Is your boss Googling you?
Filed in: Google — October 26th, 2004
Almost one in four Net surfers has searched online for information about someone at work or a business contact, according to a new survey released Thursday.
The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive for search engine Dogpile, said about 23 percent of adult Internet users in the United States have searched online for their clients or customers, workers or potential employees, and supervisors or prospective managers.
Reasons for the searches vary. While curiosity was the most common reason for searches on co-workers, some people looked up clients and customers to get prosaic information such as an address or phone number.
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