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  • From: "David R. Matusiak" <matusiak AT speakeasy.net>
  • To: "internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] What does google know about you?
  • Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:50:47 -0700 (PDT)

before i get slandered by any more people for being an enormous "egoist," the
main practical reason for doing so is to see just how much info is out there
about you. better you find it first before someone else does...

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On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, thomas AT tbeckett.com wrote:

> That's an old one. It is called "ego-surfing."
> TaB
>
>
> > how about self-googling? is there a psychological category for that?
> >
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> > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Gina Norman wrote:
> >
> >> > Do you think that this is true? Do you check your friends on google
> >> before lending them a lawnmower?
> >>
> >> No, but I do Google any man I meet through an online personals ad.
> >>
> >> And honestly, sometimes I Google folks just for fun -- loved Googling
> >> my current boss (who used to be an English professor) and finding his
> >> scholarly articles on medieval literature...
> >>
> >> -gina






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