The internet (like automation) is a blessing and a curse. On the curse side, sometimes bad things happen to good people. A financial adviser may be named in a splashy lawsuit and then quietly dropped later when it turns out others were to blame ? but the original story pops up on page 1 of a Google search seemingly forever. In the internet age, this kind of bad luck can destroy one’s business reputation (“Reputations can suffer when dings go online,” by Bruce Kelly, InvestmentNews).