On Sep 9, 4:41Â pm, RayGordon
cybersheet.com> wrote:> In a perfect example of online business synergy, Google has announced
> the purchase of ReputationDefender, the online company devoted to
> helping people repair their cyber-reputation.
Does this mean that I won't be able to do a Google image search for
"Nikki Catsouras" anymore?
> "This is an amazing breakthrough," said a Google spokesperson. Â "As we
> all know, Google causes 99.9 percent of the damage to someone's
> reputation to begin with, because we can't be sued for archiving it in
> our search engine, even though Google is the only reason most people
> would find the defamation in the first place. Â I mean, someone gets
> defamed on a board with a dozen people reading, no one would notice,
> but when they search the target by name, it comes right up for anyone
> snooping. Â What this means is the need for sites like
> ReputationDefender will never go away."
From what I understand, all Reputation Defender does is send letters
to people asking them to take stuff down, causing the recipients of
said letters to ignore said letters.
> Google was also optimistic about the growth of ReputationDefender,
> because, as the spokesperson pointed out, "only a fraction of people
> really use Google to snoop into others' lives. Â In the next decade, we
> expect that percentage to increaes sharply. Â Even fewer people have
> mastered the art of google-bombing
I think I like Archimedes Plutonium's "search engine bombing" better.
> people, or using Google as a
> defamation weapon by planting it in obscure internet areas. Â Also, as
> people learn about anonymous posting, proxies, and remailers, that
> make their messages untraceable, they'll lose their fear of being sued
> even more."
>
> (note: this is parody)
Say, Gordon, with your obsession about what you consider "defamation",
why haven't you contacted Reputation Defender yet? Or, have you
contacted them, and if so, what was the outcome?
(Zl zbarl'f ba Tbeqba univat gevrq gb uver gurz, ohg ehaavat vagb n
guerr-gubhfnaq qbyyne fghzoyvat oybpx.)
Also, I noticed that you're using Google Groups to post to usenet now.
Why is that? And what happened to your .sig?
