We're everywhere

Yeah, I am number one. If you Google my name, I am the top choice. pretty heady stuff, and something that would be almost impossible were my name John Smith. I feel sorry for any currently-living Mr. Smith, who will always be ranked below the famous pioneer on Google.

I shouldn't get too cocky, though. While I am the top Mike Silverman on the web, Sarah Silverman can claim to be the top Silverman on the net (not counting my 43rd cousin, twice removed who apparently sells military surplus in the UK.)

So who are the other Mike Silvermans?

There's a jazz trumpeter, an engineer, an actor, a sportswriter, the professor, and the fitness buff.

There's also a Mike Silverman who works for Halliburton (is there an oil well in Iraq with my name on it?) and another Mike Silverman who is a transgender rights activist.

Musicianship must run in the genetic code of all Mike Silvermans (except me, of course), because in addition to the jazz guy above, there's a another Mike who is a "full-on lyrical, rhythmic, harmonic, and sonic spectacle that must be seen to be believed" and Mike Silverman, the dummer. You know, it would be quite possible to make an all-Mike Silverman band! Hello Cleveland, are you ready to rock?

There's also a lawyer Mike Silverman...perhaps I should contact him about all these imposters using my name!

And let nobody say that the name "Mike Silverman" doesn't have leadership qualities, because Mike Silverman, the PTI Consulting CEO will smack you way the hell down...that is, if Mike Silverman the packaging company president doesn't get to you first.