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Fighting Negative Online Items On You

Jul 23, 2008
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Daniel Sieberg On Companies That Help People, Businesses Combat Such Postings (CBS) If you Googled yourself and something negative came up in a top spot, would you know how to fight back? One man, with a very popular name, decided to help others protect their good names, reports CBS News Science and Technology Correspondent Daniel Sieberg. Chris Martin is the lead singer of Coldplay and the leading man of actress Gwyneth Paltrow. But there's also the much lesser-known Chris Martin who hails from Baton Rouge, La. And it turns out that sharing your name with a superstar can be a good thing in the digital age. "Chris Martin is a great Google name," Martin observed. "If you go to Google and type in Chris Martin, you'll see tons and tons of pages about the lead singer of Coldplay. ... If someone were to post something negative... [read full story]                    

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