[geeks] Twitter?

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Mon Jan 12 09:59:37 CST 2009


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:26:26AM -0800, Rick Hamell wrote:
> Which is one of the reasons I use it. To manage my online identity. I 
> have a fairly uncommon name (and spelling) so Google brings me up pretty 
> quickly. Until about a year ago, it still brought up some rather 
> unflattering news group posts (from '97) I felt could hurt my employment 
> chances.

If they are/were on Google Groups, Google actually has a way to remove old
posts that you don't want in their archives.  I did quite a lot of this a
few years ago.

http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46493

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas



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