Maybe it got lost in my long winded reply.

If it's on a web site, the search engines will pick it up. I'm not sure how far into a page they go, but Kitty's name and address are on a site as editor of a newsletter.

The reason I show up so many places is that I used to run a Fidonet Hub for two groups, (the 80s) and my own multi-line BB. Then I went to Prodigy (the 90s) and worked in various positions. Meanwhile I had about 10 web pages with my name as author...

The reason my business is on sites is that someone else published supplies of tools on a directory, not because I did it.

For the same reasons we might love the web for research, we might also find it invasive. I'm not disagreeing with the facts that Kitty has presented, just pointing out that the source is likely to be our own disclosure, not someone prying into private information and publishing it.