My Vanity Search

Google: ONE RESULT- The white pages via google.!

Yahoo: NO RESULTS

Intelius: TWO RESULTS

amazing.!

I started off with google. I typed in my first and last name without quotations and no luck there. I then put quotations and google pulled up 4 results. One pertained to me, and it was a link to the white pages. From that, never-before-would-I-have-thought-of facts such as my name ranked 3,476 in line in the United States.. (whose number #1... ?!?!?) to more relevant facts such as my physical address and home phone! were proudly displayed...

I proceeded to yahoo. With the tune in mind.. yaaaa--hoooo-oo.. I typed in my name, and voila.. no results that pertain to me.! That's right. I do not exist in yahoo web world.

To complete my vanity search, I went on intelius.com a site that I had never heard of until my current professor mentioned it. During class he conducted a vanity search on intelius and we found out his age, wife's name, and other relatives. Beyond figuring out a solution to 405 traffic congestion or world hunger, people have time to plug all this data on people they have never met.?!? amazing! so there I was on my results page on intelius. It didn't reveal my age or any of my relatives. Why not?!? I couldn't help but undergo a juxatposition between more of my information being there versus hardly there. I quickly took the latter. There's some sort of relief in knowing that there isn't too much out there about me.

I guess not putting out too much information on myself out there has paid-off a tad. Then again google's search enging is such a go-getter, it will find a link on almost anything! I even took the liberty of googling my blogs name mindful biz and a 27 year old guy popped up... ?!?

in any case, I think I win. They really don't have too much of me out there and I'm happy about that.

*Privacy really isn't that private if no one's after it....*