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On 7 Jul 2005 14:03:10 -0700, BobEdwards wrote:
> Speaking of Google, Can someone tell me how to do a search on a
> person? I have a fairly common name and when I enter it on the google
> search line I get hundreds of pages. Is there a way to narrow it down?
Well, dooh, change your name to something extremely uncommon! :-)
No?
Then: add your your city and/or state -- depending on how
common _they_ are.
E.g.: [ "Marvin Jones" Wyoming ] (306) is going to be Way More Useful
than: [ "Marvin Jones" "New York"] (13,800).
Try adding 'things' of professional and/or avocational interest --
the 'thing' other folks might use when referring to you.
Use Advance Search: http://www.google.com/advanced_search
and use the "without the words" entry to eliminate the most obvious
'noise' you see as you review the "useless" hits. (E.g., a SysAdmin
I used to deal with is named Charlie Watts. The 'noise' there was
from The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts. Putting 'drum' and
'Stones' in that entry cleaned up most of _that_ 'noise'.)
(Now I gotta go see what those 306 Wyoming references are all about....)
Jonesy
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