At 11:16 AM Sunday 9/30/2007, Julia Thompson wrote:
>On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: > >>--===============0020866293== >> >>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 >>"Googlegänger," a virtual doppelgänger 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. And did the employee sue, or better yet, did the employer find out his error and admit the mistake and restore the person's employment status and expunge all negative information from his record? -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
