Surname search

[mollyandbill]

How do you google someone - I've been reading that you can find out about someone by merely typing their surname??

[jno]

there may be lots of people under any one name; but try www.googlism.com or just www.google.com

[coyn]

You cant do that Molly, just type in your own name and you will see it doesn't work.

[CheekyChops]

What if their surname was 'Smith'? Try typing that into Google and see what results you get - I bet none are related to the person you are trying to look up. Try 'Robbie Williams' or 'Brad Pitt' on the other hand....

[woofgang]

It does work, but you get a list of all the people with your name so you have to type in as full a name as possible and then sort out which one you want to know about. My real name is not a common one but there are quite a few mentions of the name on the web and not all of them are me!

[Chessman]

As woogang says, it does work, we have some relations in Australia that we didn't knoe existed, my nephew did a search using this method, and we now have an extended family, but we do have a surname thats not too common.

[CT]

I found me. Only a couple of times. If you use the advanced search, you can specify certain details.

[Octavius]

Apart from one famous author and a former US senatorial communications director, my surname is quite uncommon. However, I did enter my full name and found that I share it with a priest who lived in Dhaka in the 1930's.

[ianess]

I found me......at least it was my name and everything in the newspaper article could have been me but it most definitely was not the real me!
Very strange.