Sam Handel: Sorting Fact From Noise When a Name Becomes a Search Query
Type “sam handel” into a search engine and you may be surprised by how quickly a simple name turns complicated. A first name as…
Read MoreType “sam handel” into a search engine and you may be surprised by how quickly a simple name turns complicated. A first name as…
Read MoreThe phrase “theodore barrett press secretary” has a peculiar afterlife on the internet. People run into it in comment threads, in screenshot-style quote graphics,…
Read MoreStan Cadwallader is not a household name, and he has never seemed to want to be one. Yet his life intersects with one of…
Read MoreType “marion walmsley” into a search bar and you may expect a neat biography: a single page that explains who she is, what she…
Read MoreType “Jessica Blyth Barrymore” into a search bar and you quickly run into a peculiar modern problem: a name that feels plausible, looks like…
Read MoreA surprising number of internet searches are not really about a person’s achievements, but about proximity: to power, to celebrity, to an administration, to…
Read MorePublic curiosity has a funny way of latching onto certain names. Sometimes it’s because someone built a company, ran for office, or made headlines…
Read MoreType “chewy thompson” into Google and you’ll quickly notice something interesting: it sounds like it should point to one obvious thing—a well-known person, a character, a brand, a…
Read MoreYou type a name into Google and expect a clean answer. Sometimes you get one. Other times—especially with a name like cicely johnston—you get a…
Read MoreType “jakobi wilburn” into Google and you might be surprised by what shows up—or what doesn’t. Sometimes you’ll see a clean set of results: a LinkedIn page,…
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