Herman Tumurcuoglu

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Herman Tumurcuoglu (born October 30, 1972 in Montreal, Quebec) is an online reputation management expert, internet pioneer and lecturer. [1]

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He is the co-founder of Searchreputation.net, a boutique ORM agency. [2] In 1996, he launched one of the web's first tier 2 metasearch engine called Mamma.com. [3] [4] This engine was made as a Master’s thesis at Carleton University in 1995. [5] Majority interest in the company was acquired for $25 Million in 1999. Herman sold the rest of his shares in 2001. [6] He has been lecturing at McGill University and Concordia’s John Molson School of Business. [7] His interests are in the areas of Reverse SEO and online reputation management. [8]

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