Many Americans Googling Themselves =O

Who: 1,623 Internet users in the U.S.
What: 47 percent of American adults have admitted googling themselves, through either Google or other search engines. 53 percent of Americans have said that they have googled other people, excluding celebrities. Some of these people said that they aren't worried about the information posted about them on the web, while others were not comfortable with some of the stories written about them. About 4 percent of the users surveyed even stated that inaccurate or embarrassing information written about them have caused bad experiences in the real world. Women were shown to be more likely to search the person they were dating, but men and women are pretty much just as likely to search for themselves or another using a search engine. Few users say they Google themselves regularly, while most said that they only tried once or twice.
When: The survey was conducted last year between November 30th and December 30th.
Where: The information was collected by telephoning people living in the United States.
Why: My guess is that people were surveyed to find out how much the percentage has changed since 2002, when the percentage of self-Googling Americans was only 22 percent.
My Opinion: When I saw this article on the website below, I was thinking, "How much more random can you get?" I would never think to survey people and ask them if they Google themselves or not. I never thought of doing something like that; now that I've read this article, I actually might try Googling my last name! I've heard from others that some people out there in the world have the same last name as you, but I never actually tried finding out. Now I want to! This was an interesting article to read.

I found the article here.