How to Hide & Be UnGoogleable

Last year News.com published some fairly lame, but still personal details on Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive officer, that was found by searching for his name on Google. Google subsequently banned News.com for a year (showing that along with "do no evil", they also "do no humor").

To save this public humiliation and potential outing from happening to you, adhere to these tips from Wired. In a nutshell, use an alias for everything that will never matter - and give that alias a fake everything - hobbies, location, phone, address, DOB and so on. Your online altered-ego.

I do this, his name is Robert Bast :)