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That is actually a good way to hide public information. Even the best search engines might fail you here.

Boris Johnson has been accused of this. His truely bizarre bus making hobby is one example.

To expand, Boris Johnson heavily promoted a bus manufacturer in Northern Ireland (they went so far as to call them Boris Busses). The company eventually went into administration right during the Brexit fight and were laying off 1,500 people. People speculate in an effort to "SEO" this along with some really damaging news where he was alleged to be having an affair with a model and steering contracts her way, Boris gave a completely bizarre response in an interview:

> Speaking on Talk Radio on Tuesday, the frontrunner to replace Theresa May was asked by the interviewer, Ross Kempsell, what he did to relax.

> Johnson replied: “I like to paint. Or I make things. I have a thing where I make models of buses. What I make is, I get old, I don’t know, wooden crates, and I paint them. It’s a box that’s been used to contain two wine bottles, right, and it will have a dividing thing. And I turn it into a bus."

> “So I put passengers – I paint the passengers enjoying themselves on a wonderful bus – low carbon, of the kind that we brought to the streets of London, reducing C02, reducing nitrous oxide, reducing pollution.”

A few more cases have been ID'ed by people on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/genmon/status/1169719026060320768

Don't forget the other Boris bus with the claim that Brexit would save £350,000,000 per week.

https://mobile.twitter.com/GrantWhiteTZ/status/1144077131602...

>Boris Johnson has created the #BorisBus situation to bury the fact that three years ago he campaigned with an actual bus, promising Brexit millions for the NHS.

Wonder if there are more examples of this hiding, intentionally or not. I recently could not find the Trinity and Beyond [0] movie on DDG, because all hits were of some family vlog (though I still find it on Google first page).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_and_Beyond

Happens all the time, I don't have links right now but i've seen several instances of individual or companies publishing tonnes of content right after something bad happened (crime or other) to try to push the bad news away from the front page.

Somebody posted a French example recently.

EDIT: There have also been suggestions that the current UK Prime Minister has done this.

Rudy Giuliani's company is named Fraud Guarantee. This was apparently chosen to push down search results about one of the co-founders' legal issues.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/giuliani-associate-left-trail-o...

Seems incredibly...apt in retrospect.

Counter-Strike: Source

Ah, that is one hell of a documentary.

I hope I still have my copy laying around because it's one of those films that I can watch every few years and be amazed again and again.

Edit: I guess it will not be long before it's even harder to find, but at least the page is archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20190129000701/http://www.atomce...

Also awesome is the motion picture soundtrack! Can still be found on Amazon.

The worst I've run into is back when I was still doing a lot of Cisco networking, and Apple came out with IOS, which was the same name as Cisco's IOS operating system. As I remember, Apple ended up having to license the name.

Seemed like overnight it became nearly impossible to search for Cisco IOS (since many relevant posts didn't call out Cisco by name, since why would you, IOS is obviously Cisco IOS)

Doubt it's intentional but ISIS springs to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Sensor_is_Structure

True but only if you're using just RHEL. Usually adding just one word will disambiguate the multiple uses of a word or acronym. RHEL weapon vs RHEL OS for example.

First Google search result I get for “RHEL weapon”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Hat

And #7:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-n...

But #2-#6 are more what you'd probably expect.

Not anymore. Especially not if you google "RHEL laser".

I share the same name as the heads of public relations for two of the largest corporations on Earth. I love the anonymity.

How many possibilities does that leave? You might have just given your real name to a sufficiently motivated researcher, assuming what you said is accurate.

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