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People Were More Likely To Google Themselves This Year
Ponca City, We Love You writes "More than twice as many Americans googled themselves in 2006 than five years previous — and many are googling their friends and romantic interests as well, according to a report released ecently by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The survey shows that the percentage of US adult Internet users who have looked for information about themselves through Google or another search engine has more than doubled in the past five years (pdf) from 22 percent in August, 2001 to 47 percent in December, 2006. Only 3 percent of internet self-googlers say they Google themselves regularly, 22 percent say 'every once in a while,' and three-quarters say they have googled themselves once or twice. The original report, 'Digital Footprints,' contains many more interesting observations (pdf)."
I hear they have that on computers now.
people were always more likely to ___________ themselves this year
Jesus saves souls and redeems them for valuable cash prizes
I've been googling myself at a pretty steady frequency since about the time I turned 13!
thats right, I rarely use capitals. deal with it. but don't mistake my laziness for stupidity
Apparently I'm not a writer but a prolific techno god in Russia. This is exciting news.
I much prefer having other people google me. So much more satisfying.
Yes, but only because Slashdot has started googling itself for stories to post.
With a homepage like that on your profile, I can see how you've maintained an impressive 30:1 ratio! :)
Read my Very Short "Stories"
usually find some interesting stuff, and google images always has the best pics of me. (SafeSearch is Off)
I happen to "google" myself in the shower every morning, but it's not exactly newsworthy.
Man, how many of us used our real names when talking about all kinds of crazy shit back in the day... I did, and regret it to this day. Especially on usenet. OH man hehe. On the web my real name is only good stuff, published articles, interviews, technical stuff from listservs, etc. On usenet? Holy fuck. Flame wars, drugs, sex, all kinds of really embarrassing stuff.
Self Googling will make you blind.
Cmdr Taco googling himself would come up with 5 million references to "Lame". :P
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Michael Bolton, is that you??
Did I say overlords? I meant protectors.
This article is almost identical to one from 1977, except that one said:
"More than twice as many Americans xeroxed themselves in 1976 than five years previous -- and many are xeroxing their friends and romantic interests as well, according to a report released recently by the Pew Copyrigh and American Life Project.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Or to add "-naked".