Agreed. A Google search of my name (no quotes) brings up... 1) my web site, modestly named after myself 2) my amazon.com profile 3) one of my music album

Agreed. A Google search of my name (no quotes) brings up... 1) my web site, modestly named after myself 2) my amazon.com profile 3) one of my music albums on cdbaby.com 4) my weblog at MIT 5) my linkedin profile 6) my GNU Savannah profile 7) my photo.net profile 8) my facebook profile So perhaps getting one's name onto some other more high-profile sites is a decent way to wash out some unwanted history. Edit: ...whereas a now embarassingly uninformed post that I made to a mailing list in my earlier days on the web doesn't show up until page 10 of Google results. Used to be on the first page.