It's not Google or FB, it's all that permanent record stored on servers throughout the world.
If Google wasn't the search engine there would be some other search engine to find it.
Changing identity isn't a solution either since I suspect it would eventually be easy to connect new ID with old ID.
I was contacted a few years ago by a young woman who was the bass player in a local band. I had made mention of her a few months earlier as “This really hot bass player for _____ who is playing in New Haven”
She then applied for an interview, and her interviewer did an internet search on her: Asking her to defend their google results of her name. She contacted me with several questions, posed by her:
“How do you know me?”
“What do you mean by what you said?”
And I immediately became very interested. She had actually lost the job because of similar comments, and photos of her giving the devil sign at some shows and appearances.
A name change won’t work. I’m thinking of changing my own name (Legally) when it comes time for me to move (We’ll see how November turns out)
” If Google wasn’t the search engine there would be some other search engine to find it.”
You mean in some rogue country like China or Russia? Because the Western world will eventually HAVE to do it. Google, FB and the likes are the only ones to be able to do it for now, since it takes some effort. A wikileaks type can’t do it, it takes years to gather and keep that info.