Q. I'm looking for the official Google people person search finder page at Google? Not looking for the disaster search pages set up by Google, or fake Google spam sites, thanks.
Also if you post spam I'll remove it and flag your account.
Also if you post spam I'll remove it and flag your account.
A. Google has people finders for major natural disasters, like the recent Japan earthquake one found at http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en . Even so, Google does not have an official people finder service... yet. A list of all Google services can be found at http://www.google.com/intl/en/options , and as you can see, there is no people finder.
BUT, there are some cool people-finding features built into the Google Web Search. I think #2B is the best of the tips below.
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Here are some tips to Google-ing people:
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1. Take the personâs full name, enter into a google search box - i.e âMissing L. Personsâ - (donât forget to use quotation marks around the personâs name, otherwise non-relevant results may be generated). If the search results donât yield any promising hits, re-run the search without using the middle initial. This works well for relatively uncommon last names. For finding people with very common names, using a middle initial is rather essential and will give best results.
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2A. Use the google phone number search option - This powerful feature has three main components:
Residential Phone Listings - example: rphonebook:2125551212 (directly into the search box, residential listings only)
Business Phone Listings - example: bphonebook:2125551212 (business listings only)
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2B. You can also search using the person or business name in place of the number: ârphonebook:johnson alexâ. Location and/or occupation delimiters can also be used like this: âphonebook:johnson alex miami esq.â
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Roughly 65% of the time, you can expect that the correct current name and address will be found using this technique. A very cool feature of this search is that a link to Google Maps will be displayed alongside the number! For a different view, also try Google Earth (requires software install).
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3. To confirm that an address is deliverable, head over to USPS and verify it.
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It is free to search this way because the data that is returned when you google people has actually been compiled, stored, and assembled for retrieval by the Google web server and related search systems, so the results are considered public records and no fee is necessary. If you look closely though, there are strong indications that Google has partnered with a select few leaders in the people search market to provide the very best search results for their users.
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Using Google to find people has become rather generic amongst hard core people finders and amateur genealogists. Combining the outstanding data-mining features available on Google with cutting edge personal identifier data like someoneâs social security number or last known address can yield very effective search results for almost anyone in the U.S.
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One interesting observation I came across claimed that when people use an online search engine like google, internet web traffic stats for 2008 state that over 80% are looking for phone information in addition to people finder data. (A reverse person lookup service alternate to Google that is pretty neat is Spock). Hotmail people search, MSN people search, and cell number searches comprised the next largest category, followed by business, background, and address searches using white or pages. UK news services also report that criminal records inquiries top people locator searches by a slim margin.
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Here are some good people-search engines:
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Pipl Search
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These guys provide probably the most comprehensive search of any of the new wave people search engines. They mine snippets of data from from every corner of the web and other search engines too like Zabasearch, Intelius, Facebook and Zoominfo to present a wide variety of search options like email lookup, phone search, address lookup, etc.
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Zabasearch
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Zabasearch has been around long enough to build up a very loyal base of people lookup for a real free people finder option. They give up the basic street address on a free people search and phone number lookup if available. Other services like background check are optional and additional. A very nice and clean interface overall.
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LinkedIn.com Search
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LinkedIn.com is pretty interesting. They began as a basic directory for business professionals wishing to network and have expanded into a service that offers much, much more. They claim that over 40 million people are currently on the LinkedIn.com people search directory.
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I hope this helped, and I think the "phonebook: person's name" feature is what you were looking for. Good luck!
BUT, there are some cool people-finding features built into the Google Web Search. I think #2B is the best of the tips below.
---
---
Here are some tips to Google-ing people:
---
1. Take the personâs full name, enter into a google search box - i.e âMissing L. Personsâ - (donât forget to use quotation marks around the personâs name, otherwise non-relevant results may be generated). If the search results donât yield any promising hits, re-run the search without using the middle initial. This works well for relatively uncommon last names. For finding people with very common names, using a middle initial is rather essential and will give best results.
---
2A. Use the google phone number search option - This powerful feature has three main components:
Residential Phone Listings - example: rphonebook:2125551212 (directly into the search box, residential listings only)
Business Phone Listings - example: bphonebook:2125551212 (business listings only)
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2B. You can also search using the person or business name in place of the number: ârphonebook:johnson alexâ. Location and/or occupation delimiters can also be used like this: âphonebook:johnson alex miami esq.â
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Roughly 65% of the time, you can expect that the correct current name and address will be found using this technique. A very cool feature of this search is that a link to Google Maps will be displayed alongside the number! For a different view, also try Google Earth (requires software install).
---
3. To confirm that an address is deliverable, head over to USPS and verify it.
---
It is free to search this way because the data that is returned when you google people has actually been compiled, stored, and assembled for retrieval by the Google web server and related search systems, so the results are considered public records and no fee is necessary. If you look closely though, there are strong indications that Google has partnered with a select few leaders in the people search market to provide the very best search results for their users.
---
Using Google to find people has become rather generic amongst hard core people finders and amateur genealogists. Combining the outstanding data-mining features available on Google with cutting edge personal identifier data like someoneâs social security number or last known address can yield very effective search results for almost anyone in the U.S.
---
One interesting observation I came across claimed that when people use an online search engine like google, internet web traffic stats for 2008 state that over 80% are looking for phone information in addition to people finder data. (A reverse person lookup service alternate to Google that is pretty neat is Spock). Hotmail people search, MSN people search, and cell number searches comprised the next largest category, followed by business, background, and address searches using white or pages. UK news services also report that criminal records inquiries top people locator searches by a slim margin.
---
---
Here are some good people-search engines:
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Pipl Search
---
These guys provide probably the most comprehensive search of any of the new wave people search engines. They mine snippets of data from from every corner of the web and other search engines too like Zabasearch, Intelius, Facebook and Zoominfo to present a wide variety of search options like email lookup, phone search, address lookup, etc.
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Zabasearch
---
Zabasearch has been around long enough to build up a very loyal base of people lookup for a real free people finder option. They give up the basic street address on a free people search and phone number lookup if available. Other services like background check are optional and additional. A very nice and clean interface overall.
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LinkedIn.com Search
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LinkedIn.com is pretty interesting. They began as a basic directory for business professionals wishing to network and have expanded into a service that offers much, much more. They claim that over 40 million people are currently on the LinkedIn.com people search directory.
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I hope this helped, and I think the "phonebook: person's name" feature is what you were looking for. Good luck!
What is the best thing to search for on google map street view?
Q. Im really bored and i wanna find some awesome or random viewing points on google maps when you look at it from street view. Can anyone help me out?
A. Auckland
Toronto International Airport
Paris.
Geneva, Switzerland.
Montreal
Oslo, Norway.
Toronto International Airport
Paris.
Geneva, Switzerland.
Montreal
Oslo, Norway.
How does Google images determine if a picture is for adults?
Q. In google images, you can adjust the filter to display different levels offensive imagery (i.e. nudity, profanity, etc), but with the millions maybe billions of images online, how is it managed? Is there a google department in charge of surfing the internet to flag images? Or is it simply an algorithm of some sort?
If you're just going to guess, how about you just don't answer!
If you're just going to guess, how about you just don't answer!
A. Google does have a user powered program that gets people to 'tag' random images for fun in their spare time. The more times an image is tagged with related keywords, the more confident Google can be that the image is what people are saying it is, and eventually those tags will be used to find that picture in the search results.
This is not the only way Google does it though. They do have computer algorithms that analyze and sort images very efficiently (it's the only way possible, even a team of hundreds of users could never tag every image out there).
Google Images also has an option to search for images with faces. I believe this uses the same algorithm used in Google Street View to identify and blur faces. Some people comment on the fact that it's pretty good at picking up faces even when they are not real, in one case the logo for KFC was blurred.
The algorithm for safe filtering is not perfect though... there are still things that can get through, especially if you use unusual search terms. I am studying Computer Science at University and in my opinion, the safe search option is done using a combination of algorithms and human intervention to help remove offending content that was not caught by the system automatically (as I noted earlier, this can only be done for a limited number of popular search terms though, so not everything gets filtered).
The algorithm most likely uses one of two methods (or both):
A) Identify the image as safe or not by determining whether the webpage it is hosted on is 'safe'. This is most likely done by analyzing words on the page in a similar way to how Google indexes pages in the text search. This can't be the only way since I know of websites that have completely unrelated text that don't have their images show up in the 'safe' search.
B) Attempt to identify pornography by either measuring the ratio of skin-tone colours to non skin-tones (i.e. try to determine how much 'skin' is showing) or using object recognition to identify 'offending' areas of the human body such as breasts or genitalia.
I should also mention that there is a report feature users can utilize to report offending images. This also helps filter out much of 'unsafe' images from popular search terms.
This is not the only way Google does it though. They do have computer algorithms that analyze and sort images very efficiently (it's the only way possible, even a team of hundreds of users could never tag every image out there).
Google Images also has an option to search for images with faces. I believe this uses the same algorithm used in Google Street View to identify and blur faces. Some people comment on the fact that it's pretty good at picking up faces even when they are not real, in one case the logo for KFC was blurred.
The algorithm for safe filtering is not perfect though... there are still things that can get through, especially if you use unusual search terms. I am studying Computer Science at University and in my opinion, the safe search option is done using a combination of algorithms and human intervention to help remove offending content that was not caught by the system automatically (as I noted earlier, this can only be done for a limited number of popular search terms though, so not everything gets filtered).
The algorithm most likely uses one of two methods (or both):
A) Identify the image as safe or not by determining whether the webpage it is hosted on is 'safe'. This is most likely done by analyzing words on the page in a similar way to how Google indexes pages in the text search. This can't be the only way since I know of websites that have completely unrelated text that don't have their images show up in the 'safe' search.
B) Attempt to identify pornography by either measuring the ratio of skin-tone colours to non skin-tones (i.e. try to determine how much 'skin' is showing) or using object recognition to identify 'offending' areas of the human body such as breasts or genitalia.
I should also mention that there is a report feature users can utilize to report offending images. This also helps filter out much of 'unsafe' images from popular search terms.
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