Tom Holland apologizes to name-twin Tom Holland for making his name impossible to google

https://ew.com/actor-tom-holland-meets-historian-tom-holland-discuss-the-oydssey-12016759

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Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 41d (7 replies)

I'd prefer my name to be unsearchable. I'd be thanking the famous Tom Holland.

Ilandar@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 41d (1 reply)

This guy is actually a public figure himself, though. It's rather funny because his podcast is huge and he is pretty famous in his own right, but even if he used his full given name, Thomas, he'd have the exact same problem lol

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 41d

Just rename to Thomas Netherlands

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 41d (1 reply)

You could change your name to Tom Holland and hide in his (or their, counting the historian) shadow(s).

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 41d

My name already turns up nothing. I'm good.

TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 41d (1 reply)

so you just gonna leave "Alexfartsire" on the table then ?

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 41d

You're welcome to take it.

Stern@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d

I'm under two layers of well known but not famous people owing to a common for the origin country last name and less common first name. (Think something like Jimmy Smith.). It is rather nice to be that rough to google or FB lookup.

KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 15 pts · 41d

"You could just go by Thomas..."

"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."

psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 41d

Did John Oliver meet John Oliver yet?

agentTeiko@piefed.social · 2 pts · 41d (1 reply)

More people need to learn Boolean Operations lol

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 41d

Does Google even allow for boolean searches anymore?

TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 41d

Yet not one tear shed for the Dutch.