You may have never heard the term Web reputation, but you may have one. It's difficult to place public information on the Web and keep it secret. Search engines crawl the Web, capture what they can ...

Google's foray into reputation management is only beginning, experts say. June 17, 2011— -- Michael Fertik, CEO of Repuation.com, said he was excited to find more than 100 emails in his inbox ...

This week in Security Levity, I want to talk about ‘Web reputation’ and how it’s used to protect users from malicious Web sites, or sites with malicious content for some other reason. Just as with ...

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a SCREAMING post on Ripoff Report, Yelp, or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites ...

Protecting users from sites containing malicious content is a thankless task. The size of today’s Web makes it incredibly difficult. Find out why, and what we can do about it, in The Long View… These ...

Virus writers and botmasters increasingly are turning to new subscription services that test when and whether malicious links have been flagged by Web reputation programs like Google Safe Browsing and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover entrepreneurs, focusing on global and social entrepreneurship. When Megan Maloney lost her job at a Detroit auto supplier ...

If you don't actively control your narrative, algorithms will do it for you — and the cost could be lost clients, stalled investments and missed opportunities.

A new Web site aims to help determine whether a specific computer has been sending legitimate e-mail or spam. The TrustedSource Web site uses data from reputation filters, which are billed as the next ...

After last week’s “Does SEO = Spam” debate erupted, I had a number of follow-up emails where I explained privately more about why SEO has such a bad reputation in some quarters, as well as what SEO is ...

The first postings appeared soon after Sue Scheff, who runs a Web-based referral service for parents with troubled teenagers, advised a woman from Louisiana to withdraw her twin sons from a boarding ...

As the Internet and social networking have evolved, many people are concerned about what search engines and tools churn up when people search for their names or other information online. If you’re ...