Googling Myself: An Online Experiment

Out of curiosity, I Googled my name to see what was out there in cyber space. I’ve done this in the past a few times with very little results, but this time I found a lot of stuff. Maybe the word is getting out there that Ardell is taking over the world famous a nut case interesting?

Starting with a shorten version of my name, I found the following:

• Page 1
  • My name listed on a Jordan (.jo) domain whois
  • A picture of my drunken days at college (I thought I buried all those?)
• Page 3
  • My name listed on the LTTG website as the leader of the GPS ministry
• Page 4
  • A post on an online family genealogy forum I made several years back

Now, same search engine but with the longer version of my name:

• Page 1
  • The LTTG website
  • The family genealogy forum post
  • An .EE (Estonia) domain whois
  • The transcript of Moyer’s On America “Is God Green?” TV show quoting me

My quote is even more meaningful now then in 2006:

"Normally in the past I've voted one party. I've actually taken a step back and looking at the new elections coming up. I have to stop and say well, I can't just vote straight party. I've got to actually – there's a broader issue at stake."

• [@more@]Page 2
  • The 41 website listing me as an alumni

Now as we all know, Google isn’t the only search engine (just the best). So I decided to try that small engine called Yahoo. Starting the same way with the short version of my name, I found:

• Nothing

Hmmm….. maybe this proves my side remarks? Not to give up, I tried the fuller version:

• Page 1
  • LTTG website
  • My Amazon wish list
  • An old missions article that I wrote for Latin America Missions
    • I’m going to post it here later on… so no link right now
• Page 2
  • The class syllabus from a Micro-enterprise class I help teach at LU
• Page 3
  • The Moyer’s transcript
• Page 4
  • An .EE (Estonia) domain whois
• Page 5
  • An article about our 2004 trip to the Philippians on my church’s website
• Page 6
  • The family genealogy forum post

I guess I will have to eat some crow… Yahoo did find some things that Google didn’t. sigh

The good news is that I didn’t find any criminal records, warrants or other wise harmful items. (if you don’t count that one picture….)