From Wired News:
'UnGoogleables' Hide From SearchI predict that "Geri Agalia" will soon be well represented in Google search results. And she won't be able to blame the genealogists.
By Ann Harrison
02:00 AM Oct. 03, 2005 PT
Geri Agalia doesn't appear to leave less of a data trail than most Americans. She has a phone in her name, a bank account, utility bills, a mortgage and a credit card. But the stay-at-home mom and part-time student is among a select and ever-shrinking group of the digitally privileged -- her name does not appear on Google.
"I just value my privacy," says Agalia, who lives in San Diego. "And I think that the government and corporations already know too much about people for the benefit of marketing."
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Agalia discovered that even her own family could be a Google information leak. A distant relative posted Agalia's name on a genealogy website, along with the names of her husband and son. When Agalia's husband was deployed in the first Navy battle group to send Tomahawk missiles into Iraq, she said he was told by his commanders to keep a low profile in case he or his family were targeted by terrorists. Agalia's relative agreed to take their names off the site and she accomplished the rare feat of having her name vanish from Google listings.
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Update (Oct. 5, 2005): Geri Agalia is now Googleable.
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