Same name as celebrities or their relations

booklover500

I have recently started googling my name to check for wins after someone mentioned it on here.

I have discovered my name (first and surname) is the same as the daughter of a celebrity which means it takes ages to find me even when 'winner' or prize' are included in the search as her mother has won awards.

Has anyone else got a similar problem?

I have found a few mentions that are actually me - some wins I knew about and one I didn't!

libra10

A way to filter the famous name from searches, is to google your name, eg


David Beckham -David


This should filter out the celebs.

createbeauty

I find that my name is quite common with quite a lot of people! Have considered comping by my maiden name but if ID is required for a win I could shoot myself in the foot doing that.

moreofthegoodstuff

When I was listed as a winner it had my county next to it, so another option is to google your name + winner + your county , and also try your town/city as some may include this.

Purple_Skull

Yes! My name is the same as an athlete who wins tons of events so it makes it awkward for me to search

KATHYBEAR

My problem doing this is that i have same name as someone who cheated on well know tv programme but also some one who was killed as a result of domestic violence. so my results on google search are quite sad!!

Stevie_Palimo

These third world issues are terrible to have to deal with, I really feel you guys it must be terrible to have to do any work into looking up a competition result.

KATHYBEAR

im so glad you have time to read all our issues in the competition chat forum

hamsterfan1

I've the same name as a popular (over there) Canadian author

I-Owe-You

Stevie_Palimo wrote: »

These third world issues are terrible to have to deal with, I really feel you guys it must be terrible to have to do any work into looking up a competition result.

If you're going to be a snarky git at least get it right... it's "first world"....

:shhh:

booklover500

Thank you for the suggestions I will try them.

I'm sorry Kathybear that your results are so sad.