] 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.. Who's Googling you right now? |