Polishing Your Internet Reputation
It’s very common these days to search the Internet to find out more about people and companies. Many people talk about “googling” or searching for the name of someone or something they know. But what if there’s something on the Internet about you that you don’t want others to see?
No problem. There is now a new business that claims it can polish or improve search results about you on the Internet, and improve your reputation (what others generally feel and think about you). These companies say that they can hide or make it more difficult for those negative search results to appear. Here’s what they do:
The company you hire creates hundreds of links (online connections) between third-party Websites and positive content or information about you or your business. This pushes your negative search results off the first page of results; most people don’t look beyond the first page of results. This is very labor intensive, which means it takes a lot of time and work. The cost? – Between $4000 to $30,000.
Another less expensive service finds where the negative content is stored and asks that information to be removed. These services cost about $30 per item.
This strategy or method doesn’t always work, however. In 1996, the U.S. passed a law called the Communications Decency Act, which says that hosts (owners) of a website are not responsible for what users post on that website. Since many people post anonymously (without using their real names), it is often difficult to find the person who wrote that post, or to convince the host to remove it.
~ Lucy
March 31st, 2008 at 11:31 am
Hello,
I am not sure we are not completely anonymous … technicaly.
There are still a lot of country that hosts of a website are responsible when a users post on a website.
T h a n k y o u v e r y m u c h f o r y o u r w o r k .
March 31st, 2008 at 12:05 pm
In my opinion, It’s extremely important question. First time I thought about it about 2 years ago. Some employers “check” employee in the Internet before in hire him. So it’s only one reasone to think twice before write something. I don’t talk about that we would behave ourself in net(even particular web-sites) polite. It’s our live. It is not place to show your bad manners. So you shouldn’t buy your reputation. I’m hurry to say it’s not all reasonse and situations. See you in googlegroup.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Yes, Dipodidae… we need to write carefully and to be polite when write on internet.
I think non IT people, or people aren´t so close to technology can make more mistakes on internet coz they don´t know
how search engine work and sometimes can found old non polite post.
On the other hand.. give me $30,000 I´ll fix it up for them… LOL
Eduardo gonçalves
April 1st, 2008 at 4:46 am
I have writen sometimes to newspaper blogs, also asking some information about e.m. decease or looking for new medicines that should be good and safe to treat this decease as my wife is suffering it. I have some alerts in google, new york times, and some other places to advise me all about this and other matters.
Now if I write my name in google, it appears and it is quite funny.
When I first started with internet, my older daughter told me not to give real name which ever place I look for, and I did it for some time. Afterward I was fed up telling so many lies about name, aged, and so on. The result is that now I tell the truth nearly everywhere, and I don’t know anything about consequences. But it is too late if I want to change it as I think I am quite well known just in a lot of places.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:03 am
Hello everyone! I think most of you my know about it , but for those ones don’t, try this: Google “find chuck norris” and press I’m feeling llucking button!
Cheers!
Ailo