Monday, September 19, 2005

I Never Wanted To Be Able To Say

I never wanted to be able to say that I had looked myself up on the Internet. Oh well, at least I can truly say that it was for a class assignment. I first searched google since it is a main stream engine. Not much there under the name Erica Mokry. I tried a few variations from the advanced search (using Boolean) and the only places I found that were related to directly to me were the student blogs for this class (cpsc 104)and the geneaology page of the Schier family, which I found a little creepy since I have never heard of them and they had all this impersonal information about whom begot whom. Not directly related to me were a few things about my sister especially about the swimsuit/model competition she just finished, plenty of Czech sites (my lasts name is Czech and means "wet" unfortunately, so there were a few Czech porn sites that came up as well - - sorry not giving a link to those. I then tried a few directories like Yahoo, Open Directory, and Look Smart, with little to no success (again using Erica Mokry and variations thereof). Through a yahoo people search I found I could buy a background check through Intelius.com, but it couldn't find me on its people search. Through that same search I found my public email address, and it still shows that I live in Olive Branch, MS, guess I need to change that.
I then checked my most common user name and found a few more results, such as my two blogs, blogrings, launchcast radio station, comments I left on others' blogs, and website memberships. I was surprised that my Yahoo!groups didn't come up though. I found slightly more on google than I did on yahoo, though. Overall, it was long search for not much information. I know that my Internet research skills are in dire need of improvement, because I know there is more out there than I found, though I'm doing this from more of a perspective of someone who doesn't really know me, since I could just look up the more specific places that would have my name.

1 Comments:

Blogger Jenn said...

It was very smart to search your most common user names. That didn't even enter into my mind when I thought of searching for myself.

11:19 PM  

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