To answer this question, I started with typing “Lindsay” into a Google Search. Thanks to Google Instant, the first three suggested searches were: Lindsay Lohan, Lindsay McCormick, and Lindsay Lohan jail. I guess I am not famous enough to make the search predictions. C’est la vie.
A Google search of “Lindsay Bembenek” (without the quote marks, mind you) yielded mostly results directing to me. Unfortunately, Lindsay Frost played Bambi Bembenek in the Lifetime Movie “The Bambi Bembenek Story” (for the record: no, I’m not related) so this result popped up more than I’d like. I then decided to employ a bit of Boolean logic and added the quotation marks around my name. This limited results exclusively to the ‘real me’ sprinkled with a couple finds for a first-grade teacher in
Continuing on with the Boolean search, the first hit for my name links to my Twitter page. This is not surprising since my Twitter handle is “LindsayBembenek” and I use it often. The next sites were my LinkedIn profile, a Facebook profile (though not mine, I’m guessing that teacher in
As far as the image search goes, results produced a number of random images but also thumbnails of Twitter pages I follow, my friends’ Facebook profile pictures, and a couple random pictures I had been tagged in. I think the common thread for the pictures I had been tagged in is that all of these pictures are uploaded as part of a public Facebook group. I am a little disappointed that the image I use for both my Twitter and LinkedIn profiles was not among the results.
The search results that make me the most uneasy are Twitter clients that link to specific tweets I have posted. I am very aware that all of my tweets are public, so it does not bother me that they are available per se. It just seems weird that TweetFeed.com has a search for “
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