Fun game: go to Google or MSN Search, and find out how many people on the Internet share your name. And if you really want to stroke your ego, see if you're the first hit when you search on your name.
Among my doppelgangers: a Scottish reporter, a spokesperson for the Berkeley police department, a UK environmental consultant, a guy with a car he's pretty proud of, a marketing consultant in Palo Alto, and a cytotechnologist at Yale. Some other ones too.
I never expected there would be that many Kevin Schofields, particularly outside of Ireland. :-) I hope that none of them are pissed at me for running roughshod over the top end of the relevancy ranking.
I Googled my dad, and he popped up first too, with an interesting article I hadn't read before (and a mention of my twin daughters at the end). It's actually a very accurate summary of his career.
Alas, my mother, brother and sister don't fare as well.
It all does point out how much more work there is to do in search engines though -- wouldn't it be great if the computer could collate all the references to the same person and give you a consolidated view that you could expand to see all the references to each person? It's a great research problem (read: super hard), one that I know some of MSR's researchers have thought about from time to time. We'll get there. Someday.
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