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1. nobody+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-07-20 17:08:34
I have a pretty common name, with a number of famous folks with the same name (mostly dead) and others who are listed on various sites.

It used to be (>ten years ago), Google would return information about me, specifically, on the first page of results.

I made an effort to remove specific references to me and it's been mostly successful. I can still be found on whitepages.com/yellowpages.com and various background check sites, along with a bunch of other folks with the same name.

If you know where I live or my age, you can probably work out who I am from those, but otherwise I'm not googleable (or bing/ddg-able).

Every few years I go and do some ego surfing[0] to make sure things stay that way.

This post caused me to do so again and I was pleased to see that I'm not in Google or Bing results (except as noted above) at all.

Even my pseudonymous handle here is used by other folks on various other public sites, although mine is reported on the first page of searches.

Other pseudonyms I use are likewise mostly not reported either.

Which is just the way I like it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egosurfing

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