Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Vanity Search

When doing a vanity search, it's hard to refine my results without entering information that I would only know. Just searching my full name, came up with random websites and random facebook pages that didn't belong to me. When I entered "Alexandria Vaughn Olympia" it came up with one site that applied to me. It was the third listed site and it was an article from The Olympian listing my name as a student from Olympia High School that made the deans list at their university. There was no other personal information except for which University I went to. There are many circumstances that could come in to play when finding my information and being able to fill out a form with just searching. For example if I wasn't myself but I was a student at University of Washington, I could find my information on the University's directory. Or if I knew the names of my blog, google plus, twitter, or facebook URL, I could search those. More often than not, I use the same usernames/urls for my accounts so when I searched "alexvaughnn" it came up with my google plus, and my twitter account. I had previously done a vanity search so I knew what keywords to type in to come up with results that actually applied to me. If I search in google images the URL of my blog the majority of the results are pictures that I posted on my blog of myself or of things I'm interested in.

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