Comments on: Google thyself http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/07/google-thyself.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Pimp your Googlehttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/07/google-thyself.html#comment-86605 Pimp your Google Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:44:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/07/google-thyself.html#comment-86605 Not to undermine the larger point made that "search engine reputation" management is prudent and useful to a physician practicing today, two points:<br/><br/>First, googling or searching public information is not stalking by any definition. Most of the internet is not a private space, the information available for searching is public.<br/><br/>Stalking would be using that information to contact and terrorize the victim or proxies for the victim.<br/><br/>Second point: the "experts" appear to be distorting or exaggerating for effect by using the word "slander" incorrectly or very loosely, i.e., in a non-legal sense.<br/><br/>See also that lawsuit Gary Condit filed against Dominic Dunne, thrown out of court recently.<br/>Opinions formed by patients are not "slander" even in the loose sense if they are an opinion about subjective matters. Not to undermine the larger point made that “search engine reputation” management is prudent and useful to a physician practicing today, two points:

First, googling or searching public information is not stalking by any definition. Most of the internet is not a private space, the information available for searching is public.

Stalking would be using that information to contact and terrorize the victim or proxies for the victim.

Second point: the “experts” appear to be distorting or exaggerating for effect by using the word “slander” incorrectly or very loosely, i.e., in a non-legal sense.

See also that lawsuit Gary Condit filed against Dominic Dunne, thrown out of court recently.
Opinions formed by patients are not “slander” even in the loose sense if they are an opinion about subjective matters.

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