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Moses: I Googled myself and all I got was 31,700,00 results

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December 17, 2007

” target = “_blank”>Pew Internet Life Peeps:

NEW YORK – More Americans are Googling themselves — and many are checking out their friends, co-workers and romantic interests, too.

In a report Sunday, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said 47 percent of U.S. adult Internet users have looked for information about themselves through Google or another search engine.

That is more than twice the 22 percent of users who did in 2002, but Pew senior research specialist Mary Madden was surprised the growth wasn’t higher.

“Yes it’s doubled, but it’s still the case that there’s a big chunk of Internet users who have never done this simple act of plugging their name with search engines,” she said. “Certainly awareness has increased, but I don’t know it’s necessarily kept pace with the amount of content we post about ourselves or what others post about us.”

Which begs the question: What would Moshe Rabbenu do?

Well, Googling for Moses gets ” target =”_blank”>scores just over a million, and

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