Jeremy asked...
"How often do you Google yourself?"
...and, I will answer truthfully.
Approximately 1x per month. And, you should know I'm not lying by the pace of my blog postings. That's a pretty tell-tale indicator of my free, online time.
But, judging by Jeremy's strengths...I have a hunch he Googles himself more.
BTW... if you're not searching Google and Technorati for yourself and your church...you could be missing out on some candid insight; affirmation, opportunities for improvement. Once you reach celebrity status, you might consider stopping because it's not helpful when too many people are talking about you. But for the other 99% of us...it's a good read on occasion.
My name “Rob Abdul” for the last 3 years has been my brand name.
I was so proud when my name appeared in Goggle’s suggestive list.
It may not sound like much but at least 60 to 80 people goggle me a month.
It is nice for the Ego, I must admit!
Posted by: Rob Abdul | Jul 05, 2009 at 09:18 PM
I blogged about this a while back, too. The list of people who share my name include an almost-famous English rock drummer from the 70's, an older gent that runs a mystery-novel literary club, and a guy in LA whose hobby is to dress up as a Starship Trooper and hang out at Sci-Fi conventions.
Posted by: Barry Pike | Aug 29, 2007 at 08:23 AM
I google myself and my nick name too quite often. Funny to think how long things stay online that are still searchable. Who knew there was an astronaut with my last name? Shoot he even has a fan club on Facebook.
Posted by: Rusty | Aug 28, 2007 at 11:39 PM
About once a month. Mostly to make sure my email is getting out for spammers. Apparently though there was once a movie star with my name. So IMDB beats out my blog and website. I get tagged the most for conferences I attend.
Posted by: Scott Logan | Aug 28, 2007 at 08:47 AM
Google Alerts works great. (sends alert whenever Google indexes a site with the phrase specified)
I have it set to send alerts for my name, my wife, my church, and URLs too. I want to know what is being said. :-)
Posted by: Chris Reeder | Aug 28, 2007 at 08:23 AM
I too use Alerts. Too much work to manually Google myself so I just set up the Google Alerts on my names... A couple of people who share my name are in the news right now--one was murdered and the other directed (or was somehow involved in) a major Hollywood release... So I have to sort through all of those to find nothing about me...
Posted by: Dave | Aug 28, 2007 at 05:50 AM
Maybe this is conceited, but I constantly search for myself and my church on Google.
It's called Alerts. Searches come to me. I've found a lot of, er, _interesting_ things this way. :-)
http://www.google.com/alerts
Posted by: AJ | Aug 27, 2007 at 09:09 PM
ouch. way more. it's sick. and all i find is my posts on kemmeyer.typepad.com.
am i insignificant?
luckily, i'm self assure.
Posted by: Jeremy | Aug 27, 2007 at 09:06 PM