Google Profile lets you affect what comes up when you're Googled
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Official Google Blog: Search for "me" on Google To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, we've begun to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. These results offer abbreviated information from user-created Google profiles and a link to the full profiles. We've also added links so it's easy to search for the same name on MySpace, Facebook, Classmates and LinkedIn. I did that -- the basic info, anyway -- but I don't see anything different yet. I'm still crippled by a hole where my home computer should be, so I can't easily complete this and report what happens till I get my hardware back from the Mike who's fixing it. Name results are wildly arbitrary, so we're helping Google refine its data. And separating us from our doppelgangers. Another Sheila Lennon's 1998 New York Times wedding announcement shows up just behind me in the search results but, for the record, that's not me. There are others, and our lives bleed together now in Google. It's upsetting to be unplugged from my home jack. Max, the cat who fights me for my computer chair, thinks he won, that I've surrendered the territory to him. I don't think he suspects I have plans to take it back.
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