How many hits do you get if you enter your name in google search?

325,000 with quotes, 6,500,000 without. I have kind of a common name.

I have 729 and I'm 20 years old, they're all me because my name is unique. Mostly running and swimming results

Ed Whitlock gets 10,900 when you put his name in quotes. That's the only way to run this comparison.

I get 26,900 when I put my (real) name in quotes. I have an unusual name and they're all for me.

I have a rare name...I've researched it and found only one other person with it (first and last). I get 29,3000 hits without quotes around the name, 777 with. As enormous as all of these numbers you guys are quoting may be, there are still people I know who manage to not show up on google at all.

Wow. I am a gerontologist, a fauvist painter, a corrupt city manager and a a political event. Who knew?

949 hits with no quotes

15 hits with quotes

grubinski wrote:

I get 3180 with my name in quotes, and my home page is at the top of the list.

I am the most important person with my name that's ever lived.

That tells you how (un)common my name is, not how important I am. :-)

On the other side of things, with quotes my name gets ~94,000 hits, and I don't show up until page 30. I'm a pretty unimportant person with my fairly common name.

The other people with my name are a pretty eclectic bunch:

-A lawyer who works on legalizing marijauna;

-An author who writes books about torture; and

-A baronet who was poking the Queen of England back in the 1800's.

I only come up with about 400. Interesting looking through though because I found discussions about me on another website which was a nice ego booster!

1,970,000

I have a common name so I get about 1.66 million hits when I use "Joe" as my first name and 1.7 million when I use "Joseph". The number drops considerably if I put the full name within quotation marks.

The first entry that refers to me appears anywhere from 3rd to 7th on the list of results, depending upon which method I use.

268 with quotations.

Most hits are my race results and miscelanous letters to the editor I've written and such but a few are some random dude that fixes cars in Kentucky apparently.

Mister xxx wrote:

Ed Whitlock 1.32 million, Ron Hill 6.14 million, even Alex Vero gets 2.27 million but I get 794. Anyone get less than that or over a few million?

I tried it once...besides being a fairly common name, it's also the name of a current player in American League Baseball. I had to go a s***load of pages before finding myself listed in the Boston Marathon and in a couple of other big races. When I enter my name on marathonguide.com, there are easily 20 other marathoners with whom I share a first and last name.

At 52, I'm faster than all of them. Even the twenty-somethings. Life is good on the web.

Is your name Hideki Okajima by chance?

The World Under My Feet wrote:

I tried it once...besides being a fairly common name, it's also the name of a current player in American League Baseball. I had to go a s***load of pages before finding myself listed in the Boston Marathon and in a couple of other big races. When I enter my name on marathonguide.com, there are easily 20 other marathoners with whom I share a first and last name.

At 52, I'm faster than all of them. Even the twenty-somethings. Life is good on the web.

Real Name:

444 with quotes

2,040,000 sans quotes

Letsrun Name:

60,200

2,070,000

I get 11,700 when I enter my letsrun handle. If I change the K to a C, I get 111,000. My actual name gets 1,400,000.

903 (using quotation marks)

I was chastened to discover I don't show up until page 2, with a smattering of professional references. My first race result is on page 3, but it's a good one, crediting me with a "new master's course record" (full disclosure: it's a small trail race in an out-of-the-way place).

My doppelgangers include a management consultant, a pharmacist, and a pediatrician.

600,000 with quotes 1,450,000 without quotes. Every result I saw was for a very famous NBA coach of the same name.