Search and destroy

I Google myself, I confess.

Now it’s time to commit that ultimate act of digital narcissism publicly, in the interests of this article. It’s time to deep-Google myself, and go beyond the first few pages.

Before you put your name into Google’s tool bar and hit ‘search’, what would be the worst outcome? If you are important or famous (the two are often entirely different), what haters lurk online waiting to rip you to cyber shreds? The internet, the most important invention since the printing press, is full of haters. The anonymity makes it a giant petri dish of crazed opinion, and insane insults.