Over the past year or so I’ve been battling with the other Tien Nguyens of the world to get this very blog to be the #1 search result when my name has been inputted–I’ve gotten as high as #4, but generally range around #8-10..Here’s a peak into some of the imposters in the top 10..

1) http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~tien/

The first Google result is a guy who’s an assistant professor at Iowa State in the Electrical/Computer Engineering department. His hair is parted neatly to the side, he’s got a small body, big head, and wears glasses:

Way to break all the stereotypes buddy.

2) http://www.tiennguyen.com/about/

Next guy is “the Chief Technology Officer at Galaxy Group, a media company in Vietnam. In the past, I worked at Microsoft, where I was involved with MSN Entertainment, Zune, and XBox Live.”

Also has a masters in computer science, and also looks like a total douchebag who’s probably still a virgin–but can probably kick my ass in ping pong…j/k no one beats me in ping pong.

3) http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=309540457

Good news is this guy isn’t a computer nerd, but he’s a total emo guy who probably cuts himself every night. He describes himself as someone who “seals feelings with silence,tastes paint with passions,touches poems with carelessness”. His Myspace is filled with art created while he was on heroin.

What da fuck?

my mood: annoyed

4) http://www.linkedin.com/in/tienn

#4 is a linkedin profile of the same guy in the #2 spot, way to monopolize the name ass.

5) http://www.nguyentientam.com/homepage.html

I have respect for #5–he has some nice images of Vietnam up, so that’s some positive points.

However his site was designed back in 1973, and he’s not even really a Tien Nguyen–he’s a Tam Tien Nguyen.

I’d hate on his look but this’ll probably be me in 25 years so…

6) http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~tnn27/

Good news: this guy is not a tech nerd, instead he’s a biz major and actually has marketing experience.

Bad news: he looks like this:

7 ) http://pikindaguy.com/

This dude is pretty f’in awesome if I must say so myself.

8) http://www.thenextorg.com/

’nuff said.

9) http://www.modelmayhem.com/219080

From the site:

Greetings and welcome. Thank you for checking out my portfolio and taking an interest in my work. I have been modeling now for the past three years and I really enjoy it. I would like to eventually pursue it at a more active level. I would like to be able to explore every angle of what makes up photography.

Um…does not compute, but shoot I’d say I’m pretty f’in hot if I say so myself.