Riya is a maker of facial recognition software that allows users to tag and search for people by name in digital images and pictures on a personal computer or on the web. The software is still in its testing phase, but rumors are the search engine giant Google is already interested in buying the company. […]
We have discussed the best way to reverse lookup an email address in the past. One of the best ways to reverse an email address is to enter it into one of the major search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN. There are a number of ways to do this: – You can enter the […]
This informative article in the Sydney Morning Herald discusses in depth how everyday citizens are using web searches from Google to Mamma to do background checks and ‘spy’ on one another. Instead of George Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’, we now have a multitude of wired ‘Little Brothers’… but who are we to complain, modern search technologies […]
Read More… from Web Search Allows Average Citizens to Play ‘Spy vs. Spy’
Here is an interesting article from Wired Magazine about people who manage to keep their online personal data trails short or non-existant and are able to avoid being found on Google searches. From the article – Geri Agalia doesn’t appear to leave less of a data trail than most Americans. She has a phone in […]
Ambient Findability is a forward-looking ( or, rather, forward-finding ) new book by Peter Morville that should be required reading for all skip tracers, private investigators and internet research professionals. The book discusses the theory and practice of how people find the information they are seeking in an era of information overload and how they […]