Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
Andrea, I know personally how frustrating this can be. I&#x27;ve dealt with something similar with a relative&#x27;s Knowledge Panel, and dealt with this over and over with multiple people who&#x27;ve asked me to help them fix and update their Knowledge Panel.<p>The first thing that needs to be done is that YOU need to claim the KP. It appears that it&#x27;s not claimed right now, and you can have control over what appears there (and suggest edits&#x2F;changes&#x2F;updates). If you haven&#x27;t claimed the KP, then you can just leave feedback that seems to just go into a &quot;black hole&quot; and it&#x27;s never addressed.<p>I know there are ways legally to deal with this, but the best way to deal with it is to claim the Knowledge Panel.<p>Then, there are ways to increase the knowledge that is in the Knowledge Graph so that the information there is not confusing--they&#x27;re reaching for a photo, for example, and there are ways to overcome that. For example, you can use other photos (even they&#x27;re not photos of yourself) to get them to populate on the KG and of someone else.<p>The issue here is the Knowledge Graph doesn&#x27;t have enough information about you, so it&#x27;s just taking the next most &quot;prominent&quot; data that it has. You can help define the information in the Knowledge Graph by feeding it information. You don&#x27;t need to be &quot;fighting&quot; the KG, you should be doing quite the opposite: give it the right information so it&#x27;s correct.<p>The Knowledge Graph is not all controlled by Google--other search engines use it, such as Bing. The issue appears to be with Google&#x27;s Knowledge Panel, but the issue is actually with the Knowledge Graph itself, and not Google.<p>The Knowledge Graph is made up of sources (see the list here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kalicube.pro&#x2F;trusted-sources" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kalicube.pro&#x2F;trusted-sources</a>) and by working on your own KG entry and feeding it more information, you&#x27;ll be strengthening your own KG entry for your name, and all these issues with confusion and the wrong information being displayed will go away.<p>There&#x27;s really no need to do anything legally around this, it&#x27;s just a case that the KG doesn&#x27;t have enough information about to make the right decisions on what to display. I don&#x27;t see the FTC, BBB or IC3 helping in any way. Fastest way to correct this is to feed the KG the right information.