On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 11:16 AM Sunday 9/30/2007, Julia Thompson wrote:
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
"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?
To the best of my knowledge, the owner called that weekend begging the guy
to come back. I don't know what happened after that, except that the
business closed down less than a year later. (The individual chewn out by
the manager and fired in front of the customers was being groomed to take
over in a necessary capacity when the person in that position left, which
was a couple of months away at the time of the incident.)
Julia
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