I’m trying to coin a new phrase, no more googling, the new thing is called yahoo-ing…
I decided to Yahoo my father, since it turns out he is actually on Wikipedia. Who knew my father was so active in the community, doing speaking engagements, etc.
For some reason I decided to Yahoo my maiden name and I came across this link. If you look at the bottom you will see a note about our wedding. I had no idea anything was ever printed into a newspaper, since I think I still have all the paperwork sitting around this condo somewhere (I’m a pack rat, I’m trying to get help).
I know I had previously Googled (in the pre yahoo days) Debra Ellsworth, but I don’t recall seeing that there were a couple other women named Debra Ellsworth. It’s very trippy to think there are other women with my exact same name.
I love that there are links to the real me as ad production contacts for both Dow Jones Online as well as SmartMoney, I wonder how long the SmartMoney link will stay up!
Tuesday | March 6, 2007 at 12:59 pm
OK, I have tried the yahoo-ing… not too bad.
I also linked to both of the articles about the “other” Debra Ellsworths - seems the name is synonymous with being a wonderful person… 
On a side note, I did yahoo my name and got too many results and … I just don’t want to know. I already know there are a lot of people out there with my same name - I hope they are shredding all their junk mail like I am to keep someone from stealing our identity! heehee
Tuesday | March 6, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Deb
Don’t know howlong “SmartMoney” and others will stay up but:
Things that are taken off of the Internet don’t always disappear completely: Look in the “Internet Archive” ( http://www.archive.org/index.php )and use their “WayBackMachine” (an archive of 85 billion pages).
For instance, you can look back to one of the Web pages that Aunt Jill and I had around 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19960101000000-20010101235959/http://www.oak-ridge.com/orr.html
Also, there are some programs that allow you to “harvest” a Web site and its links seveal layers down to keep on your computer.
Uncle Matt
Tuesday | March 6, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Deb
Things that are taken off of the Internet don’t always disappear completely: Look in the “Internet Archive” ( http://www.archive.org/index.php ) and use their “WayBackMachine” (an archive of 85 billion pages).
For instance you can look back to one of the Web pages that Aunt Jill and I had around 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19960101000000-20010101235959/http://www.oak-ridge.com/orr.html
There are also programs that allow you to “harvest” Web sites (including all links several layers down) to your own computer.