It's common to connect the notion an organization is entitled and
equipped to collect, contain, aggregate and custom-produce upon demand
with the major credit scoring bureaus/agenies.
However, with
recent public announcements surrounding the insurance community looking
to buy into aggregated social media data, it should not be a far nor
wide jump straight into a conversation (and subsequently this blog)
regarding one element of the legacy portion of someone's
"creditworthiness."
Because one does not need to have formal
credentials to analyze and discern someone's credibility in a variety of
settings, SEO specialists thrive on the sales-driven end-game of
sinking "negative" content in the search engines, typically referred to
as Reputation Management, regardless of the truth and/or consequences of
such controlled movement of content through at least the major search
engines.
The smoke and mirrors surrounding this off-shoot of
Search Engine Optimization (Reputation Management Services) relies on
the premise that a consumer will be willing to pay a certain dollar
amount to have content fall in the ranks of the most public of venues,
such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and Bing as the most convenient and familiar
examples.
The legal complexities associated with many of these
services is that the content does not actually disappear from the search
engines, nor does it lose it's already-established credit and
credibility with multiple entities above and beyond the search engine
caches. It simply is more difficult to locate the data in a manual form
and format.
For example, RMS services cannot necessarily
blockade all Google Alerts from going out, and if an aggregation service
picks up an intentionally sunken feed, voila! The content becomes yet
another refresher course on just how almost insane these products and
services become simply because the weight and measure of the aggregation
system beats out all other sites and the content ends up ranking
#1...perhaps again, and again, and again.
The identities
contained herewithin are all classified as public figures,
demonstratable through the volume of news media crafted content,
combined with a variety of other materials, including but not limited to
legal documents, personal opinions, registration and/or licensing data,
etc. all located using the Google search engine as the results
provider.
Although it is far beyond my own skill-set and scope of
understanding, there was enough fluff and stuff surrounding what little
content is contained herewith to ponder whether or not the ranking
separations were/are intentional sculpted for pay vs. organic
competition with the string derivatives marketplace vs. anything other
than the first two suggestions.
My own motives grow from a
decision tree I personally followed a while back when it came to
President Bush, Jr.'s track record with the organizations he was
involved with, such as the Texas Rangers.
If simple tally count
counts, hero as Hochstadt may come across with the Wall Street/Merrill
Lynch legal issue, but with questions surrounding the merits of his
arguments combined with multiple other failures to lay blame at the feet
of anyone but himself for some form of business failure, including but
not limited to issues with Young Industries, Inc., Hochstadt has had
more courtroom-decided failures under his legacy belt than Bush does...
...and
I still remain curious from time to time if one could find a way to sue
a sitting President into testifying...such as with the Blagojevich
trial process originally hinted at such a decision tree having been
contemplated by multiple individuals, but nothing ever came to fruition.
Without
any further details available other than these types of public records,
it will remain curious as to how Hochstadt continues to sustain any
real measure of credibility as an individual who can lead anyone through
a multi-million dollar real estate project to its completion with any
measure of success, especially when there remains no clear details
surrounding his $60 million + bankruptcy claim surrounding ABA Hail
Restoration, a company sued by the State of Illinois for consumer fraud
as a part of a State Farm investigation.
This site is dedicated
to manually searching for any and all threads of continuity that can
provide further insight into a man who has listed in legal documents so
many different variations of his name, it makes it curious which name is
actually listed on his drivers license, let alone his birth
certificate.
