Profile Engine: Sort of Finding the Forgotten
October 13, 2014
In the supplemental lecture added after the intel conference ended, I addressed the topic of disappearing content. The “right to be forgotten” is one of the great ideas emerging from government committees. I wonder who wants to be forgotten? I provided some basic information about finding information about these forgotten entities.
One of the attendees at my lecture alerted me to Profile Engine. I navigated to the link and learned:
Profile Engine is a fairly low-budget-looking search engine, started in 2007 in New Zealand and partly owned by the Auckland University of Technology. It allows you to find people on social networks. Google has been getting a lot of requests to reverse this trend—almost 3,300 results from Profile Engine have been taken down by Google since May, when the “right to be forgotten” came into effect.
You can find Profile Engine at http://profileengine.com/. We can’t endorse the system, but we will check it out, and I will have an update for my next lecture. Conference organizers extend invitations via email. If you don’t hear about an event, you need to get yourself unforgotten. That’s a bit of humor for this Monday morning.
Stephen E Arnold, October 13, 2014
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