When I recently searched my name it came up in some links associated with p**n websites. Can this be removed?

Question

Searching my name came up with links that had my name in them. I don't know how this came about. The link seems to be to celebrity and other p**n type sites. When I click on them it brings me to a "spy scanner" site which looks like a virus. I'm concerned that others who search my name will see it associated with "teen s*x/Princess Diana death photo's/other nude photos/etc". The search has roughly 7 links like this. All of them are similar..one is 9ulde-free-movies.cn. How can I remove this or stop this from happening. I'm concerned with my reputation

Answer 1

If you have a relatively common name, and/or your name is similar to that of a celebrity or a p**n star, don't worry about it.  Most likely what you're seeing is that operators of the p**n and celebrity sites are hiding all kinds of common words (and famous names) on their sites' pages in order to make them come up higher in search engine results.

For example, during the recent to-do about Vanessa Hudgens from High School Musical having had a nude picture taken, there were probably all kinds of searches having to do with her name.  A savvy p**n site operator might put her name someplace on his site (even if he doesn't have any content that has anything to do with her) so that his site would show up in the results when people were doing all those searches for her.

EDIT:  It's not unusual for p**n movie "stars" to come up with off-the-wall stage names.  You probably just got unlucky and one of them coined a name similar to your real one, and then the p**n site operators slipped that star's stage name into their sites, as I talked about before.

As for your reputation, just make sure that the people who **need** to contact you have the appropriate information ... either by way of your slowmail and e-mail addresses on business cards, give them the URL for your business's website, whatever applies to you.  That way, people who NEED to reach you already have the info so they won't have to resort to searching on Google or Yahoo and then finding your name linked with p**n sites.

There's lots of garbage on the Internet, anyway.  The people who know you, even if only slightly, can probably tell the difference between what's really associated with your name and the garbage that some slimey web operator has on his China-based site.