] With more and more personal information flooding the Web
] daily, only the John Smiths of the world remain
] relatively immune.
]
] Searchers are often foiled by common names. If their
] long-lost friend is named John Smith, for example, they'd
] have to wade through 402,000 Google results to find him.
]
] To winnow the results, SearchEngineWatch.com's Sullivan
] suggested including key words like the person's hometown,
] middle name, or a former job in the search.

I'm actually pretty upset, I Googled myself yesterday and around page 45 out of who knows how many pages, I gave up. Damn my common name! And I even tried my current hometown, I found out I'm not the only Jessica ______ in my -town-! There's THREE of us! One has the same MIDDLE INITIAL as me! Blah. I guess that's good, though.. although when I did have a stalker, I sort of secretly enjoyed the attention..