What's Your SL Name-To-RL Name Google Search Ratio?

So here's a fun if disconcerting exercise:  Google your Second Life avatar's name, and be sure to put it in quotes.  Note the number of Results you get.  Now do the same with your real life name (also in quotes) and tally those Results, as well.  Which number is larger?  Marvelous Second Life blogger Kit Meredith did that recently, and though she's an IP lawyer in real life, discovered that far as Google is concerned, her avatar is more popular than her.  ("The really interesting results," says Kit, "are the ones where you find your name being dropped in discussions that you’re not a part of.") This is part of a larger trend, as Kit notes, with avatar identities infecting music social networks, Flickr, Twitter, and other Web 2.0 sites.  (Forseti Svarog points us to an analyst's unifying term for the phenomenon:  "Generation V".)  But somehow the effect seems most jarring, at least to me, when it shows up in the ultimate search engine.  Google being the world mind and all.   

As for me, Google's ratio of "Wagner James Au" to "Hamlet Au" results is roughly four to one.  But then, most search hits on my real name are related in some way to my SL identity, so I'd call that a wash.

How about you?  Take the Google challenge and post your ratio in Comments.

Update, 5/10:  Bumped.  Of the 19 readers who've posted the results of this experiment in Comments so far, 11 have Second Life avatar names which Google more than their real life names.

Update, 5/12:  Of 34 Residents now reporting, 20 say their avatars Google more often than them.

Comments

[Laetizia Coronet]

That's 3940 for the real me and 3350 for the avatar. But the first hits on my real name are from someone with the same name - I do not run a media consultancy. So let's call it a draw.

[Ravishal Bentham]

A total of 784 hits for my avie. My RL name produced 55 hits of which only 3 of them are me. Seems there is an IT professional and a Rugby player with my name too.

[CyFishy Traveler]

CyFishy Traveler -- 1770

Real Name -- 1590, but nothing about me shows up until, I think, page six of the results.

I recently Googled the words "cyfishy" and "newbie" (not in quotes together) and found that my little Newbie Page was on what appeared to be a syllabus for a college course that was using Second Life as a venue! *boggle* I'm on a syllabus . . . dang.

[Phar Hand]

1220 hits for my avatar, 820 for my RL name ... and almost none of the RL hits are related to me. hell must i be famous in SL *LOL*

[Daman Tenk]

2870 for my avatar

3480 for my real name (though I share my name with a world class inline skater and a Belgian journalist. Only few hits refer to me)

2530 for my regular internet nickname

[Otenth Paderborn]

SL: 3,360 (many duplicates, I noticed glancing through a few pages)

RL: 1,040, not all me, of course. While I'm the first result, the first page also includes a fugitive the state of Connecticut is looking for.

[Kit Meredith]

Hi Hamlet, glad you found the post interesting, thanks for linking. Hopefully others will enjoy it too.

Oh - I know! Let's tack a "now tag five of your friends to Google themselves" requirement onto the end of it, and we'll call it a "meme"! The Google Ratio Meme! ;)

[Vidal Tripsa]

My digital puppetty self scores 2060 with, thankfully, a whole first page of just me on Google UK's listing. My fleshy puppetty self, however, scores 16000, though only gets specific mention from result #19.

I thought both names were pretty uncommon and difficult to find, but... just goes to show: there are too few Tripsas in this world!

[Tateru Nino]

42:1 for me, plus change.

[Princess Ivory]

Only 2 hits on my RL name that were actually me. (and two that weren't). That is all that came up.

My SL name generated too many pages to count. I stopped after 25 hits, 12 pages into the results. They were mostly related to my posts on other people's blogs. And I had no idea how frequently "Princess Ivory" was used for wedding dresses and china patterns!

Princess Ivory

[Keystone Bouchard]

7,300 for SL: Keystone Bouchard
4,380 for RL: Jon Brouchoud

I started to notice this shift when I posted baby videos on YouTube and pics on Flickr. 10 to 1 the congrats came to Keystone, not Jon.

My real-life family keeps asking, "wtf is Keystone Bouchard?"

[Rusalka Writer]

RL: 525 (weird name, nearly all me)
SL: 225

Phew.

[Maleficent Munster]

5,490 for real me and 7 for SL me. LMAO! Of course, I've only been in SL since December and my blog has only been up for a couple weeks.

[Cyn Vandeverre]

Real me: 7,890
Avatar: 2,220

[Dedric Mauriac]

RL: Lewis Moten - 8,570
SL: Dedric Mauraic - 49,800

It seems to be close to a six to one ratio.

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[Miriel Enfield]

RL: 27 (only about three of them are actually me, and the rest don't seem to be actual names)

SL: 2,970

[Erbo Evans]

RL: 26,900...but there seems to be a realtor in Pennsylvania with the same name as me, and maybe a couple other people as well.

SL: 2,800, and a lot more "representative" items offered by Google in the initial search results (128 vs. 56). Of course, now I use the "Erbo Evans" name in EVE Online, too...and searching for "Erbo" would probably turn up more stuff from me than searching for my real name, because I've used "Erbo" as a handle online for nearly two decades.

[Forsythe Whitfield]

I have two RL numbers, the first is 1510 for my given name. the 2nd is 2310 for my stage name (I'm a musician in RL). Interestingly enough my avatar name comes up 2650 so it beats them both.

[Marianne McCann]

SL me: 11,100 hits. All but the top hit on the main page returns information relating to my avatar.

RL me: 3,150 for full name (all the main page links are me), 20,600 for first and last name only. More than half the main page is me.

[Moriash Moreau]

RL - 6740 Hits.
SL - 1340 Hits.

Strangely enough, all those SL hits are about me. In RL, I share my name with a college basketball player, a singer, an actor, an online security consultant, and a dozen others. Not so much of the fame in RL. I am gratified that Google still first-ranks me (or at least my web representations) in both personas, though. Go me!

[Patchouli Woollahra]

RL - 17 hits
SL - 2430 hits

To put it further in perspective, the oldest reference to my RL self dates back to 1995 when I was still a game-crazed little kid hanging out in a shop that was all about pirated games on 286 and 386s.

13 years. 17 hits. As an added bonus, 5 of those searches are for people whose only semblance to me is their equal obscurity in cyberspace.

In contrast, a lot of Googles for my name stem from the common habit of posting discussion transcripts. I do blog a little, and my profile is web-searchable. But it's mostly talk and doing with other people.

[Ann Otoole]

Results 1 - 10 of about 23,600 for "Ann Otoole"
Results 1 - 10 of about 25,300 for

Took me years to get my early internet years of posts cleaned off the net. You see... Potential employers google applicants. So a wise person never posts anything "unprofessional" on the internet anywhere anytime.

And yes I would never list my SL info or activities on a resume or ever mention them outside of an SL friendly environment. An association with SL is pretty much a death knell on a resume these days. Yes I tested it out of curiosity. You are auto branded as undesirable in many sectors if you have any connection to SL.

[HALEY Salomon]

1700. For second life me ,, mostly me,,, 2210 ,, for real life me ,, totally me, la de da , I still have,, A real-life!

[Hotspur O'Toole]

13 pages of hits for Hotspur O'Toole, 24 for my real name-- not all of which are mine, though most are. It's a reasonably unique combination.

[Oxytone]

For me, 9,720 for my real name and just one lonely hit for my avatar name (Gahum Riptide), but that's because it shows up on a SL related blog.

I gest 15,600 for Gahum though. Of course, I took it from Visayan languages (Tagalogs have it too). It means power, might, potency, govern and rule, though I picked it because it's so macho sounding and I'm hardly macho. Sort of a geeky linguistic nerd joke :D.