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…
Category: Reputation
Your digital footprint can say a lot about who you are in the age of little to no privacy. As for my search results, I was fairly pleased and also a little surprised. Some of the first results that came…
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…
Digital Footprint Google is an interesting piece of technology. It’s so useful — when using it to research a name non-affiliated with yours. Google is a tough subject for many people because of the fact it is often permanent. For instance,…
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,…
My Dismal Footprint… When I input Samuel MacKay into Google, there is little to distinguish me from the apparently numerous other Samuel MacKays that exist on the World Wide Web. I share my name with an actor who has…
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