This article on Squidoo - "How to Remove Your Personal Information from Google and Internet" (sic) is pretty good, even if it leaves all the work to you.
We'll provide links to companies that offer to do this for you as well, plus monitoring services.
Speaking of which, Rapleaf offers a simple tool to see what info is available in the public domain simply based upon your email address. You have to set up an "account" to do this, and if you are in the habit of using email aliases when you register for services, this won't work so well for you.
I use email aliases every time I shop. Gmail's approach is pretty simple - just add "+aliasname" between your gmail name and the @gmail.com part of your address. For example "smartguy+goingamish@gmail.com" Gmail ignores the +aliasname part of the address but you can use this for filtering spam or figuring out who has sold your email address to spammers. A more elaborate way is to own your own domain name and set up aliases that way. Zoneedit.com, a free nameserver service provider, includes a very simple MailForward feature to enable this.
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