<i>Google used it to identify me before I had even applied anywhere else</i><p>At a point where the author would be in a weak negotiating position because he wouldn&#x27;t have other offers to take (besides staying in his current job, but applying for a new job indicates he wasn&#x27;t <i>entirely</i> happy with that.)<p><i>and they made me feel important while doing so.</i><p>Doing a search that matches a regular expression is all that it takes to make you feel important? Really?