[ErrantX]

wonderwheelhuh emailed me the names and, just to confirm, I get the same results (so it doesn't appear to be a hold over from his Google settings/history).

One of the names (the ex's) is the same as a reasonably high profile writer (2K google hits) on the internet so there is a possibility that it is something she visited (perhaps Google reader?) has triggered the link. Edit: it seems his ex is that writer. So the Google reader etc. idea is a red herring :)

The link is one way (it seems) from the current gf to the ex.

(I know that reiterate as lot of what he already said..)

But it does appear somehow Google has linked his ex's name to his gf by some algorithm/process.

[dkarl]

Perhaps they were linked by one of them obsessively googling the other. I've received bitter comments about a current girlfriend's appearance, occupation, and religion from an ex with whom I shared none of that information. I did a Google search and came up with exactly the information my ex had. The same ex had, when she was my girlfriend, researched my previous ex and obsessed about her appearance, occupation, etc.