ø ø ø Who Googled Me? Watch the video to try and find out who’s searching for you…
Want to know who’s Googling you? Read on for tips to get closer to finding out…
It was pretty cool to watch this video about finding out who has Googled or is Googling you, your proper name, that is.
And not just because the news report about reverse Google lookup is from my sweet home Chicago, but because trying to find out who Googled me is something I do often.
Who’s Googling you?
The news report mentioned a few websites to help try and track down who’s Googling you:
1 – Profile Snitch
2 – Naymz
3 – Ziggs
I’ve never tried those sites, but I have used the following techniques to try and track down who’s Googling me.
More ways to track down who Googled you
I’m used to seeing people Google my name pretty much daily, just because I have such a strong web presence and websites with my name on them.
I use the free StatCounter.com — a great site that gives me free code to put on my websites, then gives me real-time search terms people have typed in to find me.
Like the video says, from this info you don’t get proper names, but you will get a city, state, or even international location — including the IP (or internet protocol) address of the person Googling you.
And I’ve seen the person’s place of employment come thru at times as well.
One time I found on that someone from Google themselves had Googled me!
Reverse Google Lookup?
It would be cool if it were as easy as hitting *69 on our phones, but it’s not. I’ve yet to find an actual name of a person from an IP address, but there are Whois IP address look up search tools like this one that will at least give you more info.
For example, I just popped in someone’s IP address and found out they were from Duke University.
Maybe only super-techies and the FBI have ways of getting down to specific Googler locations, but it may give you a better idea of who your frequent Googlers might be.
In the meantime, it’s always a good idea to set up your own free blog on Blogger.com or somewhere with your name in the title and URL (the dot com name) just so you can get a little control of your own name online.
And another good way to find out who’s at least writing about you online, if you have a not-so-common name like mine, that is, is to set up a Google Alert with your name in it.
For example, I have a bunch of Google Alerts set up to email me right away with a lot of search terms I’m interested in: Two of which are “Paula Mooney” and “Paula Neal Mooney” — just to know what’s going on.
And it doesn’t hurt to Google your own name once and a while.
Hopefully all these tips will help you come closer to finding out who’s Googling you…
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September 28th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
According to what I read on the web, Ziggs is supposed to tell you who is googling your name. I signed up to see how they do that. What they do is provide you with the location of the machine that landed on their website to view your profile, from a link in Google. So, it’s not exactly as advertised. It’s based solely on traffic to their site, and not results in Google. This is no different than checking the stats on my website to see who came there.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Hi Barbara
Its never good to mis-advertise. However, the service is a good one – I know because you can get a similar service totally free at our site http://WikiWorldBook.com which is a People Search engine with Global Address Book.
You should appear high up in the Google results / SERP’s, unless you have a very common name, so there would be a natural inclination for anyone looking for you specifically to click on “Barbara’s Profile”.
You are right about checking the stats of your own website, but the difference with these services is that people don’t have to set up a website in their own name, set up the analytics, set up the messaging system with antispam etc etc – it just takes one minute to register instead.
Essentially, our service enables you to create a profile which is easily found by anyone looking for you using the search engines like Google. You are sent a Search Alert email if someone Googles you and clicks through to your profile. You should be able to see the geographical location of the searcher, their IP address, what business or organisation they are at if that’s where they are based, the actual search engine and the keywords used to find you.
The service also enables members to be easily contacted by old friends and colleagues without themselves being registered via the website’s messaging system. The member’s own email contact details are hidden, so they don’t risk it being seen by spammers and the messages are forwarded to the member by email.
January 12th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
wierd very much
lollll
just had to f****** write this