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by INIT_6 4538 days ago
Sorry, didn't check back to see if anyone replied to me until today. Source, My self. Unfortunately I don't think I can recreate my proof.

Around July 2013 the company I work for was looking for a new front desk person to handle payroll/AP/answer phones. Well the main boss was googling the top 4 people. One popped up as a criminal like 4 or 5 links down on google. He went around poking fun of her and her arrest recorded. At first I laughed. The next day I was thinking how did he get this info. I asked him and he said a simple google search.

I did the same search sure enough there she was. (mind you we have no idea how she is spouse to look) He dismissed her based on this alone. What really sucks. Something seemed off so I looked into. I was able to get the exact same picture to show up on several names and several charges. Started playing around with it and got pretty good at predicting the results. I know for 100% fact it was dynamically creating pages. I got pretty bored fairly quick. So I didn't note anything down as its not my main interest.

Why I think I can't recreate what I was seeing. It seems they have been getting in a lot of trouble as of late.

General article talking about it: http://www.project-disco.org/competition/101113-mugshot-mess...

Why Google should change search Algorithm: http://searchengineland.com/opinion-why-google-should-crack-...

Google changes search algorithm: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-mugshot-algorithm-17526.h...

Some articles talking about the ohio case: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/business/mugged-by-a-mug-s...

Its a removal service but links to all the sites: I'm sure one of them is the one I was talking about. If you want to spend time i'm sure you can reverse some of the sites algorithms and find something similar to what I was talking about. http://www.internetreputation.com/information/delete-your-mu...

and 19hours ago they WON! YAY!: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/01/07/Plaintiffs-win-set...

I realize am just some random dude on the Internet so I understand you can't just take my word for it, but there it is. Hopefully, its enough information to make you think I am not some kind of lair ;)