Mary Schmidt Marketing Troubleshooter

From Silicon Beat …“In case you missed it, the fuss stems from a CNET article that revealed a bunch of personal information about Google’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, based on what CNET could find from Google searches. This included the $1.5 billion value of his shares in Google, the name of his wife, his residence in Atherton, the fact that he is the host of a $10,000-a-plate fund-raiser for Al Gore’s presidential campaign, and so on.”

Yep, that’s right - CNET “googled” Google’s CEO (no relation to me by the way.) And, now Google says it won’t talk to anybody at CNET for a whole year! So, there - nah-nah-nah!

Here’s the thing - you can find out just about anything about anybody, thanks to Google, and the many on-line companies that will do all kinds of searches for very little money. All of which is just too fun when we’re googling other people - not so fun when we realize others can do the same to us.

I’d say the only way any of us could really ever be “private” again is to go off the grid, both physically and virtually…but then somebody could just get a Google satellite photo of our cabin in the woods…