Like Elephants, Search Engines Never Forget

Editor's note: Hunter Walk was most recently Director of Product Management at YouTube. Search engines have long memories. I think about this whenever reading new coverage of some immoral, misanthropic or illegal act. The kids who tweeted racist statements about Obama on Election Day, the college student whose secret videotaping of his gay roommate helped lead to the young man's suicide, the catfishing of Manti T'eo. Years from now it's possible, even likely, that when the perpetrators' names ar...