This Yahoo News story caught our attention at ReputationDefender today. It details one aspect of John McCain’s quest to find a Vice President in the digital age. Quoting from the page:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain joked on Monday that Google, the popular Internet search engine, had made investigating his list of potential candidates a little bit easier.

“You know, basically it’s a Google,” he said to laughter at a fund-raising luncheon when asked how the selection process was going. “What you can find out now on the Internet — it’s remarkable.”

So it seems even aspiring politicians can benefit from controlling their Online Reputation and engaging in a little personal PR. The question then becomes, is it better to be web dead than well profiled; a clean slate or a well-managed professional? Either way, one’s Internet Reputation can have consequences in the real world.

Incidentally, we are a non-partisan blog, but this story reminded us of another prominent Republican who enjoyed using the Google.

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