Re: [NTLK] My newton future... :-(

From: Andrew Beals <andrew.beals_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu Oct 08 2009 - 10:43:15 EDT

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Goodwin, Greg P. <GoodwinG@aafes.com> wrote:
>
> I saw a site that claimed if you subscribed to it, you could find out who
> has googled you.

It's a scam. Their initial advertising on FB, "Who searched you?" with its
wincingly incorrect construction should be a big hint.

The closest you can get is Google Trends: http://www.google.com/trends
Which is to say if your name is one of the top ten searches on "the google"
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ45fO1uiOQ ) then you can be sure that
someone or someones is either trying to find you, has tried a DDOS on the
google (see above link), or the google (ibid) has a serious bug. You can't
know *who* is doing the search.

In their defense: They probably will honor their contract and tell you who
is using their service to search for you. (That doesn't make it less scammy
though)

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