What Do Heidi Klum and Tope Oluwole Have in Common?

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According to Google, a lot. So, every once in a while, plus 'cause I'm a geek and I like search engine updates, I check out me on search engines. Don't look at me like that. People who haven't even met you are Google-ing you right now, and you're not even famous. That hiring manager, your boss, your date, your _____. The point isn't to be squeaky clean, but rather (as I tell folks) realize that once anything about you or your namesake is on the internet (regardless of how it got there), it can be data mined. So do your best to make sure you put out as much good vibes as you can. Tangent.

So instead of the typical Google web search, I went further and clicked on the images link. The first image was, big surprise, yours truly. The next several: my book covers, friends on Google+, Meetup.com acquaintances, Google-related stuff of mine, Linked In connection folks, my app, public postings, Nigeria-related stuff... Then it got interesting; a graph of Oluwoles and their location world-wide. Five are in Poland, and they are probably related to me.

Then it got weird: a couple of images of Heidi Klum. I attributed it to what I like to call Metadata Voodoo^TM (I define this as what happens at the long tail end of any search: leftovers). But then there were more images of Klum, and more. Now I was a bit embarrassed, which quickly shifted to concern. There were more than a dozen images, easily. This wasn't Metadata Voodoo. This was coming up this often because there were a considerable about metadata.

One of the first things I learned about debugging code is that when you get an error at a particular line of code, it's typical the result of something immediately before the error was raised. Most adults do this naturally already. If you see a new dent in your door at the shopping mall, the first place you typically investigate is the car next to you.

I also noticed amongst the Klum images, some of the movie that always comes up when I search me; The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. This movie stars my (much more attractive) namesake, and (drum roll please) Heidi Klum.

Google you, and let me know what interesting things about you pop-up.