lucy24 - 11:42 pm on Sep 10, 2011 (gmt 0)

Out of curiosity... Do you have a truly unusual name, or did you simply ignore the hits for other people with the same name? My own search starts by saying {my name} is on Facebook, which surprised me a bit since I'm fairly sure I'm one of the two people on the planet who isn't on Facebook. They've also got five sample images: five assorted other people (one's a mother and baby, neither of them me) and one painting of rats sitting on a cat.

In a more serious vein:

My last name also happens to be (in English) a fairly common verb. Somehow g*** has figured out to ignore this usage and search only for {firstname lastname} rather than {firstname, punctuation, verb}, whether or not I do an "exact phrase" search. The last time I checked, they hadn't yet got the hang of this. Similarly, the advertising links on the side are all for sites claiming to have found {my name}, not sites offering to sell {my name} at a good price.