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Influence your name search

Google is giving people influence over what information turns up during online searches on their names.

The California Internet search king on Tuesday began featuring voluntarily created Google profiles at the bottoms of US "name-query" pages. "It's no secret that from time to time many of us have searched on Google for our name or someone else's," Google software engineer Brian Stoler wrote in a posting at the Internet firm's website.