Exactly, this person is clearly terrible at their job. Here's my own anecdote: There's a person living in my country that has exactly the same name and surname as me, and the same degree. I don't know how this happened, as my name/surname combo is fairly unusual. When further details are not present (ie family names, tax identification etc), which is the usual case for google, you can't tell if a document talks about me or him.

I dread the day that something negative pops up about him in the first pages of Google.

Then all the self-righteous and arrogant interviewers, distant family and potential friends or lovers, they'll all think that "they got me" by searching my name on Google. They all think they're right with little proof for it. And the worst part is, that just like the guy in the article, they won't tell you. They're silently wrong, thinking they're right. That kind of attitude really pisses me off.