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   caiuschen, Apr 13th, 2004 @ 1:19am

   
   

   I'd say that they're still useful for people with common names. Such as David Chen.

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   Google background checks

   

   Mark, Apr 13th, 2004 @ 9:52am

   
   

   Same thing happened here in Seattle last year: the school superintendent position was open, and of the three finalists, two had professional histories that raised serious questions about their qualifications and fitness for office. Who found that out? A local alternative weekly, whose writers took ten minutes to Google the candidates' names. Apparently no one on the school board had bothered to perform even a cursory background check at any point in the interview process.
   
   (All three candidates ultimately withdrew their names and the job went to the acting superintendent.)

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