An interesting thread at Google Web Search Help started by “anotherDad” tells the story of how a father was shocked to see a pornographic site come up in the Google search results for a search for his daughter’s name. He said:

What this father quickly learned was that this site that was showing up had a cached page that contained the honor roll of his daughter’s class. That cache page contained his daughter’s name on it. What was likely happening was that either the URL was taken over by a spammer and Google has not updated their index yet or the page is being cloaked, in a very bad way.

I love this post because it shows how a normal searcher was shocked by this. Let me share his thoughts, after learning a bit on how Google operates.

He then added his two cents for Google:

This searcher is exactly the type of person Google takes seriously and it is always interesting to read posts by them. Especially when it is so close to home and so important to them.

In the end, Google was wrong – his daughter is not a porn star and the father can somewhat rest a bit easier at night.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Update: JohnMu from Google commented below stating there is a special form for this at Google.