Online privacy / "reverse SEO"
ApolloRising: If she has a middle name use that on the job applications if her last name is not as unique as her first.Go crazy and add yourself to every social networking profile you can get as one of the links above have said.Call the editors and request the article be removed, if it is old news and nothing really valuable, they may just do it to respect her privacy. I would do this via phone not email so you get to speak to a human being that understands her situation.Buy her a domain name with her name in the url. Use that to rank very highly. Does not need anything more than a pure html template with her name and some random bits of info on it.There is a service called reputation defender or some such name. They specialize in this sorta stuff, not sure how much they charge etc. Just figured I would mention it if it really mattered that much.