Why You Should Google Yourself

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Whether it's a potential employer, current employer, budding romantic partner, long-time significant other, or someone else in your life, there's a good chance they have or will run a Google search for your name. Do you know everything that they'll find?
The answer could make a difference between a job and the unemployment line, or ‘happily ever after’ and nights alone. That's why you need to run your own search first.[. . .]
Afterward, switch over to Google's Image Search at images.google.com and locate any pictures of you. It's much easier to scan hundreds of images quickly than hundreds of links. You might be surprised at the images you find.
If you're worried that specific images have escaped your control, you can run a reverse image search. This is one of the slickest things you can do using Google Search.
On the Google Image Search page, click the camera icon in the search bar. Then paste in a link to the image, or upload an image, and Google will search the Internet for it. Your image can turn up even if it doesn't have your name or other identifying information.
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Even if you don't find much now, someone might post something about you in the future.
That's why you need to set up a free Google Alert for yourself. This service sends you an email when your name, or other information you choose, pops up online. It’s a great, easy way to monitor your own digital reputation.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/06/06/why-should-google-yourself-now/

Why you should Google yourself now
By Kim Komando
Published June 06, 2015
The Kim Komando Show

Timing of These Revelations Was Determined By What?

Why is this man wearing a Columbia University hoodie?



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In 2007, General Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former Romanian intelligence chief and a defector to the West, wrote an article for National Review, in which he detailed a plot hatched by the Soviet KGB to discredit the Catholic Church. It involved production of a 1968 play titled The Deputy, ostensibly by German dramatist Rolf Hochhuth, which charged that Pope Pius XII had collaborated with the Nazis. Though pretty much discredited right from the start, this claim has been the seed for a series of articles and books that have carried on a drumbeat of accusations about World War II papal anti-Semitism.
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But, what has this reflection to do with Bill Cosby?
Whether or not Cosby is guilty -- and, once again, he may very well be (I’m certainly not equating him with Pius XII) -- it strikes me as interesting that we should be hearing so much about his purportedly vicious antics just now.
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one of the alleged victims -- actress/producer Barbara Bowman, who claims Cosby raped her back in 1985 -- asked a very pertinent question in an op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post: “Why did it take 30 years for people to believe my story?”
Why, indeed?
But more to the point, why now?
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there’s an increasing smell of opportunism around this sad episode in the ongoing Cosby show.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/cosbys_last_act.html

November 24, 2014
Cosby's Last Act
By Bill Kassel

How to Defend Against Character Assassination


"The question facing any public figure who has been the target of character assassination in the media is: Is it worth investing a large amount of time in a process that can make you worse off by spreading the very lie that you are suing to stop?"

http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/10/20/to_sue_or_not?page=full

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Townhall.com Columnist
To Sue or Not
by Thomas Sowell