under their nickname?

strangely enough, when i google phredgreen, i only come up with the few marks that i've left on the web. sorry about that. apparently i'm the only noteworthy phredgreen out there.

when i google bermuDa or fuxor (my other forum name from a tech site) I get so many results i couldn't sift through them.

bermudatriad, however; comes up with a handful of results and they're all related to me. I even found my old old spaceports website, lol.

Turns out Peryn was a character in LOTR (a minor one i guess) that i had never noticed before. Turned out to be a girl too :/ Kinda odd though, i just put some letters together a few years ago and made it up....or so i thought. I have never encountered anyone with this name before, but apparently it is somewhat common. Heh, found a link to me on the TFP through google. That was wierd. All in all thouhg, i pretty much cant find myself on the web. Cant find my real name on their either. Bah...

This was actually pretty interesting.

I thought I'd be getting a lot of woodworkers/building websites, but everything Google returned on 'drawerfixer' was about me!

They mostly had to do with a gaming order that I'm in, but TFP and tortoises were in there also.

My other online alias, pacopicasso, returned a lot of my gaming order posts also.

My real name returns one page from the local newspaper buried deep on page four or five.

yes, my real name is Russell Crowe... oh, dammit, i just let everyone in on my secret...

j/k

seriously, no, i´m only famous in my own lunchbox.

there are a few famous bundys out there... like Al and Ted... but i´m not even named after them... so i can´t cash in their fame.

Nope. I get a few hits on my alter ego but I get more on my real name. I spent a fair amount of time writing articles & books and giving presentations about the economy and industry in another life.

There's apparently a musician with my real name who gets considerably more press than me. It will be a turning point when the hits associated with me surpass the ones associated with him.

Yes, I get a few hits for "Nefir Nefarious", from way back in the days I actually participated in the MMORPG and online gaming communities (ie: released some maps for RUNE, which people seemed to enjoy). Thats about as relevant as Google gets.

On the scary side, I've just realized there's an Alladdin character named just "Nefir", and a whole boatload of strange and disturbing websites, may of them possibly from another planet... Oh the horror.

My real name generates nothing useful aside from some standings in a rollerblading event I took part in a couple of times.

Evidently there's another ratbastid who's a member of a LAN gaming crew in Rhode Island. He gets a bigger googleshare than I do for my name.

I show up as Hit #7, though, on the TFP Folding@Home team stats page! And many contributions to everything2.com over the next couple pages, which was my Web Crack long before I found TFP.

My real name is surprisingly common--enough so that I get emails every now and then asking if I was in the service in certain years or graduated from certain univerities, usually years before I was born. I didn't bother to google me--I presume I'll get pretty ersatz results.

Funnily enough, lurkette's IRL name turned up a porn star who spelled her name exactly the same (slightly unusual) way. Funny! That's my little porn star! ;)

My nickname turns up a bunch of links but none of them have anything to do with me. Whew. :)

"Stiltzkin" turns up a bunch of Final Fantasy related results, but nothing relating to me. I actually only started using this nick on TFP. Before TFP, I used some other nickname. That one turns up a bunch of sites in Spanish :-D

:thumbsup:

When I search for Spinach Indeed I just get back a bunch of recipes.

When I search Spinach_Indeed however, a couple TFP links and some other stuff I've posted in. Neato.

Mephisto (or Mephistocles) certainly brings up more hits than my unusual Irish name.

The only hits I get on my real name are some work related articles in some IT publications and an annoying post I made to a history bulletin board about 10 years ago. I wish I could remove that!

Mr Mephisto

Under my nicknames, I mostly get some posts I've made to various messageboards, but my real name turns up a bunch of links to the same 3 or 4 people with my name that are into gaming or computers, then finally a couple of links to rockyhorrornewsgroup.org, the local board of education, and the staff page at the radio station I work for, complete with a picture.

My name turns up all sorts of things but the funny part of it is.. that my name really is Tinker... I got a few tattoo links ( I used to own a tattoo shop) I am not longer in the biz sold my shop about 4 years ago to move on :)

under the numist nick.. almost all results belong to me, a few forums, and my website, but a search for my name reveals nothing... another common british name. bah

Actually, my nick name is Id Kong (the surname is real). I won't mention my real one but you can do a search for that and see pretty much everything there is to know about me on the web, considering how my real name produces absolutely no hits...

I didn't mean your login name on TFP. That would be silly...

There's a whole bunch under both Redlemon and Red Lemon, including internet hosting companies and gaming software. None of it is me, as far as I can tell. I only use that name on TFP.

Dano069 only reveals posts on some of the boards I subscribe to. That is all.

You can find my real name plastered over a few pages of google, but my actual online name has been a tad popular as of late.

Bleh.

My online nickname fame is the only fame I have, and it's really not all that impressive. Just my captioning activities (attempted humor). My real name just brings up a lot of other people.

Phatman used to turn up some things, but what is scarier is that I have friends who didnt know my real name for a good 6 months. Just never came up in convrsation i guess.

Real name: tutoring schedule, some results from my races, my personal website, a magazine article I wrote, and, for some gawd awful reason, www.free-big-cock.biz--swear to god.

TelekineticFool and "telekinetic fool": my websites, two forums, some feedback I left, and, most proud, a mention in the Dilbert Newsletter! Yay, I'm intraFamous! I'm also the only 'telekinetic fool' out there, sez google.

Well Google returned 836 entries for wabbit before it began ommiting potential duplicates.

I'd call that almost famous unless Looney Toons carries a lot of weight.

I dont know, Ive never tried!
Thanks. Ill keep that for a rainy day or something!

My alter ego (on TFP) is little known and common on the Internet. My real name, however, is a different story. 1st hit on Google, plus 5 of top 10 hits. :)

And I don't exactly have a rare name, either.

i'm way more famous under my Real internet nickname than in real life (and i get alot of hits for real life) - i've been fairly active on the net since the early days, and helped with a popular file sharing programs inception though.. so my net fame is sort of cemented... ugh

I went through 25 pages of "sillygirl" -- got like, two links to TFP's Tilted paranoia. And there were way more pages left.

Went through and old username, got links to paranoia.

Used old married name and maiden name.. got nothin'

I have too many nicknames to make a name for myself under one of them.

Under my birth name, I'm the very first Google! Like, the first two out of a couple hundred. That makes me happy.

I used to be very famous in the Ultima Online gaming community back when it was first started under a different pseudonym. It was amusing to have people 'know who I was' when I went to game conventions and such.

I'm not famous at all under my real name. I have a common biblical first name and a very common hispanic last name so google searches don't usually find me, just 66,000 other hits.

Searched the web for Shauk. Results 1 - 10 of about 1,820

http://www.google.com/search?q=Shauk...utf-8&oe=utf-8

yeah turns up with my LJ, my pimprig account, my valley forums account, my DJShauk.com site, my gamermatrix.com site.. well just about every site i own, also my photo gallery on sexintheass.com (humor site, no actual sex in asses involved)

heh yeah im all over the place :) oh yeah, spokaneparties.com too.

whoo. lots results there.

With World's King I get a lot of sites about Jesus or Michael Jackson. A few TFP things but mostly crap obout Jesus.

With Scoot Fighter (my name in the scooter world) I get some site in German. No idea what the hell it is.

I am the only dragon2fire


anywere

at least according to google

my name refers to a psychological term for an altered state where someone wakes up forgets who they are and the life they have been leading and starts a new life under a different name, usually in another state or part of the world. Then one day they wake up and remember everything from the past and cant remember what they have been doing lately, this period of a new existense is called a fugue state or life.... so yeah there is plenty of stuff on the web about my name :)

My real name goggles me a list of anagrams of my name (which somebody from a newsgroup I once participated in made), the websites I created (one about Tom Waits, one about my old band), some kid from another school, a bunch of newsgroup links, some newsgroup statistics, some people finding their ancestors (not me), a picture of me sewing (?), and a question I once asked Douglas Adams, which he never answered, and then died. Sadly.
hu-man brings up all kinds of crap, nothing related to me - at least I gave up before finding any.
So, my real name is more famous than my alias! Hooray!

my alias is from a video game, so it gets much recognition, but I am famous as well, so I don't know, really.

Almost no relevant information on my alias, as its fairly common in the racing world, though was known by car lovers and haters alike from the area I'm originally from (also dubbed by others as the Honda Killer).

My real name produces quite a few relevant google finds though, despite it being a very common last name. Almost all of it is related to my NCAA shooting, as well as state matches prior to college. The other few are high school related.

This is actually quite a funny thread for me, but I will explain later.

Rubyee- 11 results
Ruby- what I wanted my name to be, and how it is pronounced- 6,710,000 results
Emily- first name- 3,800,000 results
Emily + last name- 343,000 results
Emily + middle name + last name- 131,000

Okay, funny story time. The year I was born, Emily was the most popular name for girls in the country, and my last name was the most popular name for boys in the country. I think Marie (middle name) came up pretty high in the list as well. This has, in fact, happened many years since then, making my name the most popular name in the country.

Well, I'm all over the place as my real name - comes from doing concerts. Found some press releases I never knew about, reviews, and programs... As my alias, only one link that is me - and it is to TFP. Apparently there are some people out there that are into big potatoes - ubertubers indeed! I never thought about that one...

I am, but only because i use my nickname in real life too. Had it since high school, and my closer friends use it