Using google for information purposes

[jw4833]

Hey Guys:

I was watching a talk show earlier where the moderators were discussing the use of Google to find out all kinds of information including the guy they are dating. One moderator was very adamant that she believes everything that Google says about anyone that she had used it for...where as one moderator spoke up and said that all the information on an individual is not accurate. Therefore, you have to pick and choose what you tend to believe from the site. I found this to be quite true because earlier this year while having dinner with my sister...she and I decided to Google ourselves. The information that I found under my name was not accurate at all to say the least. In fact...Google had stated that one of my other sisters was actually my mother and they also had her age at 20 years more than her actual age. Furthermore...they had one of my older brothers listed as my dad and my late father listed as my oldest brother. Now...I'm not saying that all the information was not accurate...but from what I've read on myself...at least 85% of the information was not true. Therefore...I bring this discussion to the forum. If you Google yourself...did you find the information listed about yourself to be true??...Thanks as always for responding or reading my post....JW :cheers:

 

[OLMPKY]

Wow. I never knew how or where to go to google myself.

 

[gb2000ie]

The problem with using Google in this way is that there is no one person with our name, so, what you get back is a mish-mash of lots of different people who happen to share a name.

I guess the more unusual your name, and the more active you are on social media, the more correct it will be.

In my case I have an unusual name, do a bunch of podcasts, and have written a bunch of open source code/apps, and have peer-reviewed academic publications, so when I google myself I only see my own stuff, and while a bunch of it is utterly out of date (old jobs and stuff), it is actually accurate.

But trying the same with some of my friends who have much more common names, the result is very different!

I would take Google search results on a name with a big pinch of salt!

B.

 

[brmstn69]

According to Google, I'm a 21 yo college student in St. Paul, Mn.

Oh... and apparently, I'm Asian...