Find Yourself Online

Google has done it again! They never cease to amaze me. The company has designed an online management system that monitors online mentions of your name. This must be music to the ears of the 10 million paranoid people in the world and another bad day for the people who are members of the “I Hate Google Club”.  I think this is a really cool management program that even I would eventually play with. The program which is called Me on the Web tracks online references to your name and other malicious, unfitting, or incorrect information.

These Google Alerts work much like network management system alarm events. Whenever the Google search engine crawler finds information regarding key names; Me on the Web creates alarm events and provides the resources to remove unwanted content. Personal information like email addresses and phone numbers will also trigger events. 

For all you people in the world who like sexting after knocking back a few drinks on Saturday night can take advantage of this service as well. If that special someone decides they want to show the world your goodies, Me on the Web can also send alerts for any embarrassing pictures of yourself posted on the web, and offers tips on removing the content from Google search results.

After researching the topic I did find a couple flaws. One of which is that some users will get alerts for email addresses closely related to their own. In addition, information could take up to six months to be removed from Google caches.  We learn from this that the service is not flawless and you can expect to get what you pay for which by the way is a $0 monthly service fee. Although, like everything else with Google anticipate to see improvements over time and maybe even a paid version at some point.