Have You Contacted Your Googleganger?


Updated 07/29/09 5:53 PM · Posted by GeekSugar · 19 comments

Have You Contacted Your Googleganger?

Google fuels our most narcissistic urges — I few quick taps and you can see what (if anything) has been published about you on the Internet. But sometimes, a fun thing happens, and you find your Googleganger— someone who shares your same first and last name. I have a Googleganger myself — a writer of bad poetry that my boyfriend mistook for me early on in our relationship. And just today my Read more

Definition: Googleganger


Updated 11/18/08 4:33 AM · Posted by GeekSugar · 12 comments

Googleganger

Similar to a doppelganger, who is your physical twin, a Googleganger is someone "with the same name as you whose records and/or stories are mixed in with your own when you Google yourself." True story: When I started dating my boyfriend, he Googled me, only to find someone with the same name as me who wrote awful amateur love poetry. Luckily, he liked me enough to see past the terrible poems — Read more