Embarrassing Google results

[Aramis]

A query for you internets savvy folks: when you google my full name, I pop up in a few random results. One of these is very embarrassing. It's absolutely nothing illegal, pornagraphic or nasty/mean-spirited...just embarrassingly, overwhelmingly dorky (and I am quite comfortable referring to myself as a dork). It was something I was involved with when I was 12-13 years old and am no longer interested in, and I'm not really sure how my full name became attached to the project in the first place.

I've emailed the webmaster of the aforementioned site to request that they remove my name, but never heard back from them. Is there anything else I can do to try to have my name removed? I just don't want potential employers to google me and find this embarrassing phase in my past.

 

[Twilight]

You have to go through the webmaster at the site Google has indexed - you can't go through Google as they're not responsible for what their crawler finds on the web.

It is qualitatively - if not necessarily legally - within your right to ask the webmaster to please remove your name from the site - unless it's from an article or some other copyrighted work.


Having said that: it's completely not within the right of your potential employer to base their decision on something you were associated with when you were thirteen! Moreover, they have no way of knowing that it's you (unless the page you mentioned goes into extreme detail on you - or you have the least common name ever )

And on top of that - if you're applying for a standard, run of the mill job, the chances of a potential employer scouring Google on you is pretty low.

 

[Timewalker]

When I Google my real name, I get some rather complimentary results, which give the impression of a smart, talented woman.














What a shame none of those women are me...

 

[romulus]

^^ Same with me.

Its kind of depressing actually. Writers, Doctors.. apparently my name is pretty common. I haven't found a way to find my self using my name in google. Not sure if that's a good thing.

 

[Timewalker]

I'm actually reassured by not finding myself via Google. It means I still have a little privacy left.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

My full name (in quotes) comes up with 7800 results, most of which refer to song lyrics about the crime found in this wikipedia entry. Not really embarrassing though.

Some parallels are just too blatant to ignore

 

[ThunderAeroI]

whats the embaresment? when i google my name i only get results for me and i am everywhere. i can find posts i made in a yahoo group 6 years ago and more.

so im curious what so embaresing...

 

[Trekker4747]

whats the embaresment? when i google my name i only get results for me and i am everywhere. i can find posts i made in a yahoo group 6 years ago and more.

so im curious what so embaresing...

Megatron and Optimus Prime slash-fiction.

 

[farmkid]

I google my name and find a packaging company, someone on IMDB with one credit, a musician, a photographer, a designer of some sort, someone with an account at GameSpot, and that's just the first page. I'm not there anywhere.

 

[roguephoenix]

A query for you internets savvy folks: when you google my full name, I pop up in a few random results. One of these is very embarrassing. It's absolutely nothing illegal, pornagraphic or nasty/mean-spirited...just embarrassingly, overwhelmingly dorky (and I am quite comfortable referring to myself as a dork). It was something I was involved with when I was 12-13 years old and am no longer interested in, and I'm not really sure how my full name became attached to the project in the first place.

I've emailed the webmaster of the aforementioned site to request that they remove my name, but never heard back from them. Is there anything else I can do to try to have my name removed? I just don't want potential employers to google me and find this embarrassing phase in my past.

so... i don't know if i'm the only one curious, but may we see this page?

 

[Timewalker]

One of my namesakes is apparently a talented poet, and I once got a message on MySpace from somebody who was *thrilled* to have tracked me down online -- because we'd met at a poetry symposium in Toronto...

And she never did believe me when I insisted that not only had we never met in Toronto, but I've never been within 2000+ MILES of Toronto!