You’re a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well
Kevin J. Delaney from The Wall Street Journal wrote an article called You’re a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well in which he explains what people nowadays take into consideration in terms of naming their child.
Obviously it pays to be special if you want to be found easily on search find engines such as Google. But I don’t know whether this is a valid criterion when you’re thinking about naming your child.
But since being googleable gets more and more important—well, perhaps it is 
There are in fact a few more Julian Schraders out there, but I own the search results. And isn’t ruling the results at least as good as being that special that there is no competition?
http://google.com/search?q=Julian%20Schrader
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But having name googled well, means no privacy anymore in some cases.
Sure. But through having a name that’s googling well, you can (to some extent) affect the results by own publishings.
It’s of course at least a two edged thing‚Ķ
Hello Julian!
First I want to say, that I really enjoy in your Blog. You always write very interesting articles about very different thinks – about something you found in the net, about Apple-systems etc.
But know back to topic:
I think google & co. are definitive very important. A few moth ago I read, personnal manager use search engines to light their applicants. What does he/ she in his lazy time etc.? So conceal your “Google-Image”?
Thanks! It’s always nice to receive positive feedback!
As I wrote before, I understand that there are two sides of the coin. And therefore there are at least to possibilities to cope with this—whether you call it a problem or not:
One is to do nothing on the web with your real name—the difficulties arise as soon as somebody else publishes content that relates to you/contains your name.
The other one in my opinion is to publish goal-oriented content to actively impact the information about you that someone may find via Google & co.
Regardless of the way you choose to go: Google yourself every now and then and try to clean up the results…