People Search Public Records

Go to the Google directory, and enter the term “people search”. Then look at what Google gives back.

You’ll get twenty-five links to, among others Yahoo! People Search, ZabaSearch, Lycos People Search, USA People Search. But you won’t find a people search option from Google.

Why?

Because Google has its own way of doing things. Instead of having a single page in which you can enter the name and location of the person you are tracking, Google offers you several different approaches.

If you want, before starting a paid background check, to wring from Google as much free personal information as possible, here are few tips to get you started:

You can juggle the information you do have; a person’s first name or initial and last name, city or zip code, if you know it, and suspected state, or area code and/or phone number, in the following combinations, within the Google search box:

First name or initial, last name, state

First name or initial, last name, area code

First name or initial, last name, zip code

Phone number, including area code

Last name, city, state

Last name, zip code

Using the initial will get you a list of all the people whose names begin with that letter, so you’ll then, to find the one most likely to be the subject of your search, have to sort through them.

To really make progress, you’ll need a first and last name. Middle initials are nice, but unless you have some idea of the person’s location, or an E-mail address, Yahoo, MSN, or Google groups nickname, or perhaps a forum where the person is active, you’ll get nowhere. Your needle will remain lost within the billions of straws which make up the Internet haystack.

Internet users are apt to have both multiple E-mails and online aliases, and use different ones for their different activities. The more of these you can collect, the greater the store of online information you will be able, by performing a Google people search, to uncover.

To maximize your Google people search efforts, learn to use the Google operators. The ones most useful for collecting information are the inurl:forum, and inurl:profile operators. Enter the person’s name, in quotes, in the search box, followed by the operator.

The inurl:forum and inurl:profile operators will take you to all the sites where the person has signed up and posted; you maybe able to get more information from their profile and posts.

But the results you get from doing an operator-based Google people search will not provide the detailed information available from a paid background search. Criminal records, for instance, will require offsite research.

And anytime you are making decisions based on information you find online, you need to consider the sources. You may find someone’s find phone number and address, but whatever you uncover in forums and blogs may, for your purposes, need verification.

A Google people search may be useful in getting you some pieces of personal information, but the results will be incomplete. As in all things, you get what you pay for.

Author: Matt Garrett ? 2007 http://www.EasyPeopleSearch.com

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