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  • Ever Spent 38 Minutes Looking for a Document?

    Posted May 18, 2009 - 11:08 am

    A new survey finds that employees at big companies (with more than 10,000 employees) spend, on average, 38 minutes searching for one document -- whether that's on their own computers or their organization's networks, databases or intranet.

  • What Google knows about you

    Posted May 11, 2009 - 2:10 pm

    Google may know more about you than your mother does. Got a problem with that?

  • How to Address Defamatory Online Content

    Posted April 13, 2009 - 10:25 am

    What can you do when you find content about yourself online that you think is defamation? How do you address it? Is it possible to have it removed from search results or from the web altogether?

  • People Search Engines: They Know Your Dark Secrets

    Posted March 11, 2009 - 10:12 am

    In our age of social sharing, we expect some of our thoughts to be public. But as we slowly put more and more pieces of ourselves online, specialized search engines are making it easier than ever to pull them together into a highly detailed (and potentially invasive) profile of our virtual lives.

  • Deleting your digital past -- for good

    Posted November 17, 2008 - 11:59 am

    As time goes by, more of us are being tailed by some little thing out there on the Web, an awful bit that emerges when someone Googles our names, a black mark that we'd like to erase before a colleague or a prospective employer sees it. Is it possible for an ordinary person to get some damaging tidbit entirely erased from the Web?
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