Googling for social security numbers- May 22, 2003 Now and again, I google for my social security number, hoping that the number of hits will be zero but fearing that it won't be. So far, so good. In case you've never tried it, here's an interesting experiment. Search for the first digit, then the first two digits, and so on until you build up the string of all nine digits. Here's the pattern for me: digits Google of SS hits 1 952,000,000 2 182,000,000 3 5,900,000 4 14,700,000 (Because it spells a year in the...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/identityPrivacy/2003/05/22.html#a697 |