"The point being, you have to avoid doing and being an awful lot of things to stay off of Google. Though the number of North Americans who don't appear on Google is probably still quite big, it's diminishing every day.
Here's a fun speculation. I wonder if at some point in the far future, the world of data (the Internet, though by then we'll call it something else, probably) will be so huge and all-encompassing that there will be a final person who is the last one to not crop up in a major search engine? Kinda like a noosphere version of Mary Shelley's The Last Man (or the Left Behind series, heh).
Or, even more fun, will there be people who try as hard as possible not to be Googleable?...
Of course, dig this: The converse is also true. If you don't appear on Google, it can seem a little unnerving to the rest of us! It's like being The Man Who Didn't Exist, one of those bit characters on the X-files who doesn't have fingerprints or a Social Security Number or whatever."
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