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As for Fairbanks, her name was ultimately removed from the explicit sites, thanks to pressure from her mother and a cooperative user support team at Google. And, as it turned out, porn-star Eve might never have actually existed: her name, Google told her, might have been flagged as a marketing ploy to drive more traffic to the porn sites.   Mom was of course relieved by that news, but Eve, now 24 and a journalist who has written about her "racy Google persona,"  wasn't so sure. "Nobody my age thought it was anything but a tragedy that these porn sites had disappeared" because it was so funny, she says. And maybe she was also a little sad to see her Googlegänger go.

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