When I Googled, I laughed, because Google asked me if I meant: “Daniel Can­dela,” instead of “Daniel Can­del­la,” as if, I did­n’t know my own name, or I did­n’t exist.  If you get past the point that Google does­n’t…

I thought my name was unique. Turns out, there are a lot of oth­er Zarrin Ahmed’s out there in the world, and many of them aren’t in the U.S. Good news is, the sites that these impos­tors have are less…

Col­lege stu­dents are con­stant­ly told to mon­i­tor their online rep­u­ta­tion. It’s a strug­gle our par­en­t’s gen­er­a­tion did­n’t have to face. Twit­ter, Face­book, LinkedIn, Tum­blr and even seem­ing­ly old-school social media plat­forms like MySpace did­n’t exist and the strings that come…

My online rep­u­ta­tion, as I expect­ed, isn’t over­ly strong. When I typed my name into Google, the results weren’t heart­en­ing. The top results were relat­ed to Jack Mitchell, the pho­tog­ra­ph­er, who was appar­ent­ly a pret­ty big deal. For this reason,…

I was very pleased with the results I found when I typed in, “Eddie Leonard UConn” into Google on Tues­day. The first result that popped up on to the screen was a link to my Twit­ter pro­file. I am comfortable…

In Chi­na, because Google is banned to use, peo­ple always use the Baidu as a search engine. When I search “缪冬妮“ which is my Chi­nese name, because there is only a few peo­ple named “缪冬妮” in Chi­na, I found almost…

Maybe it’s not impor­tant and does­n’t mat­ter, but I want­ed to note upfront that I found Googling my own name an com­fort­ably nar­cis­sis­tic (although prob­a­bly nec­es­sary) exer­cise. My Online Rep­u­ta­tion What I found upon search­ing “Matt Zabierek” was, not surprisingly,…