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i don't see how having a real name is interesting to google. a handle is a much better unique identifier, which is what you actually want when you are attempting to collect data from a bunch of sources. i could tell google that my name is james smith, and they'd be happy but it would be absolutely useless (and false). i could tell google that my name is notatoad, and that would probably be enough to aggregate all the information there is about me online.



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