Shanta
09-17-2007, 03:09 PM
Wasn't sure where to post this. Is anyone else bothered that you if you google your name and your kids name your post from this site come up?
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View Full Version : google Shanta 09-17-2007, 03:09 PM Wasn't sure where to post this. Is anyone else bothered that you if you google your name and your kids name your post from this site come up? jellybeanmichelle 09-17-2007, 03:11 PM yeh, that's why I changed some of the info in my profile. becky 09-17-2007, 03:15 PM I noticed that too but at the same time a bunch of my info is already up on the net becuase of my businesses. Lorah 09-17-2007, 03:41 PM I also heard about how our names would come up in Google...so I checked...I only have 1 (one) hit, and it is not for SCM, but for my hubby's work. I don't know if ithas to do with my settings or what, but I'm glad to see that nothing from here came up! It was interesting to see all the other people with the same exact name, spelling and all, that came up though. Some aren't making a good name of the name though....I'm glad I'm not them. :) My3sonsplus1 09-17-2007, 04:19 PM yeah nothing really came up for me either.... I have a hit for the parent pack at the bottom of the first page (but that is only because I am member of the month, after I am not on the home page I think that will be gone ) and a hit referencing that I live in RP which I don't on BeckaLynn Designs in regard to s shower announcement but those are not in my legal name. My legal name has a hit for a non-active yahoo group I am in. So even though I am in 569841659 groups online I am still a "nobody"... Marisa 09-17-2007, 04:25 PM My name came up for my business site as well as meetup.com where I had placed an "ad" of sorts for SCM. It also came up from a post in a business networking group. If I add Brianna's name, nothing comes up at all. I think you just have to use common sense in where you put your name out there on the internet. One of the MAIN reasons I use a PO box for business! Shari 09-17-2007, 04:49 PM I don't notice anything for my son. I know mine shows up since I'm a notary, it even shows my address. Lynette 09-17-2007, 04:49 PM If I use my first and last name my Dane site comes up, some dog show results, and a member listing from the RP mom's club which I haven't been a member of in more than a year but if I type in my first name and either of the girl's first names, SCM links come up I guess because they tend not to be common names so I changed my member info months ago taking out birthdays, stuff like that. Adriana 09-17-2007, 04:55 PM So, you mean if we put our first and last name into a google search, a link to our user profile on this site comes up? Sorry, I'm a little slow with this . . . If so, that's a bit disconcerting. Lorah 09-17-2007, 04:58 PM Okay...this post use to say something totally different than what I am about to say..... I just googled my name again...and nothing but that one hit with DH's work...BUT when I aded SCM to the search a a couple of things came up!!! Really odd.... Adriana 09-17-2007, 05:04 PM Okay...this post use to say something totally different than what I am about to say..... I just googled my name again...and nothing...BUT when I aded SCM to the search a TON OF STUFF came up!!! Really odd.... Oh, okay, because I googled my name - just my first name (what an idiot!) and some model from South America came up - Ha, ha, ha. Then I added my last name and still nothing. Lorah 09-17-2007, 05:06 PM well....at first I thought it was a ton...but after looking closer it was a bit but not as much as I first thought.....so I corrected that other post too....but still...... becky 09-17-2007, 05:09 PM i ran the search again and if i put one or both my last names still only two or 3 pages show up. meeg124 09-17-2007, 06:38 PM I changed info on my profile to be pretty generic... I usually get a google hit that is related to me if I put in my email addy's jellybeanmichelle 09-17-2007, 06:42 PM Ok, so both my married name and maden name - I'm still a nobody. BUT, if I enter my screen name, there are a few links to SCM and 1 to my blog spot. Stacey 09-17-2007, 06:53 PM I get nothing with my married name. There's a golf player and a singer that seem to take up most the hits. If I use my maiden name, the 3rd result is a pdf of my Employee of the Month award from a couple of years ago! LOL LMS 09-17-2007, 07:33 PM the only way your information will come up on google is if you type it out in a public forum which is indexable by search engine spiders. If you go into the Forum Main page (where it lists every forum we have) you'll notice that every forum has a description stating if it's public or not. That's the point of that. That's also why we have a PRIVATE forum (which is highly under utilized on our board). That's supposed to be where you post things that you don't want the general public to read/search engines to be able to spot. Search engines are a very un-complex beast. If you write something ANYWHERE on the internet and it's public (ie, no password needed to view it) they WILL index it and it WILL show up on a search engine. There's no way around it. HeatherK 09-17-2007, 08:28 PM Ha Ha! If I search Heather Lars I get a bunch of hits for some story line on General Hospital. I guess a character, named Heather had a son named Steven Lars. If I search HeatherK Lars I get a few links to SCM. I've searched with my maiden name before and I have the same name as a popular Canadian ballerina! If you really want to search yourself put your first and last name in quotation marks. Lorah 09-17-2007, 08:31 PM If you really want to search yourself put your first and last name in quotation marks. :yeah I did that...I was going to tell everyone to try that too....but you beat me to it. :) StacyK 09-17-2007, 08:35 PM Ever googled your phone number? It freaks me out that you can type in a phone number in google and your address comes up.:thumbsdown Brookepanda 09-17-2007, 09:43 PM Ever googled your phone number? It freaks me out that you can type in a phone number in google and your address comes up.:thumbsdown Just a bunch of out of state or non local listings and addresses come up with the wrong area code on my phone number....my actual number never comes up Shari 09-17-2007, 10:30 PM Ever googled your phone number? It freaks me out that you can type in a phone number in google and your address comes up.:thumbsdown I googled our Santa Rosa number and it showed our address from 2 years ago. The number is now with Vonage. I also tried our Sacramento number which has only been Vonage with us and there was not a hit.... Does that mean that PacBell or the local equivalent is selling the info...?? Curious thought becky 09-17-2007, 10:51 PM didn't someone post here before about getting your phone number unlisted on google so your address and personal info doesn't come up? Maybe it was on another board but you can unlist your phone number from google. Lorah 09-18-2007, 08:28 AM my number shows what city, it also has an incorrect name next to it...ummm ya that makes no sense to me... Lorah 09-18-2007, 08:30 AM I googled my address....a martial arts studio comes up HAHAHAHAHA! Shanta 09-18-2007, 11:23 AM The phone trick is if you pay the $1.25 per month to be unlist you can't be googled. If you don't... then you can google your house Lorah 09-18-2007, 01:07 PM I don't know about the cost aspect, but I know when we signed up for our phone number they asked us what information we wanted listed in the phonebook, information (411), and on the Internet. They give you choices, First name only, first and Last, Last name only, no name at all, name and number, name and address, just number, just address, number and address, name etc. WE opted to just do name and number. We use to have nothing listed in the phone book, but for some reason we changed our minds this time around. |