Try it yourself: How much do Google – Aftonbladet

Old schools, restaurants you’ve eaten or events you attended.

Google Maps knows more about you than you think.

Try it yourself to search on your name.

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Something amusing and worry is when people are Googling themselves online. What comes up first and what is missing?

In the pursuit of comedic hits, errors and / or unusual name, it has now become popular to look at herself on the Google map service Google Maps.

And several testifies surprising, and sometimes eerie, results.

Scary result

When Alex Hern, a reporter for the British newspaper The Guardian, searched his name, he was a hit at the pub he usually visit every week.

Another journalist, Steffen Rhys in Wales online, got a hit in college, he went on and on in a hotel he recently lived in and written review, as reported to the newspaper The Mirror.

On Twitter, several users reported on the scary results. A user received such meeting at the hospital where she was born.

Geotags?

So what is really behind this?

Most likely you will get hits on the places where you has uploaded a geotagged picture or sites where your name existed with and linked to an article or database.

But you can not always be completely safe.

Once signed searching his name becomes a hit – namely the Swedish women’s magazine Humlegårdsgatan in Stockholm.

Perhaps they tagged my name in an article? I have in any case never been there …

The colleague, who have very unusual names, get a hit on another editorial in Stockholm which he never visited.

Try it yourself and type your name into Google Maps.

The result can be scarier than you think.