How Googleable Am I?

This question can be taken two different ways: How many results come up when I type in my name, or how easy is it to find a result that actually pertains to me personally when I type in my name. The latter is how I take the question, because I have a very common name. When I type in "Alex Smith" to the Google search bar, I receive millions of results, but finding one that is about me personally is nearly impossible. In this way I am not very Googleable, because I am hard to find on Google. I have no desire to be any more Googleable than I am now, because I like that people cannot obtain information about me without me knowing about it.

Whether or not you view appearing on Google's search results as an advantage is simply a matter of opinion. If you want people to be able to look you up easily, then being easily Googleable is an advantage. In my opinion, however, being Googleable like this involves more risks than advantages, because it takes away from privacy. Being easily Googleable could result in many people who you would not normally want to have certain information about you to be able to obtain that information at the push of a button. Google is an extremely useful online tool that has revolutionized the way we obtain information, but it could potentially result in the release of personal information that we do not want circulating on the Internet.