Your name is stored on the internet whenever it is mentioned.
When seen together as in the above screenshot, your name can show a great deal of information — data — about who you are, what you like, and how others perceive you.
Don’t be scared. The future is already here.
This video explains how it works:
Curious to know how to discover your own persona?
Hat tip to Peter Kim for the find.
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It’s um interesting – but the you in ‘who you are’ is plural ;~)
I have an author, a singer ,a Swiss physiotherapist … and a blogger mentioned on Ari Herzog.
The internet doesn’t change plurality, for you will always be different people. Question is do other people know who you are?
Never heard about this site so thanks for suggesting this site. Tried out my name, and it provided information which was not totally accurate but still decent enough. Really its a great find, and I’m surely going to suggest my facebook friends to visit this site.
You had me nervous at first, but just tried with my name and it was less than accurate. I think it still has a way to go.
May 31, 2011 at 1:09 AM
This is one of the more interesting things I’ve seen online recently; I was excited to try it out for my own name, but the site keeps giving me a “Network Error” message! I’m also curious to see how this works if you were to try putting in non-human titles (like a two-word Company name, for instance, replacing a first and last name). Hopefully they will fix their site soon.
Fred
Nowadays, as the technology rises, when we try to Google our names, search results shows that you are indeed searchable…but that’s if you are active in using the net. As I’ve updated my page on Facebook from time to time, and keeps myself busy on social networking sites, one time I Google myself and sees results even of images coming from networking sites… even faces of my friends on social medias were appearing.
Amazing! How can you do that? Is their a specific site for this? I want to try it as well with my own name.
June 2, 2011 at 6:06 AM
Sports, family and illegal are my main ones… :-/
Not sure that’s me
I guess it works better for you, as your name isn’t very common!
Cool tool though Ari
June 2, 2011 at 2:41 PM
The four main (and only, actually) things that came back when I entered my name were Military, Sports, Media, and Religion. Not exactly things I would think about when I think about ‘who I am.’
Wait…and now I just did it a second time and got completely different results? What’s going on here?
June 3, 2011 at 5:06 AM
So it changes every time..?
Maybe it doesn’t really word at all :-/
June 7, 2011 at 1:18 PM
I’m honestly not sure, Christopher. For me at least, it changed several times.
Any thoughts, Ari?
Of course it will change. Take another look at the background behind it. It’s an art installation, essentially.