Search Engine: Google
Keyword: Melissa Oster
Results:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/574/726
http://center.spoke.com/info/index-person/or-ov-76
http://denver.citysearch.com/profile/37194762/denver_co/oster_jewelers.html
http://www.5280.com/2007/popping_question/3.php
http://insyncmagazine.com/pdf/9_2_2005/9_2_oster_jewelers.pdf
Summary:
When I searched google with my first and last name I came up with two people named Melissa Oster. One seemed to be a woman from San Francisco in working for Hewitt- Packard. The other was a woman in Denver, Colorado and she owned a jewelry company with her husband Jeremy Oster.
Search Engine: Yahoo
Keyword: Melissa Mae Oster
Results:
http://www.myspace.com/alicatrox
http://www.vienici.com/lasociete/obituaries_courier/2005/m02February.html
http://courses.washington.edu/psyblm/ExamSeating.html
http://www.ndsu.edu/ndsu/deott/univ_senate/sm200102/m200109a4.pdf
http://www.exsmo.com/museum/database/surnames_nz.txt
Summary:
When I searched Yahoo with full name the first link that came up was my best friend’s myspace page that had my name listed within her page. The rest of the pages that came up were not matching exactly with my name, but with similar names like Melissa Mae, or people with the middle name of Mae, and someone else with the last name Oster.
Search Engine: Dogpile.com
Keyword: Melissa Oster
Results:
http://www.householdappliance.com/oster.html
http://insyncmagazine.com/pdf/9_2_2005/9_2_oster_jewelers.pdf
http://www.cherrycreeknorth.com/viewpage.asp?ID=119
http://www.bestclippers.com/oshairclip.html
http://cfapp2.rockymountainnews.com/toprocky/results.cfm?oper=preview&cat_id=611&sec=5
Summary:
When I searched on Dogpile.com with the keywords Melissa Oster I first came up with an advertisement for the “Oster” brand for appliances. Then I got a few of the same articles about the Melissa Oster in Denver, Colorado who owns a jeweler company.
Search Engine: The University of Arizona
Keyword: Melissa Oster
Results:
http://www.arizona.edu/phonebook/search.cgi?dbkey=107211520946
http://www.ugrad.eller.arizona.edu/careernews/2006/april/10.htm
http://www.law.arizona.edu/Journals/ALR/ALR2003/vol451/Diamond.pdf
http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9806a&L=tawl&P=5066
http://www.law.arizona.edu/Journals/AJICL/AJICL2005/vol222/Schurtman%20Formatted.pdf
Summary:
When I searched for Melissa Oster on the University of Arizona website the first link that was shown was a phonebook directory of my address and phone number. The second link that was shown was for a job posting that I had put up on the career site for anybody who attended the UofA who might have been looking for an internship in Scottsdale over the summer. I was leaving the company and looking for someone to replace me. The rest of the links were not my exact name but only people with the last name of Oster or first name of Melissa.
Reaction:
As I was searching through these different search engines for my name, it was interesting to see that there were other Melissa Oster’s out there. It is weird to think about someone else having the exact name you have, especially since my last name is somewhat unique, I wouldn’t have expected someone else to have my exact name, but it seems that at least two people in this country do. I would like to know the Melissa Oster that has a jeweler company. Maybe she could give me some free jewelry!. It was also very interesting to search on the University of Arizona website and see my contact information come up. That is something I am not sure I want to be so accessible on the Internet. Also, that the job posting that I had listed last summer at my internship came up was interesting. I had forgotten that I had done that. Overall, this assignment was interesting to see the different things that came up on the different search engines. I’m glad none of my personal information came up when I searched google and yahoo. Those are popular sites, and I don’t want people to be able to search my private information so freely. I as a little surprised that my myspace page did not pop up, but I assume that is because it is set to private.
3 comments:
Yea, i also find it interesting that their are a lot of people with the same first and last name. Its kinda creepy haha. Sometimes we'll find that certain search engines are more of a local database, such as the U of A.(It stays within the University resources)
That would be funny if you contacted the other Melissa and she gave you some of her jewelry. It's weird to find that other people have the same name. My search was kind of like yours, I didn't find much about myself but I did find a lot of hits on UNO the card game. Over all it was an intresting find.
I have to agree with you on that. I know that I am glad that none of my personal information came up when searching yahoo or google. That is interesting? I too was wondering why my MySpace did not show up?
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