Thanks to the web, we live under the threat of instant humiliation, so routinely Googling yourself is no longer an act of vanity but one of self-preservation, The Wall Street Journal reports. For job seekers — whose online footprint will be read by potential employers — seeing what has been said about you is a good idea. “You need to keep track,” says one expert.

Thanks to the web, we live under the threat of instant humiliation, so routinely Googling yourself is no longer an act of vanity but one of self-preservation, The Wall Street Journal reports. For job seekers — whose online footprint will be read by potential employers — seeing what has been said about you is a good idea. “You need to keep track,” says one expert.