And for me, with all of: my own name, “David Gerard”, “Eliezer Yudkowsky”, “Eugine Nier” and “Eliezer Arbuthnot” (a fake name I just made up, for which Google finds no results with the quotation marks, offers me results without them, and again gives the “data protection” warning).
So I think this is a bit like searching for “rat vomit” and getting “Buy Cheap Rat Vomit now” ads from eBay: it’s just an algorithmic thing that gets inserted into certain categories of search.
It says that for most (it is supposed to be all) name searches, when you are googling from Europe, except when the name is too ubiquitous
Doesn’t show up for “David Gerard” or “Eliezer Yudkowsky”.
It does for me if I include the quotes.
And for me, with all of: my own name, “David Gerard”, “Eliezer Yudkowsky”, “Eugine Nier” and “Eliezer Arbuthnot” (a fake name I just made up, for which Google finds no results with the quotation marks, offers me results without them, and again gives the “data protection” warning).
So I think this is a bit like searching for “rat vomit” and getting “Buy Cheap Rat Vomit now” ads from eBay: it’s just an algorithmic thing that gets inserted into certain categories of search.
It shows up for me even with “Mencius Moldbug”, whether with or without the quotes.