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Whaddyareckon?: Scary Google finds

In this week's Whaddyareckon?, we asked for unnerving Google tales. Then we encountered a particular interviewee, and things turned genuinely scary.

Have you ever Googled yourself? Oh stop it, sure you have. But what did you find?

Whether it's porn stars with your exact name, your high school exam results or embarrassing online confessions from 1998, the discoveries you make when Googling yourself can be frightening.

Then there's the old Google-as-background-checker trick, where you might stumble upon unsavoury data about your nearest and dearest.

In this week's Whaddyareckon?, we asked for unnerving Google tales. Then we encountered a particular interviewee, and things turned from silly to genuinely scary. Watch the video to see for yourself.

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