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| View Poll Results: How many occurrences of your lastname in Google? | |||
| less than 1.000 |    | 0 | 0% |
| less than 10.000 |    | 3 | 7.32% |
| less than 100.000 |    | 6 | 14.63% |
| less than 500.000 |    | 5 | 12.20% |
| less than 1.000.000 |    | 2 | 4.88% |
| less than 50.000.000 |    | 13 | 31.71% |
| less than 100.000.000 | | 3 | 7.32% |
| less then 500.000.000 | | 4 | 9.76% |
| less than 1.000.000.000 | | 2 | 4.88% |
| over 1.000.000.000 | | 3 | 7.32% |
| Voters: 41. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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01-13-2008, 06:15 AM
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| Member LOL  Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Brussels, Belgium
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| Googling your last name How many items does Google return when you give your lastname (without blanks) as a keyword? |
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01-13-2008, 07:01 AM
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| But you can call me Brain  Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Georgetown, Ontario
Posts: 5,923
|  Re: Googling your last name Results 1 - 10 of about 42,600,000. 
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01-13-2008, 07:12 AM
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| Remembering TQ   Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sweden
Posts: 13,638
| Re: Googling your last name 9.52M hits.
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01-13-2008, 07:13 AM
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| Acid8000 aka. phildee  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sydney
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| Re: Googling your last name Results 1 - 20 of about 11,500 Seems it's a fair bit more unique than yours Brian. 
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01-13-2008, 08:43 AM
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| 010011100100100101001110  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Virginia
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| Re: Googling your last name 2.2mil
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01-13-2008, 10:34 AM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Mar 2003
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| Re: Googling your last name If you use different PC, or different OS, the result may be different. I found out this difference in search from Google when I was searching for some topic, and use WinXP of at least 2 different languages, Vista, Ubuntu 7, Fedora 7.
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01-13-2008, 10:42 AM
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| Thoroughly water-cooled  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Somewhere, beyond the sea
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| Re: Googling your last name 1 - 10 of about 2,190,000
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01-13-2008, 11:01 AM
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| Eschews Obfuscation Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Connecticut, USA
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| Re: Googling your last name Quote:
That may be because your Google preferences are set differently in the different OS's. Click the "preferences" link to the right of the box where you enter the search terms, and see if you are specifying returns that are in English only, or that are in any language. I would think this preference is stored either in a cookie, or remotely based on a cookie, which would make it specific to each computer and each OS. Paradoxically, though, my name returns 8700 hits specifying "any language," and 12900 specifying "English only." Their algorithm may be good, but it's not perfect! Changing one letter of my name makes its spelling more common, and changes these numbers to 674K and 14.9M. -- Al Edit: I voted <10K, since that is what I get specifying "any language," and since the "English only" result is fairly close to that threshold. Last edited by ctal : 01-13-2008 at 11:12 AM. | |
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01-13-2008, 11:33 AM
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| You can run.....  Join Date: Feb 2004
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| Re: Googling your last name Results 1 - 10 of about 451,000 Thats with options on any language and safe filtering off. |
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01-13-2008, 11:40 AM
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| Remembering TQ Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sweden
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| Re: Googling your last name (One might note that my score of 9.52M might have been inflated by other uses of "Dryhumper" in everyday vernacular.)
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01-13-2008, 01:01 PM
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| Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007
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| Re: Googling your last name 177k |
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01-13-2008, 01:31 PM
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| But you can call me Brain Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Georgetown, Ontario
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01-13-2008, 01:46 PM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Los osos
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| Re: Googling your last name Results 1 - 10 of about 355,000,000 i have a truly common last name
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