{"id":4527,"date":"2013-06-25T08:44:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2013-06-25T08:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:45:39","slug":"being-ungoogleable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/25\/being-ungoogleable\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Ungoogleable"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n

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Internet anonymity is the height of chic<\/h1>\n

In this age of information overload, internet exhibitionism and NSA snooping, is it possible to make yourself unGoogleable? And does it earn you added credibility, as fashion designer Phoebe Philo and bands such as !!! suggest?<\/em><\/p>\n

by\u00a0Stuart Jeffries<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Googleproof\"<\/p>\n

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‘<\/sup>The chicest thing,” said\u00a0fashion<\/a>\u00a0designer\u00a0Phoebe Philo<\/a>\u00a0recently,\u00a0“is when you don’t exist on Google. God, I would love to be that person!”<\/a><\/p>\n

Philo, creative director of C\u00e9line, is not that person. As the London Evening Standard put it: “Unfortunately for the famously publicity-shy London designer \u2013 Paris born, Harrow-on-the-Hill raised \u2013 who has reinvented the way modern women dress, privacy may well continue to be a luxury.” Nobody who is oxymoronically described as “famously publicity-shy” will ever be unGoogleable. And if you’re not unGoogleable then, if Philo is right, you can never be truly chic, even if you were born in Paris. And if you’re not truly chic, then you might as well die \u2013 at least if you’re in fashion.<\/p>\n

If she truly wanted to disappear herself from Google, Philo could start by changing her superb name to something less diverting. Prize-winning novelist AM Homes is an outlier in this respect. Google “am homes” and you’re in a world of blah US real estate rather than cutting-edge literature. But then Homes\u00a0has thought a lot about privacy<\/a>, having written a play about the most famously private person in recent history, JD Salinger, and had him threaten to sue her as a result.<\/p>\n

And Homes isn’t the only one to make herself difficult to detect online.UnGoogleable bands<\/a>\u00a0are 10 a penny. The New York-based band !!! (known verbally as “chick chick chick” or “bang bang bang” \u2013 apparently “Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point” proved too verbose for their meagre fanbase)\u00a0must drive their business manager nuts<\/a>. As must the band Merchandise, whose name \u2013 one might think \u2013 is a nominalist satire of commodification by the music industry. Nice work, Brad, Con, John and Rick.<\/p>\n

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