(ETEC 527) Week 1: Vanity Search

Good Evening,

My name is Ralph E. Emig Jr. and what follows is the result of a “Vanity Search” assignment for my ETEC 527 Web 2.0 Tech for Instruction class conducted on 1/21/2017. 


        For my investigation I will be using search engines from Google, Yahoo, and Bing.  I was going to also try Duck, Duck Go Search but couldn’t stop laughing long enough to type the name in my directory.  Seriously though, I did also use this website and I was impressed.  It looks a lot like Google but they have some cool features like “zero-click” information where all of your search results are displayed on the first and only result page… no clicking.  They also claim to be “the search engine that doesn’t track you” which is great if it’s true, which I have no way of determining, but it still sounds great.  

        Being a very private person, choosing to somehow try and survive without a Twitter or Facebook account, who does not blog, vlog, or Skype, I was a little surprised by the amount of information that was present on the internet about me under web searches.  Although I also searched for pictures, videos, news, etc… I could find nothing.  Well, I shouldn’t say nothing.  I did find hundred of pictures from my vanity search in Google it’s just that none of them were of me, my wife, or anyone else related to me for that matter.  There was plenty of information, just none of it relevant.  Lastly, on a whim, I also tried finding videos of me one YouTube but I’m happy to report that there were none that I could locate.  I did establish however that there are literally hundreds of videos of Jeff Emig and his Supercross Racing days if you’re interested, which I wasn’t, well… okay, so I looked at a few.  That man is crazy, I don’t feel comfortable getting that high off the ground in a building let alone on the back of a motorbike, he earned every penny of his prize money, I’m just shocked that he’s still around to spend it!     

 

For instance:

 

*Did you know that according to I Whitepages.com I am 65+ years of age and currently reside in Westminster, MD???  Me neither.  Surprisingly, there is another person, residing in the U.S. with my exact same name… Spooky!

ü  Okay, let’s try this once more, On Whitepages.com it also shows that I am 45-49 years of age and currently reside in Rowlett, Texas.  This checks out, at least that what my wife tells me, it been a long week.

 

ü  Texasmarrigerecords.org has a record of my wife, Ruth Ashley, and I getting married on May 25, 1991 in Dallas County, Texas.  I remember it was a Saturday; we were wed in a park gazebo in Plano, Texas by 7:00 in the morning and enjoying pancakes at I-Hop by 7:15….  I know, “What a charmer.”  Well we were hungry, didn’t have a lot of money, and not many places were open at that time in the morning.

 

ü  Blogger.com has information on the blog account which I set up for Technology Play-Testing Assignments in my ETEC 524 Intro to Educational Technology class in November of last year.  You should really check it out @  http://technoplayetec524.blogspot.com/ as I’ve had a total of 6 profile views since it’s’ inception…  Don’t be jealous, it’s a daily struggle being this popular.  Seriously though, there really is a lot of valuable, well written information to be gained by visiting this blog, it’s just that not many took the time to do so but, it’s quality not quantity that counts.  Right…  Right?  I really hope I got that right.

 

ü  Orgsync.com @ https://my.orgsync.com/reemig67/involvement will take you to my online ePorfolio which I spent an enormous amount of time creating, again for my ETEC 524 Intro to Educational Technology class form last semester.  I actually hope to get some mileage out of this as I will be interviewing for a Librarian position beginning in March of this year immediately following the conclusion of this class… no pressure!

 

 *  GISDprofessionallearning2015.sched.com, an event planning website, has me listed as attending their event as a 5^th Grade Mathematics Teacher from Couch Elementary.  Unfortunately, I never attended such an event nor did I have the pleasure of teaching at Couch Elementary…  Perhaps it was my doppelganger form Maryland although, somehow I doubt it.

 

ü  Arivify.com has our current property listed in Rowlett along with the acreage, land use, the year our home was built, building class, construction type, foundation, fence type, living area, appraised value, assed value, replacement cost, a legal description, etc… as well as an aerial view of our land… 

(For privacy reasons I will not be listing our mailing address in this blog, although, with a little digging, I’m sure that you can locate this information for yourself but really, why bother???  I’m sure you have better things to do with your time and if not, well, that’s just sad.  Read a book!)

 

*  Sortedbyname.com, a website dedicated to collecting links to genealogy details mentioned on other websites had some very sad and sobering news.  It seems that I died the very same year that my wife and I were wed.  You can imagine my surprise.  I knew I hadn’t been feeling well lately but this is ridiculous!  

 

ü  Ancientfaces.com, is an online community, Free you ask???  Of course not, which purports to be the “World’s Family Album.”  They have accurately listed whom I married and where I currently reside.  They’re not absolutely sure when I was born but that’s okay, neither am I, I was very young at the time and preoccupied with crying, sleeping, eating, and pooping but not necessarily in that order.  I don’t like to brag but sometimes, when the conditions were just right, I could multitask and complete any number of these bodily functions simultaneously.  I’m so proud.

  

Ø  As an aside, Accident-report.com had a listing of an Aircraft Accident/Incident Report from July of 1945 for the US Army Air Forces in which my father, who fought in WWII and was at Hickman Field on December 7, 1941, was a proud member.

(If you have no idea what I am referring to or the significance of this date then for the love of God please, stop blogging and read a book.)

        And that is the totality of information I was able to access from my vanity search.  As I mentioned at the beginning of this little adventure, I’m a very private person without much a digital footprint although, by the end of this class, I feel quite sure that it will have increased.  Thank you for accompanying me on this voyage of discovery and self-indulgence, I hope I made the trip enjoyable for you.  Have a good evening and so long for now.