DETERMINATION OF YOUR WEB SEARCH | RESULTS | REPUTATION MANAGEMENT

FROM THE - JOURNALS of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA

~Contributed & Written by Kenneth Rijock~

HOW TO DETERMINE IF YOUR WEB SEARCH RESULTS HAVE BEEN ALTERED BY REPUTATION MANAGEMENT

Readers who are asking themselves how to determine whether negative information they are looking for in an online search have been altered, by reputation management techniques, which seek to conceal that data behind literally dozens of artificially-created websites, should ask themselves whether the search results involve one or more of the following tricks:

(1) Posting multiple websites, with .net, .org, .biz. and other suffixes, under the target's name.

(2) Creating pages on all of the social networking sites ( e.g. Facebook, Twitter) in English, and in any other language relevant to the target's activities.

(3) Creating pages on business networking sites, as in Linked-In.

(4) Creating national & international news pages under the target's name.

(5) Creating sports-oriented webpages, containing the target's name.

(6) Photo pages, even if the photos are not relevant to the client.

(7)Miscellaneous Internet postings, on bulletin boards, as replies to existing postings, or as new postings, which depict the target in a positive manner.

(8) I have even seen suggestive photographs posted; does the reputation management firm honestly think that this will sidetrack the searchers ?

All of the above reference the target; many are pure surplusage, irrelevant to his history and interests, but serving to clog the world-wide web search results. If you see such garbage, know immediately that you cannot trust the search results. 

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Most of DUE DILIGENCE Internet searches are USELESS

FROM THE - JOURNALS of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA

~Contributed & Written by Kenneth Rijock ~

ONLINE REPUTATION MANAGEMENT COMPANIES MAKE INTERNET SEARCHES UNRELIABLE

The explosion of the so-called reputation management industry recently has rendered most due diligence Internet searches useless. These companies, which reply upon placing literally dozens of pages of positive PR into the worldwide web, so as to push any negative information about their clients well to the rear of any search engine enquiry, have so diluted the search results that you need in a due diligence investigation, as to deprive you of the sole important item you are searching for.

While some compliance officers, upon seeing this garbage on the first page of their Internet search results, have taken to searching from the rear forwards, but that is generally not the solution, for that one gem of negative information is buried somewhere within 750 search results, it may not be readily ascertainable from the headings, and you have another 22 names to conduct due diligence upon that day. Manual searching, through an infinite amount of bogus search results is not only labor-intensive, but it is inefficient and causes you to lose your edge later on in the workday.

If anything , there reputation repair firms will proliferate during the future, as more financial criminals realise their worth. Therefore, cast aside the technique altogether, and abandon traditional web searches for software that delivers  strictly negative search results. You can find more information about how that works here.

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