ClaimID is a service that lets you manage your online identity.
Imagine that you are applying for a job. You know that your prospective employer is going to search for your name online, and since you’re a rational person, that worries you. How will your employer know what online stuff is actually about you, and not about that other person who shares your name? And what if the good stuff about you online doesn’t mention your full name, or uses a name you no longer go by (such as a maiden name)? How would your prospective employer ever find it? Why do you have to lose out in the eyes of that employer? And the worst part is there’s no way for you to easily influence what search engines say about you.
Enter claimID. ClaimID is a service that lets you claim the information that is about you online. That information is then associated with your name, providing folks an easy way to see what is and isn’t about you online. In doing so, you get to influence the search engines, and provide people more relevant information when they search for you. It’s time to reclaim some power back from the search engines. ClaimID is about letting you have some say in what search engines say about you.
We believe that search engines have been having the final say about our identities for too long (have you looked yourself up in a search engine lately?). ClaimID lets you classify, annotate, prioritize and share the information that is about you, so that people who search for you are able to see the identity you want to present. It’s a really simple idea, and we’ve worked hard to build a system that is incredibly easy to use, so that just about everyone can benefit from claimID.
ClaimID was created by two doctoral students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science. We were inspired to help people concerned about what search engines said about them. Our goal is to help people be proactive about managing their online identity. Instead of letting the search engines have the final say, we want people to empower themselves by claiming their identity
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