Googling For Prospective Date Unmasks Fugitive

pgrote writes "So you're a guy on the run - you decide to switch towns, put down some roots and start dating again. But if your special new friend happens to be someone who checks her potential dates by searching on Google, you're in trouble. Seems that LaShawn Pettus-Brown was caught by his date's discovery of him on an FBI site of fugitives, even after local Cincinnati news media couldn't find him. Score one for the Internet."

Comments

phew!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow. That's even worse than finding your wifes picture on a dating site!!!

rofl!

[f13nd]

owned by a geek-chick

Technology is a double edged sword..

[grub]

1980: Do you have Herpes?

1986: Do you have AIDS?

1995: I have pepper spray.

2004: I have Google.

Oh well.. at least RealDolls can't use search engines.. yet..

Re:Technology is a double edged sword..

[thdougherty]

Oh if only I knew of RealDolls before I got married...

They're so lifelike!!!

Major Major Major

[Anonymous Coward]

Man, I bet this guy is wishing his parents had given him a more common name than "LaShawn Pettus-Brown"...

Re:Major Major Major

[robbyjo]

I bet this guy is wishing his parents had given him a more common name

Yeah, like... Anonymous Coward... That would score 138K hits in Google

You have to wonder

[nizo]

If your potential date discovers you sell penis enlargement items on the internet for a living, will that help or hurt your chances?

Re:BE CAREFUL OF LINK!

[Anonymous Coward]

Porn? It's not porn! It's just a website where lonely geeks can find a friend who is rather...easy to burst into flames if too close to a fire. That's discrimination, brother!

Unbelievably cheap bastard

[SysKoll]

From the article: The city lost more than $184,000 on the project after investing heavily in Pettus-Brown's failed plan to rehabilitate the 90-year-old theater on Vine Street. The FBI has said that nearly $93,000 of the money the city paid Pettus-Brown is missing.

So the guy steals about 100K and invites a date to freaking Applebee?! EIther he's really a cheap bastard or he already spent it all.

Men these days. You cannot even get a French restaurant date out of a rich thief anymore.

Googling for dates?

[artemis67]

Hmmm... could be interesting... lemesee...

+blonde +thirtysomething +"blue eyes" -kids +"36 24 36" -smoker +5'11" +model +"into geeky guys"

Wha? Zero results?

Re:Googling for dates?

[utahjazz]

Afer triimming this down to "+blonde, +"blue eyes" - kids - smoker +model +"into geeky guys", Google said:

Do you mean "+blonde, +"blue eyes" - kids - smoker +modell +"Greek guys"?

My God that's dissapointing, Damn racist computer program engine favors some crappy island over it's own maker.

I think Captian Kirk had something to say on the subject. Can't...find...link....

Re:IQ test

[eric2hill]

I called our phone company at work and asked if they sold Caller IQ because, as I explained, there are many idiots at our office and I would like to screen my callers based on their IQ. The sales person didn't have it available yet. Dammit.

Maybe it works the other way as well.

[Karplusan]

Hmmm, so if girls check google on their guys... Say, how does one go about getting their webpage put in the top of Google? I was thinking of trying to register http://www.heisthebest.com/ and of course, put my name all over it. I see no flaws in my plan.

Re:BE CAREFUL OF LINK!

[martinX]

who the hell would look at naked dolls

Ken?

Re:I had a similar experience

[AvantLegion]

If you're not superstitious or spooked by that sort of stuff, it's a great way to get a cheap house.

Not to mention the Coolest House Evar.

Charge goths and New Age geeks to hold seances there every Thursday night. Pretty soon, the already-cheap house will pay itself off!

Built-in excuse to keep away unwanted guests! "No, mother of my wife, I don't think you should stay, because our house reeks of death."

Great for scaring children and keeping them out of the flower beds! "Yes Billy, the owner of the house before the Johnsons really did die in there".

The possibilities are endless. There need to be real estate websites with these sort of listings! Heck, when the next Dot-Com era comes, I'll start one!

Just don't post it to Slashdot using your name

[xixax]

... and several other convictions of assult and death threats. So the moral of the story is, if you have suspicions, it doesn't hurt to take 1 minute to run a quick google search.

Just don't post the results to Slashdot using your real name in case your neighbours are also using Google to check you out.

Maybe seed Google with your own bogus details, "John is Amish and does not own any consumer electronics worth stealing, he has a black belt in Karate and breeds rattlesnakes as a hobby..."

Xix.

Data minning 101

[Felinoid]

The problem with the search is it's way too spec.

All a girl has to be is an inch off and the search fails.
Also if she says "I'm into brainy guys", "I'm into nerdy guys" or "Geeks make me hot" the search fails... Not that I'd expect anyone to say "geeks make me hot" just giving an example...

As for the "Into geek guys" forget it she's gone by now... Every Slashdot geek had sent her a preposal.... well ok I'm more a tweek thow.. (Diffrence between me and a geek? I've got less brains and I'm insain...).

+blonde +thirtysomething +"blue eyes" -kids +"36 24 36" -smoker +5'11" +model +"into geeky guys"

Ok let's try remaking this to be a more realistic search ok?

+blonde This is fine.. Every "yellow" haired woman calls herself blonde.

+thirtysomething Changes are you'll get her exact age why should she even bother with the term "thirtysomething" strike it..

+"blue eyes" ok... A bit exssesive but the search would work...

-kids This is vage enough it will block all "with kids" it will also knock out "Not ready for kids" or "can't stand kids"... But it's a reasonable filter we can knock it out later.. if needed.

"36 24 36" Are we searching for a date or giving specs for a fembot? Human beings aren't going to fit an exact mold. Strike it...

-smoker Like kids this filters "I am a smoker" and "I am not a smoker"... This is probably not the kind of thing you want to filter... Leave it in for first search.

+5'11" Ahem.. So if she's 5'10" or 6'" your not intrested?
+5' This will give you everyone who is 5 foot...

+model Ahem.. are we searching for dates or phone sex? If she says she's a model she is eather lying or to busy to actually date.
Strike it...

+"into geeky guys" Way to detailed... She'd have to actually use that exact phrase.

Try just +geek.. This will scoop up "I'm a geek girl looking for a geek guy"

Now we have: +blonde +"blue eyes" -kids +5' +geek

1,630 results.... Exelent...
Now I can screen them by hand for... dear god no Huston we have a problem.

+woman

1,060 results... Good.

Let's trim this down a tad +female. The search results still had to many guys "looking for a woman"... Just need to imprint on the search the importance of finding a FEMALE date..

Ok to many unrelated results... Oh sure I like "Buffy the vampire slayer" but reading about how much fans like Spike dose not get me anywhere.

+dating

Well.. I'll ferther refine this but that will be to my personal tasts...
Damn it thow.. I find a post on Japanise intrested in western and it's Japanise MEN looking for western wemen.
Oh the +blond thing kinda makes that not happen anyway.

I'm srapping "blue eyes" becouse I don't care about eye color.. Then add +California becouse that is where I live.

424 results... I'll be refining this all freaking night...

Well I found this nifty link and I can finish my search that way.

And that is how you ue google to find a date.
Oh dear god I'm pathetic... Finding dates by computer... I'm affrade I need to bash my self senseless now.