On Jan 27, 8:58*am, micky wrote:
OT

Yesterday I found out when he mailed me a glossy advertisement for the
service deparatment that the dealer where I bought a used car 6 months
ago made up a webpage with my first and last name as part of the url.
And my home address on the page.

I've gone to a lot of trouble to keep my home address out of the phone
book and off the web.

My name is in the high level domain area, between www and .com.

Do you think search engines will find it? * *So far I think they
haven't.

If you didn't authorize the web page I would go to his showroom and
demand, not ask, that it be taken down now! Again, do it in the
showroom - loudly.

In answer to your main question: Yes - the web browsers will probably
catch up with it but it might take a month or more. Browsers collect
information from "spiders" which are systematic queries that crawl the
internet and collect information from web sites. The main source they
query is in header material that is invisible to the surfer, but
provides pertinent informant about the site. This is the area that
developers populate with the important information, key words and
phrases that they want the browsers to see. Well populated headers
tend to move a page up, in ranking, with browsers.

But - body information, like your name and personal information can
very well show up too. We set up a couple of pages for our local
community a year or two ago. One has very well populated header
information. It took about 3-4 weeks before information started
showing up through browsing; but then, over a period of about another
month we became very easy to find. In fact, our museum site pops to
the top of Google if you enter the first two words. But other words
and terms, not included in the headers, also pop up with casual
browsing.

If these turkeys did this without your permission, they have violated
your privacy.

Do you know what you signed when you made the purchase?

RonB