[toxicflavor]

Eric Schmidt's comments are being taken out of context. His statements were a warning that unless young people particularly start taking their online privacy seriously, they may be left with no recourse for erasing their online past, short of some extreme measure like changing their name. But he was not "suggesting" to change one's name - rather, he was warning about the dangers of diminished online privacy.

[akadruid]

Unless you have a distinctive name, and the internet gets a lot better at remembering over the long term, there's still nothing to worry about.

Try finding anything from 10 years ago or for anyone named Smith, Jones, Taylor, or Patel. I'll bet that doesn't improve in the next ten years either.