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The Power of Google...and An Unusual Name

Several weeks ago, someone hacked into my site, and my family has listened, as I have been working on "tracking Hacker down" the culprit and making some changes to insure that it doesn't happen again.

The other day, my 11-year old called me and said, "Mother, I found him!...that guy who hacked into your site!...I googled my name to find my gymnastics meet scores and there is a guy talking about ‘holding you back'...his name is Jim something."

I burst out laughing. My daughter also has my hyphenated name, so she had found the first post that Jim Cronin wrote about me, just before the onset of Project Blogger. He had described me as "Trying to hold back a raging bull in a chute...".

"Great Research Skills on Google...but that's my coach", I said. She was so disappointed. The power of google, I thought...beware of what you say, and do...Google will find it!

Posted by Jackie Colson-Miller,Tampa Real Estate www.RealEstateSizzle.com on 07/02/2007 12:44 PM

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11 Comments on The Power of Google...and An Unusual Name

Yes, Google is powerful. I had a comment on a post I wrote in March, picked up. Weird huh ?

07/02/2007 12:51 PM

by Missy Caulk Ann Arbor Realtor Ann Arbor Real Estate (Keller Williams Ann Arbor)

That is too freakin funny.... I could hear her little voice as I read your article. LOL

Thanks for sharing

07/02/2007 12:58 PM

by Tom Burris | FHA VA & Conv. Texas Mortgage Loans (DallasLoanGuy.com)

Too funny:-) Good try on her super sleuthing though!

07/02/2007 12:59 PM

by Traci Fant (First Realty Company)

Thats kind of a weird story, to think someone you know would hack into your site just to change a post.

07/02/2007 01:04 PM

by Rick Spackman (Rick Spackman REMAX of Wildwoods)

No...the hacker disabled the site meter...I love the story...I had to share....she was SOOOO proud of herself!

07/02/2007 01:09 PM

by Jackie Colson-Miller,Tampa Real Estate www.RealEstateSizzle.com (The Toni Everett Company)

I had an old boyfriend make a really funny comment on my article about encroachments...something about grabbing the woman next to him on an airplane. I am sure that he "made it up" just to be funny, He is President of a Company in town and THAT comment shows up if you google his name....I REALLY laughed when I saw that, but I don't think he did! I wonder how many of his clients have read it??!!

I know that 35 people have "googled" him and ended up on my site...ha ha!

07/02/2007 01:17 PM

by Jackie Colson-Miller,Tampa Real Estate www.RealEstateSizzle.com (The Toni Everett Company)

Google is like the Wizard of Oz....all knowing and all powerful!!!

(I got paniala....????)

07/02/2007 03:17 PM

by Peggy Edwards, ~REALTOR®~Citrus Park & Westchase, FL (Coldwell Banker)

Jackie- what a delightful story! Too funny.

We are all "nutty" now? I got butternut

07/02/2007 03:45 PM

by Dayton Realtor ~Theresa Lussier~ (Exit Realty Central)

Paniala??? Butternut??? I am totally lost....where's Mary...she'll have something funny to say....

07/02/2007 03:51 PM

by Jackie Colson-Miller,Tampa Real Estate www.RealEstateSizzle.com (The Toni Everett Company)

Funny! I'm imagining the historical research that will be done hundreds of years from now... sifting through the internet bytes Google has archived away and trying to assemble them into a meaningful picture of our lives. Scary. If re-writing history to suit your current point of view is today called "revisionist" history, is writing favorable snippets now so Google will display them for future historians "revisionist" or "creationist" history?

07/02/2007 04:50 PM

by Chris Hendricks (Chris Hendricks)

Jackie I'm getting caught up on all the stuff I missed during that ten day road trip of mine to the north (I'm still hearing Willie Nelson's "On The Road Again" in my head, but Jim and the kids have banned me from playing it anymore!)

On the foodstuff... you do come up with some doozies, don't you?? I have no idea what these new words are. Actually that's not entirely true. I recognized a couple of Italian ones here and there. My word for today is "manis" - sounds like Mannah (as in Scriptural) or as in Praying Manis - hmm that's not quite right. Well, they are at least trying harder to keep the place safe.

On the names... from the beginning of the Project Blogger contest I noticed how many of the women have hyphenated names or at least long or complicated ones. Isn't that interesting?

I just wrote more and realized this was getting too long - sorry!!!

07/04/2007 11:41 AM

by Mary Pope-Handy, ABR, CRS, ePRO, SRES (Keller Williams Realty)

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