Googleability/Googleworthiness/Googleiciousness

anonymity and privacy vs vanity and convenience

[phranque]

a close friend died way too young recently, so i have some experience googling people i haven't heard from in 10-20 years.
i can't find myself in the noise for example.
on the other hand, my manager of 22 years ago attested to a hole-in-one in connecticut before he retired in florida where i easily found him through the homeowner's association site.
then i read this humorous column in my local paper which covered all the issues i was thinking about during those searches.
it's worth a read and can also be found here:
[iht.com...]

[httpwebwitch]

Good article.
She mentions Googleability of unusual names vs. common ones, with the "Mary Smith" example. It's even harder to rank for your name if your name happens to be a common noun or verb.

imagine trying to find yourself if your name is "April May" or "Jack Carry"

my name is like that, and I've worked very hard to get to #1

[weeks]

I have what would appear to be an unusual name and I have a lot on the web with my name on it, but try to find me via a search engine.

One, a journalist in England has the same name and, two, my name is the same as a person who was a minor player in an very famous event in modern history which is chock-a-block with conspiracy theories. Finally, I share my name with another minor player in the industrial revolution.

If you type in my city or state or my industry, with my name, I come up fairly easily in most search engines. But, just the name? Page 14 on Google, and even I wasn't sure that was me.