Google Searches of our Names

Brock_and_Roll

Obviously anyone who wants to check for insolvency data can always go direct to the Gazette.

In terms of search engines, Google have been pretty professional in at least setting out their policy but this is less the case for other search engines.

I did an experiment looking at results from other search engines to look up people's insolvencies - sometimes the top result links direct to the relevant page on the Gazette.

Of course certain foreign based search engines don't need to worry about uk data protection rules.


At the end of the day however, if I want to check if a client/employee has ever been bankrupt, I will always go direct to the Gazette. Googling, Facebooking etc is done to dig out other information which may be of use.

Brock_and_Roll

Obviously anyone who wants to check for insolvency data can always go direct to the Gazette.

In terms of search engines, Google have been pretty professional in at least setting out their policy but this is less the case for other search engines.

I did an experiment looking at results from other search engines to look up people's insolvencies - sometimes the top result links direct to the relevant page on the Gazette.

Of course certain foreign based search engines don't need to worry about uk data protection rules.

At the end of the day however, if I want to check if a client/employee has ever been bankrupt, I will always go direct to the Gazette. Googling, Facebooking etc is done to dig out other information which may be of use - insolvency result on google would be information that I would discover anyway

Seesaw_Life

Djem6 wrote: »

Does anyone know if the 1 year and 3 month rule applies to all notices , our original bankrupcy notices have gone but the creditors meeting is still showing on goigke 1 year and 2 months after it was put in the gazette . Is iit likely to go in another month or so?

Yes, all notices according to the policy, so if this is important to people, don't ask for a notice of discharge to be listed.

Seesaw_Life

Brock_and_Roll wrote: »

Obviously anyone who wants to check for insolvency data can always go direct to the Gazette.

In terms of search engines, Google have been pretty professional in at least setting out their policy but this is less the case for other search engines.

I did an experiment looking at results from other search engines to look up people's insolvencies - sometimes the top result links direct to the relevant page on the Gazette.

Of course certain foreign based search engines don't need to worry about uk data protection rules.

At the end of the day however, if I want to check if a client/employee has ever been bankrupt, I will always go direct to the Gazette. Googling, Facebooking etc is done to dig out other information which may be of use - insolvency result on google would be information that I would discover anyway

All accurate, thanks. For the sake of others looking, what The Gazette do is place a 'no robots' text in the meta tags of the page with your name on. This diverts the search engine 'spiders' from crawling and listing the page. In simple language, they put a notice on the page that says, 'don't list me'. This is an industry standard and most search engine providers across the world abide by it - certainly all of the big ones.

The Gazette website has an internal search engine which allows anyone to find any notices regardless of age. That means that if someone knows what they are doing and wishes to make that check on you, they can find it easily. I think that is fair enough given that bankruptcy is (and should be) a matter of public record. I also think it is right that a casual search by your next door neighbour or work colleague will not reveal it. So, yes, public domain, but tarring and feathering is a thing of the past.