On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Robert Seeberger wrote:
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=googlegangers
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21050562/site/newsweek/
Eve Fairbanks knew something was up four years ago when her mother
drove six hours-from her home in northern Virginia to New Haven,
Conn., where Eve was a sophomore at Yale-just to have lunch with her.
After a meal of risotto came the moment of truth: "I know about the
porn," Mom told her. It was an honest mistake: Eve's name popped up on
a handful of X-rated sites when her mother had Googled her out of
maternal curiosity. But that Eve Fairbanks wasn't her Eve-it was a
"Googleg?nger," a virtual doppelg?nger with the same name. "Obviously
[mom] wanted to hear my side of the story," says Eve. "but she put a
lot of trust in Google as a
source.".....................................
I heard of bad things like that even before Google -- someone's boss got
this new web-based background-check tool, entered the employee's name,
found someone with the same name with a record, and chewed him out and
fired him in front of the customers.
Some people need more clue before they should be let near that sort of
thing, and there are no clue-checkers acting as gateways. So that problem
will always happen as long as any 2 people can have the same name.
The other thing is that a good number of porn stars are going to be
working under aliases. (Duh.) If you give your kid a name that might be
a good porn star name, then yeah, that'll happen. Sheesh.
Julia
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