To google or not to google

I heard a program on NPR the other day talking about interesting and unique names. The most unique, I think, was "Gayman Wong," who is neither a man nor Chinese. Anyway, the host asked several such people what they thought about having a strange name. Did it cause them any problems? Had they ever thought about changing it?

A few of them brought up the fact that they can easily be found on google, which they saw as a good thing.

But is it? Thomas Friedman (via Matthew Yglesias), writes about the fact that young people today--is there any way to type that phrase without feeling old?--will not have the luxury of hiding the young and stupid things they did when they were young and stupid (to paraphrase George Bush):

More and more of what you say or do or write will end up as a digital fingerprint that never gets erased. Our generation got to screw up and none of those screw-ups appeared on our first job résumés, which we got to write. For this generation, much of what they say, do or write will be preserved online forever. Before employers even read their résumés, they’ll Google them.

So, when it comes time to pick my kids' names (not for a while of course) - is it better to proclaim individuality or seek internet anonymity?