A friend of mine from college dropped by my city not too long ago. As chance would have it, a mutual friend gave me the heads up and I was able to contact my college friend and take her out to dinner. On the way to dinner, she turned to me and said something on the order of, “I’m so glad we got to meet up! I was wondering if you still lived here, but I had no way to contact you. I looked you up on the internet and couldn’t find you.”
Which made me wonder, what internet? I’m one of the most googable people I know. If you just google Lacey — nothing else — I am on the second page. If you google my real name, I’m the first hit (followed by two pages of mostly me in various forms), and if you google Lacey Kaye there’s two solid pages of me. So who was she looking for?
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April 26th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Lacy Comanche
April 26th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Thanks! That will help all the people who misspell my name. Brilliant!
April 27th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
ROFL Mami K!!!
April 28th, 2008 at 5:22 am
Lacy Kay?
You know, it might’ve just been one of those things people say when they don’t know what to say. *shrug*
April 28th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Mami K, that was hilarious!
April 28th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Mami K, you rock. Can I say how great it is to be best friends with the “cool kid.” Two solid pages? Color me hella impressed!
April 29th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Darcy, have you never googled yourself? You have 2 pages, too! (And you go at least as far back as page 4, after which I felt my point was proven.)
And BE, I think that’s what it was. At the time, I got my feelings hurt because to me that was so outright untrue. But I guess she probably thought it was better than admitting she was just coming up to go to her conference. I think the fact that I made it easy for her to get in touch with me helped — not that she didn’t want to see me, but that she didn’t want to add that effort on top of the stress of a conference.
Laci Kumanchick?
April 29th, 2008 at 9:08 am
How about me? I spawned this ball of fire, and now I have at least a passing acquaintance with some of the rest of you go-getters! I am big time proud!
I spend a lot of time Googling all of you to see what you are up to! It’s fun… and often very interesting.