Google Me, Jim Killeen Searches For Himself

by Scott Beale on May 2, 2008 · 8 comments

“Google Me” is an interesting documentary by Jim Killeen who Googled himself and then traveled the world meeting seven other men who share his same name.

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1 AJ May 2, 2008 at 2:47 pm

Seems very Similar to ‘Are you Dave Gorman’ (http://www.davegorman.com/projects_are_you_dave_gorman.html) from back in 2000

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2 Felix May 2, 2008 at 4:14 pm

Yeah, and major rip off of the Grace Lee Project!

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3 Patrick May 2, 2008 at 11:11 pm

Yes, I agree with the other two comments above. Couldn’t get through two minutes of this having previously known about the other projects. A soon as I saw him with that giant yellow thumb tack…yikes.

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4 Jim Cobb May 3, 2008 at 7:15 pm

All I can say is OUTSTANDING!!!!! Jim Cobb, http://www.askjimcobb.com

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5 Tim Wilson May 4, 2008 at 6:48 am

This guy has blatantly ripped off Dave Gorman!!! I hope he gets hit with a lawsuit for ripping off someone else’s orginal ideas! What unbelievable and unabashed plagiarism!!!

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6 Atlantic Wave Radio Podcast May 4, 2008 at 1:36 pm

Yep, definately a rip off from Dave Gorman. Not even an effort to disguise this stolen idea.

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7 Courtney May 5, 2008 at 11:08 pm

As far as I know there are only two other people with my name and they are both teenage girls.

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8 Heather Mills February 13, 2009 at 3:03 am

My god this is the most blatant example of plagiarism I have witnessed in such a long time. Not only is it EXACTLY the same as “are you Dave Gorman?”, Gorman even has a series (with a similar theme) called “Googlewhack”! I mean who is is this guy kidding? He’s even won awards for completely ripping off someboday else’s idea….

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