When I wrote about claimID a couple of weeks ago, Terrell Russell from claimID left a comment:

I hope claimID serves you well. Keep linking to yours and we’re betting it will.

Search for my name on Google today and my claimID page is result #3. Other links that I included in my claimID page and that mention my name have risen aswell. Good work (despite the fact that result #4 is my Bebo account, where you are more likely to find tumbleweed than anything about me)!

I don’t know if it is actually important for my life yet. But at least this seems to show that claimID can give you a degree of control over what the search engines say about you.