I saw the light - searching for my own name

[Lexur]

I discovered this morning what Google want their users believe as the most important info about me in the web. Could you give a quick answer? Let's view:

the homepage of my company where I appear as founder from 1998?

my personal website?

my Facebook profile?

my twitter account?

None of them.

The Linkedin profile? An interview in a newspaper? A review of any of my sites?

No. The most important page about me is an abandoned Google+ profile with a 16 words post.

My first impulse was to open all my websites and start to add the +1 button because it's clear how it will influence the results but then I thought how tired I am about the Google games and the promise I made myself to try to learn to live out of the big G's universe.

[lucy24]

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.

[robzilla]

When searching, are you logged into the Google account connected to that Google+ profile? If so, the results may simply be personalized. If not, then this [webmasterworld.com] may be a relevant read.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Don't add the +1 button at this stage, it's not being used nearly enough to justify the page speed load times and google privacy issues. Hopefully in the future Google rolls out a NON javascript based button and stops mining visitor data, but don't hold your breath.

[tristanperry]

For me, Googling my name gives:

My personal website (which has simply said 'Under construction' for a month or two now)

Someone else's Facebook

My inactive Google+ account

192.com

My somewhat active Twitter account

So it's not the best results (it probably should be Twitter, Facebook, my personal website, 192.com, then Google+), although I wouldn't say Google+ is too high in the SERPs for my name.

[HuskyPup]

WooHoo, apart from 4 business directories listing me as company Chairman and with my company address and company telephone number...zippo, nothing else at all, no images, no references...excellent, just as I want.

The funny thing is I did find someone with my name, surprisingly because it's not a common name, living 100 kms from me and he's a computer network and security guy! Should I e-mail him? Lol