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Oct 10 2007 12:00am EDT

Who's Your Googleganger?

I feel a little sorry for my friend, Kevin Maney of Westerville, Ohio. About a decade ago, he saw one of my USA Today columns and emailed me, noting that we share the same name. He was a professor at Miami University in Ohio at the time. Now he's a minister. We've kept in touch on and off since.

And if you Google him, you won't find three-plus screens of results about me before you get to the first one about him, for an old Web site he probably doesn't update anymore. Kevin is my Googleganger.

I actually just heard the word for the first time the other day. What a great cultural artifact of the Internet age. Type in your name and find a bunch of people around the world who share it. And, I guess, hope your Googleganger isn't someone who's been published on the Net for a dozen years.

Earlier this, a play based on the Googleganger theme ran way-off Broadway in New York. It was called "I Google Myself."

So who's your Googleganger?

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