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Good question – How does the web see you?

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The idea of “googling yourself” has been around for several years, but that is a pretty one-dimensional view of things. If you want a more detailed look, try this:

http://personas.media.mit.edu

Personas… uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

Try it on yourself, but also try it on other people and/or celebrities and see what you discover about them. It can be enlightening.

You might also try the semantic search engines listed on this page and see what you discover:

9 Semantic Search Engines that will change the world

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