Comments on: Google, Google on the Wall. . . http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/05/the_allimportan.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:18:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: arthur http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/05/the_allimportan.html/comment-page-1#comment-53793 arthur Fri, 25 May 2007 20:39:50 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/05/google-google-on-the-wall.html#comment-53793 AM's problem reminds of a litigation problem, where we issued third-party subpoenas to various corporations concerning a now-defunct company caleld IT Group. All of the subpoenaed parties complained that they couldn't search for computerized records in any reasonable way. Even the Company's own auditor couldn't find its records. AM’s problem reminds of a litigation problem, where we issued third-party subpoenas to various corporations concerning a now-defunct company caleld IT Group. All of the subpoenaed parties complained that they couldn’t search for computerized records in any reasonable way. Even the Company’s own auditor couldn’t find its records.

]]> By: Belle Lettre http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/05/the_allimportan.html/comment-page-1#comment-53792 Belle Lettre Fri, 25 May 2007 03:05:43 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/05/google-google-on-the-wall.html#comment-53792 And here I am, paranoid enough to be pseudonymous! It kind of disturbs me, this naming of children to affect googability/marketability. Goes far beyond the Freakonomics tactic of naming your child to succeed. Indeed, they might go in contrary ways. If naming your child something non-ethnic or to signal a certa class strata means that your child will be another Michael, Kaitlyn, or Heather; then maybe there is something to more unique first name--as long as it's not ethnic. Still kinds of disturbs me how much life is now measured by algorithms, as if that was the useful metric to measure personal success. Seems kind of presumptuous to think you'll be the only John Q. Wilson of distinction. Wasn't it Shakespeare who said something about a rose, blah blah, other name, blah blah, sweet? And here I am, paranoid enough to be pseudonymous!

It kind of disturbs me, this naming of children to affect googability/marketability. Goes far beyond the Freakonomics tactic of naming your child to succeed.

Indeed, they might go in contrary ways. If naming your child something non-ethnic or to signal a certa class strata means that your child will be another Michael, Kaitlyn, or Heather; then maybe there is something to more unique first name–as long as it’s not ethnic.

Still kinds of disturbs me how much life is now measured by algorithms, as if that was the useful metric to measure personal success. Seems kind of presumptuous to think you’ll be the only John Q. Wilson of distinction.

Wasn’t it Shakespeare who said something about a rose, blah blah, other name, blah blah, sweet?

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