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| − | + | I have always been pretty active online, so when I first searched myself on Google, I was not surprised to see that I did not need to do much of a “deep dive” to find information about myself. I would say that my first name is pretty common, so I was expecting to see many people named Catherine Grillo pop up that were not me. While this was the case, it was still very easy to find photos of myself from high school, sports statistics, and social media accounts. One concern I had when first searching myself is that Google already knows who I am because I use the search engine every day. To mitigate this information Google has on me, I decided to search myself on an incognito browser. I would like to think that an incognito browser would help with a fresh start on Google because I was not logged into my account, and there was no browsing history for Google to reference. I also used different search engines to compare the results (spoiler alert: Google had the most information on me, by far). The results on my Google search were simultaneously not surprising and troubling. I will admit, it is unsettling to know that someone can easily find all my addresses and my relatives and my demographic information from a simple Google search. I knew I would be able to find social media accounts, like LinkedIn, but I did not expect to find very personal information and also personal familial information. A general theme I noticed throughout my searching is that I felt a feeling of unsettlement from being able to find so much information about myself in such a short amount of time. And not only was there an abundance of information, but it was completely accurate information as well. | |
==Search Engines== | ==Search Engines== | ||
Revision as of 21:18, 18 February 2021
I have always been pretty active online, so when I first searched myself on Google, I was not surprised to see that I did not need to do much of a “deep dive” to find information about myself. I would say that my first name is pretty common, so I was expecting to see many people named Catherine Grillo pop up that were not me. While this was the case, it was still very easy to find photos of myself from high school, sports statistics, and social media accounts. One concern I had when first searching myself is that Google already knows who I am because I use the search engine every day. To mitigate this information Google has on me, I decided to search myself on an incognito browser. I would like to think that an incognito browser would help with a fresh start on Google because I was not logged into my account, and there was no browsing history for Google to reference. I also used different search engines to compare the results (spoiler alert: Google had the most information on me, by far). The results on my Google search were simultaneously not surprising and troubling. I will admit, it is unsettling to know that someone can easily find all my addresses and my relatives and my demographic information from a simple Google search. I knew I would be able to find social media accounts, like LinkedIn, but I did not expect to find very personal information and also personal familial information. A general theme I noticed throughout my searching is that I felt a feeling of unsettlement from being able to find so much information about myself in such a short amount of time. And not only was there an abundance of information, but it was completely accurate information as well.
