Looking at this issue from a different angle, the Internet is also a marketing tool. Some people are easily searched so their business may be located. Businesses are not nameless faceless entities.Just to show you how privacy is eroding with the open nature of the Internet I would like you to do the following. Go here and type in your first name, your job, your city and the word scuba. I tried this for a few people I know on the board and almost invariably they were found in the top 5 returns.
If you have multiple words in your job or town name then place them in quotes. "Director of IT" or "San Francisco" for example.
Google Yourself...
Started by
shadragon
, Nov 24 2008 02:14 PM
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#16
Dive_Girl
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I need to get a life
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Posted 25 November 2008 - 02:24 PM
It's Winter time - you know you're a diver when you're scraping ice off your windshield INSIDE your vehicle...!
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
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Racer184
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Everyone knows me
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Posted 25 November 2008 - 06:43 PM
Just because you don't find anything when you use google or yahoo or msn search or aol or altavista or ask doesnt mean there is not a lot of stuff about you 'out there'.
Lots of websites, like the aforementioned property appraisers office, have a line in the website code that tells the search engines to not index that page. So you can goolge (etc) my name or address or anything all day long and it will not give you a link to the property appraisers office..... but I assure you I am there and more information than you would care to know is there!
Lots of websites, like the aforementioned property appraisers office, have a line in the website code that tells the search engines to not index that page. So you can goolge (etc) my name or address or anything all day long and it will not give you a link to the property appraisers office..... but I assure you I am there and more information than you would care to know is there!
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pmarie
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People are starting to get to know me
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Posted 25 November 2008 - 06:48 PM
Just because you don't find anything when you use google or yahoo or msn search or aol or altavista or ask doesnt mean there is not a lot of stuff about you 'out there'.
Lots of websites, like the aforementioned property appraisers office, have a line in the website code that tells the search engines to not index that page. So you can goolge (etc) my name or address or anything all day long and it will not give you a link to the property appraisers office..... but I assure you I am there and more information than you would care to know is there!
Another place is the Clerk of Court. I use the property appraiser website on a regular basis and then the Clerk's website to search on people. I do apoloize if anyone finds this offensive....I want to know if someone has a serious criminal history or if they are telling the truth in some instances. This has saved me some headaches.
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I spend too much time on line
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Posted 25 November 2008 - 08:36 PM
I'm afraid it will pull up all my speeding tickets lol. ~ D
Ain't love a BEACH?
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Meeting folks
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Posted 25 November 2008 - 11:19 PM
Nothing came up using your formula but then I googled my name and info from this website came up with my padi professional number. I dont like that.
#21
shadragon
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Tech Admin
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Posted 26 November 2008 - 08:54 AM
Your PADI pro number is not confidential. Your qualifications and personal info are and they are protected by the PADI servers. Fine line, but they straddle it nicely.
True. However, that only stops the scrupulous search engines. There are ones out there that grab everything. A locked door only keeps out an honest man...Lots of websites, like the aforementioned property appraisers office, have a line in the website code that tells the search engines to not index that page.
Remember, email is an inefficient communications forum. You may not read things the way it was intended. Give people the benefit of the doubt before firing back... Especially if it is ME...! 
Tech Support - The hard we do right away; the impossible takes us a little longer...
"I like ponies on no-stop diving. They convert "ARGH!! I'M GOING TO DIE" into a mere annoyance." ~Nigel Hewitt
Tech Support - The hard we do right away; the impossible takes us a little longer...
"I like ponies on no-stop diving. They convert "ARGH!! I'M GOING TO DIE" into a mere annoyance." ~Nigel Hewitt
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ddierolf
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I spend too much time on line
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Posted 02 December 2008 - 05:25 PM
"Google Yourself"
Can't you go blind from doing that? 
Can't you go blind from doing that?
Edited by ddierolf, 02 December 2008 - 05:26 PM.
Which end is up?
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