Some interesting things pop up when I Google my name.

I don’t want to get your hopes up, so I’ll just say right now none of them are scandalous.  The top results are things I would expect and welcome, like my website and social media accounts.  That’s a nice improvement from what used to be page after page of college newspaper articles.

I did come across one of those articles today, but in an unexpected way.  Some sort of aggregation site had the text of the issue we put out for the freshman moving in during my junior year.  I was starting my first full semester as sports editor, and penned a piece urging the newbies to get involved in sports on campus in some way.

What I discovered in this search is that two years after I graduated, the new staff reprinted that article.  I had no idea before today.  You can read it here.

Some of my articles from my current day (or rather, night) job show up too, though usually in odd places that have grabbed it from my employer’s site.  Whatevs.

What’s really interesting are the things that have nothing to do with me.  There is a massive epidemic of people who say things on the internet about items that belong to people named Hanna, but do so without using apostrophes.  I’ve never heard this band play, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and say they’re okay.

Then there are the near-matches to my name, which Google helpfully sets up in the “Related Searches” section at the bottom.  The best one is, “chris hannah worst canadian.”  Apparently there’s a Canadian rock star with that name who someone really doesn’t like.  Maybe I should rethink my stance from the previous paragraph.

But the absolute best thing I found in today’s search is this blog post.

It’s by a guy named Chris Hanna, who laments the fact that there are so many people with his name, it’s hard to get good, simple user names on popular sites.  Even worse, he writes, many of the people who get the simple names aren’t very active on those sites, thus wasting what he says he could be using more productively.

He appears to be Canadian and intern at a newspaper.  Maybe we should be friends.