Discussion » Does google still love Cal?

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Posted by Meatwood Flack, around 15th August 2008:
 
It's a lot harder to accidentally find oneself on iamca via google than it used to be. And all I wanted to do was look at some riddles.

Just wondering, because I was going to tell a story of mistaken identity and the like, but as it involves a legal threat made towards me I thought it'd be best to check - I will of course change names to protect the innocent, and I don't think the legal case would ever stand up... but it's worth checking!
Posted by syl, around 15th August 2008:
 
Ah, no. You can't leave us high and dry like that.
Posted by syl, around 15th August 2008:
 
/nosy
Posted by eatmypiano, around 15th August 2008:
 
Google knows way too much about me. I always like the first one this finds though: www.googlism.com/index.htm?...
Posted by Saltation, around 15th August 2008:
 
try putting 
site:iamcal.com
in the google search box, before the text you're trying to find. this will restrict the query to only searching iamcal.
Posted by Meatwood Flack, around August 2008:
 
Let's have a try:

lubbocklubbockappleintheass1110
Posted by Meatwood Flack, around August 2008:
 
www.google.co.uk/search?q=l...

Your search - lubbocklubbockappleintheass1110 - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

* Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
* Try different keywords.
* Try more general keywords.

Hell yeah!
Posted by syl, around August 2008:
 
Google doesn't like B3ta either.

www.b3ta.com/talk/5323165

www.google.co.za/search?hl=...
Posted by syl, around August 2008:
 
Doc, apparently it takes a day or two for stuff to show up on google. I see the B3ta one is now showing, but still not the iamcal one.
Posted by Meatwood Flack, around August 2008:
 
www.google.co.uk/search?hl=...

www.google.co.uk/search?hl=...

Sal: That's interesting - but seems to mean my avoiding search engine may still be working...
Posted by Meatwood Flack, around August 2008:
 
On that note; here's the story. So you know one of the people I like to call myself is Luucy Rcord? Well, that's been a pseudonym I've used for about eight years - and in the passage of time, I'd forgotten that Lcucy was actually a real person - and the thumbnail I use for her was actually a picture of her. It's some random picture we downloaded back in the early days of the iinternet... but as I've always used it as a pseudonym, I didn't think there would be anything different with using it to set up a faceboke account - except of course what started happening is all her old friends started getting in touch with me! This all seemed like fun until, well, the inevitable happened. I started getting various messages from the Rceord family as someone was impersonating L.R. Sugar! They were threatening legal action - but in the end faceboke removed the profile, so I think all's well... I'm just hoping they're not going to leap to the conclusion that someone may have been impersonating her any more than that and start chasing down all the other Lcucy Rceords... on the plus side, I'm probably the last person they may suspect!

oops. Ah well, hopefully that's the end of that chapter ... but not an ideal situation to get legal threats about. Anyone know about the legal status of this?
Posted by syl, around August 2008:
 
I don't know, sorry Doc. What about people who have the same name? You can't claim rights to a name surely? I mean, John Smith? There must be millions.
Posted by Meatwood Flack, around August 2008:
 
I think it was the name combined with the picture that caused the problems!
Posted by syl, around August 2008:
 
Haha! Yes, I guess so.
Posted by Saltation, around August 2008:
 
www.google.co.uk/search?hl=...

works a treat now

but i note from using just "lubbock" that google is now being parsimonious on matches: it doesn't pick up lubbocklubbocketc, which it once would have done. neither is any wildcard supported: you can't search on lubbock*, for example.

possibly an unlooked-for artefact of the stemword functionality? (which is otherwise somewhere b/w nifty and awesome)

can't think of any way round this. implies you now have to be precise in your memory of particular search terms.
Posted by Sul, around 24th August 2008:
 
Is this now the death of Loosey Record? I didn't think anything could kill a Doc alter-ego. I feel saddened.
Posted by syl, around 24th August 2008:
 
It's ok. We can re-christen her Loosey Rekord.
Posted by Meatwood Flack, around August 2008:
 
Hmmm... we shall see. Nothing can kill an alter-ego for long ... and I'm sure she shall return. Although possibly not on Faceboke...
Posted by Saltation, around August 2008:
 
or wikipedia