Have you Googled yourself lately?
When I’m about to meet someone for a client meeting, interview or other business meeting, I usually do a little homework by checking their LinkedIn profile or Googling them. I just look for commonality in people we know, companies or industries we may have worked for, etc. It often makes for a richer conversation…
But Scott Karp goes into some interesting stories of people obsessed with controlling the results of Google searches on their name.
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I’ve got a good amount of competition on “Charlie Nichols” at Google, but I take three of the top 10 results on the first page of results. This blog’s main page, my LinkedIn Profile and some Boxes and Arrows comments I’ve made.
I also am on a smattering of other results pages, but there are links to other Charlie’s… including an article announcing my death, (won’t my wife be surprised?!), a movie/TV director’s profiles, a musician and a Star Trek character.
I just hope that people who Google me realize I’m still alive, blogging and can probably help with their online customer experience… but not their warp core. I’ve given that up. 8-)
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