[HN Gopher] 'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest s...
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       'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest search engine
       broken?
        
       Author : iainmerrick
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2024-07-20 22:34 UTC (30 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | talldayo wrote:
       | > When I searched my name, there it was: a picture of my smiling
       | face next to the text "Tom Faber was a physicist and publisher,
       | and he was a university lecturer at Cambridge for 35 years".
       | 
       | Good grief. Pal, you've got a name with 8 identifying
       | alphanumeric characters. Of course it is going to collide with
       | other identities on the openly-indexed internet.
       | 
       | "John Smith denounces Facebook for showing other, more prominent
       | John Smiths before himself"
        
         | 8organicbits wrote:
         | The article isn't about a name collision, it's about the photo:
         | 
         | > confused pictures of my face with the biography of another
         | man who shared my name
        
       | 8organicbits wrote:
       | DuckDuckGo doesn't have this issue; it doesn't show a photo in
       | the info-box.
       | 
       | [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Tom+Faber
        
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