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annoyinglizardvoice

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Mostly mine or people who I've commisioned art from. My dA account is usually first.
My names an old in joke from my mates' jokes about a d+d game, so it's not taken from anywhere that might show up online.
 
Arcanz

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Me, it's all me.. weee, or..wait, some dude on facebook is called Arcanz Lucanz. I don't know if that's even a real name. Anywho, if I google my nick almost everything is related to me. Have used this nick for a long time now, it's just me. But you're not unique if you google your nick with shitloads of numbers at the end and only find yourself, try googling your nick without all those numbers. Unless they are really a part of your nick, unlike sonic91 or snoopdoog1989, you're not unique if you google your nick and only find yourself if that's what you're called.
 
Et3rnalLegend64

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Funny. When I google it, only Escapist pages show up. My Kongregate and XBL don't appear. And yeah, my name is mine.
 
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Well, considering that I stole this name from latin I would imagine the first thing to come up with Wiki (and it is) then other people who had the same idea as me. Two out of the top twenty are me which I find impressive (#10 is me on the escapist and #17 is my myspace, #25 is my kongregate name). It is worth noting that I don't use this name much outside of random video game characters.
 
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tyriso

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when you put down tyriso in bing you can get Methionine Calculated isotopioc distribution on first page but mainly my accounts of different sites
 
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Daedalus1942

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Qwerty0 said:
For those of you who usually use the same username on different sites, what happens when you Google it? Have you reached the point where the majority of results are from you registering it, not some "impostor"?

And for those of you who're buried in obscurity, do you wish you'd been as smart as Randall Munroe and picked something as unique as "xkcd" when you made up your name at age 12?

As for me, I was surprised to find myself occupying 50% of the top 10. But I do wish it was more unique, cause dudes keep beating me to it on registrations.
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Holy shit.. the whole first page is JUST me. I guess I do own my handle... That is just, pure ... Awesome!
 
Satansixsix

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Yeah, my name is pretty unique, nobody else really wants it either. i like because it alliterates and sounds nice on my toung.
i even made a little quote thing.
"Two thrids evil"
and its mostly me when i google it some results for satan six six six but thats it lol
 
Archemetis

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I at least dominate the first page of results when it comes to this Psuedonim.
I haven't bothered to look any further.

The majority of them are escapist links though.

Also!
If you google my real name "Graham Shine", you'll find I actually dominate the first page of result there too. Most of the results on that first page are entirely to do with me
 
dante brevity

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My user name came from a very brief (no pun) foray into Second Life (not for me). I've always used the rather common Dante (affection for the Inferno, not any video game in particular) and SL made me choose a last name from a list. I never played SL again, but I liked the sound of my new name and have been using it ever since.

Anyway, when I google it, most links are to me (The Escapist and its WarCry offspring, mostly) but there is one hit on an Italian literature site, talking about "Dante's brevity". Not bad.
 
OmegaXIII

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My Escapist username returns no hits for me at all :(

Kharadin (my other frequent username) however is all me
 
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