Don't tell the Google!

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.. said Ish last night, horrified at finding that we could find her degree, place of work and work telephone number from Google, when she thought she had no online presence of any kind..

SO..


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For the first one I ticked 'I might do it if I was really interested in them but very rarely' and 'I'd only do it if I met them online eg on LJ' but they're not a perfect fit for my answer. It's more like 'I might do it if it happened to occur to me and I thought it might throw up interesting results, but that's only happened very rarely' and 'I'd only do it if I had some indication that they were comfortable with having a public web presence that is obviously googlable eg. having a public livejournal with their name attached'. And in both cases having just met someone doesn't make me any more or less likely to google for them - I've googled for a variety of people in the past, one or two I'd known a couple of months, some longer than that and who I was still in contact with, some even longer than that and who I'd lost touch with. I've never googled someone immediately upon meeting them.

I've also never googled anyone I know in a professional capacity, and am not likely to, so I had to tick 'other' in the last question.