Google search engine has an interesting little provision that attempt to read her mind, it is called “auto suggest”, if someone begins to type a word, for example “Schlumberger”, then Google provides several suggestions as to what that person might be searching for. Unfortunately for Schlumberger, at the top of the list is “Schlumberger Layoffs”. Naturally, if someone looking into the company was not aware of the layoff issue, there would be none the wiser. But thanks to Google, and unnatural emphasis can be given to embarrassing situations.
There are not many things, even a huge organization like Schlumberger, can do to control such a crisis outbreak. There is very limited professional help available, although the engineers at page1.me have developed a solution that ethically suppresses on several search results. I have embedded the query form below, feel free to try it out and see how it works:
Simply enter the search phrases that display unfavorable results in Google Search and choose your country: