I Keep finding my name on info search engine sites
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Author: LGLMOM, Location: USA
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject: I Keep finding my name on info search engine sites
I am new. If I didn't follow protocol, please let me know.
Question: I keep finding my name on info sites. 
I think I am now on 800+ info sites. How do I get it to stop. I have myself on search engine alert to see when new ones pop up. It seems each time I go online, shortly thereafter, a new notice is sent to me. Microsoft Live Onecare does not find a virus. My kids were searching my name recently and they found a link to several pornography sites 
with my name 
(and no, they didn't find me on the site--lol--just my name that linked them to it).
Thanks! 
Lisa [/b]
Author: PCBruiser,
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:41 pm Post subject:
Moved to the Privacy forum, a better spot for this question.
Author: grsamf,
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject:
Moved to General Computer Problems.
I don't see a problem. Plugging anybody's name into Google will return anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand results. More common names can produce millions. E.g., "Robert Smith" gives over 3,000,000.
PCB: We crossed trails there. Privacy is probably a better place for this thread than General Computing.
Author: PCBruiser,
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:00 pm Post subject:
No problem. If I plug my real name into Google without my middle initial, I get 1,180,000 references, and with my middle initial, 3,430,000 references due to the way Google handles partial matches in searches.
Author: LGLMOM, Location: USA
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:18 am Post subject:
The strange thing is that what appears on the sites with my name, is the exact string-word for word-that I had recently searched.
Does this change things?
Lisa
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