Getting a job is hard enough but what would happen if your employer Googled your name one day and found articles that painted you in a bad light.

If the articles mentioned a criminal charge, even though you were cleared, you might still lose your job

There are solutions to this problem. There are organizations that can "push down" hostile web pages :-

• XR1 has it's BackWatch project, which can deflect searches away and detect when searches are being made, who is making them and the context.