Vanity search

So today I was reading through my team members' blogs and I stumbled upon a fun article on Lydia's page. She wrote an article about Vanity Searches on Google. Here is Lydia's article on Vanity Search. Since we are supposed to take one of our team mates' articles and continue the blog about it on our site, I thought this would be a fun article to do.
When I searched my name on Google here are the things that came up: The first thing was the UD sailing website, I am the fundraising chair for the sailing team and my name is on the officer's roster. The second thing on the list is my blog for Info tech class!! Yay for extra credit points! The Wikipedia article I created is next, I was a bit surprised that this showed up on the list. Followed by several pages that show sailing results from regattas i sailed in. My high school graduation as well as articles in the school newspaper in which I was quoted.
It is fun and interesting to do a vanity search on Google to see what exactly the world can find out about you at a push of a button. This is an important thing to keep in mind anytime you add content on the web because you don't know what the Google bot can find and how far the Bot will journey in cyberspace to find those incriminating photos of you that may cost you your next job. It is becoming a trend for people to use this tool to find information on others before going on a blind date, or hiring someone for a job opening. You never know who is looking.
Aside from being paranoid that people will find out all of your information, this may also be a useful tool. For example if you have a blog, like me for example, and want the world to see the work that you have done on making that blog oh so wonderful, it pays to have to Google bot find you. For more tips on how to get Google juice read my previous post. (Look at that! I even used one of the hints I mentioned in that article where I said link to your old posts to generate the juice! I'm on to you Google bot...mmwahaha)
In the mean time its alright to admit that all of us are a tad bit shallow, so hop on to Google and see what secrets the little bot dug up about you.