Quoting BOAC:
Chuch - as 'Avt' says - it is life on the internet! Google merely SEARCHES that for your details which are already there.
So true. I find my name appearing in Gurgle from all sorts of past associations - like minutes of meetings I've attended, past offices held in sporting organisations, occasional articles I've authored for a club magazine long before the internet was really in existence, and other stuff like this. Some of this information is hopelessly out of date, but it's still there.
If you were to Google my amateur radio callsign, the listing would run for many pages, because any activity there is reported almost immediately on numerous sites set up exactly for that purpose.
Fact is that once the third party makes the information with one's name in it available on the web it's really in the public domain, the web crawlers will find it in time, and for the most part there's nothing one can really do to change this.
The internet is a veritable mine of information and we have very little control over it's capability to make discoveries about us, and then to share them with anyone who knows enough about us (just the name) to make the inquiry. Your address and phone number can be found with the greatest of ease - at least here in Oz - and quite a large amount of one's personal information may be available much more easily than we perhaps imagined.
Of course, then there's Farcebook, but that is another matter altogether....
Regards,
F_O_R