If you have a web presence of your own and run analytics software, it's probably easy to check if your doctor googled you. In fact, several times I've met with people who told me "I saw your site on the web before!" when I already know that they googled me last night and viewed three pages on my website. It's tempting to follow up with, "how do you like your Android tablet with 1920x1080 resolution running the Opera browser?"

One of my worst clients told me at our first meeting that he had viewed every single page on every website I ran, and he had this habit of starting off subsequent meetings by saying, "I reviewed every single page of the development site," etc. when the logs showed in each case that he had viewed at most three or four pages. It appeared that he was using every possible tactic to absolutely dominate any discussion or potential negotiation. I finally called his previous vendor and determined after a short discussion that the guy was a big liar, and helped him find a new vendor shortly thereafter.