If you are on academia.edu, how often do you get messages from it that somebody has searched for you? I made the mistake of starting an academia.edu profile a while ago, and now I get these notifications every day. I haven’t been updating that profile or visiting it at all, yet I keep getting informed of these searches.
The idea that people Google me (not me, the blogger, as you understand, but the RL me) every day is extremely unnerving. I don’t have an important name in my field just yet (and at the rate this stupid manuscript goes I never will), so it isn’t fellow academics. Neither would my students engage in such searches. At least, not on a daily basis.
This is why I’m wondering if this is normal. Please share how often academia.edu informs you that you have been Googled. I’m getting really paranoid here.
Clarissa's Blog 
Well it’s certainly not every day but I get notifications that people have looked at my profile with a fair amount of regularity. I don’t know if this applies to you but it seems like many times the search terms that led them to me are fairly innocuous (like they found my profile because they were looking up an author I write about and that author’s name appears on my page.) So it might be something like that? If you list someone like Cervantes on your page, people might just be finding you because thousands of people probably google Cervantes every day.
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” If you list someone like Cervantes on your page, people might just be finding you because thousands of people probably google Cervantes every day.”
– Oh really? Oh what a relief! I had no idea that this might not be about me. Now my paranoid feelings have been pacified. Thank you, dear Evelina!
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This is why I left academic.edu . It freaked me out.
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I googled you after you posted a link to your paper, to see if you other academic work out there accesible to those without college databases!
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I’m not at all worried about the blog readers doing any searches. It’s just that I have many ex-boyfriends. . . I’m sure you understand. 😉
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Agree with Evelina. I actually wouldn’t be surprised if someone, somewhere searched for me daily for whatever reason — but I think Academia.edu is silly to make such a big deal about this idea. Also, you probably could have your own program to tell you people were searching for you and why, better than whatever Academia.edu is using.
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From David B again.
I had never heard of academia.edu.
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Good for you, I think. I’ve had nothing from that place but aggravation.
Are you enjoying Mexico?
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Very much!! I love almost every place I have ever been to in Mexico.
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I haven’t been in a while because everybody says it’s too dangerous nowadays.
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