According to a recent CNN article, people who search online for phrases like “song lyrics” or “free” are engaging in risky search engine behavior. Along with “free music downloads”, these search terms put 20 percent of search engine users in danger of landing on sites that push malicious software, known as “malware.” A research report […]
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A recent decision by Facebook could make online people searches easier than ever. Facebook announced that, as of this Saturday, they will start publishing URLs ( web addresses ) for user’s profiles, using people’s real names. These new search engine friendly URLs will make finding past friends and family on Facebook through normal search engine […]
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Twitter is a goldmine of two things: people and the topics they are currently talking about. There are numerous services out there that help you mine the Twitter database to find out information on the trending topics on Twitter as well as the people who are tweeting about them, here are a few: Hashtags.org – […]
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The Classmates.com people search is typically used by a person to reunite with former classmates that they have lost contact with, but it has recently reunited a brother and sister that had been separated for over 40 years. Mobile, Alabama pastor Joseph Lett ( age 48 ) used the Classmates people search to find his […]
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Topsy is a new social network search engine that searches conversations from online web 2.0 communities and returns search results based on the timely topical “chatter” that occurs on those communities every minute. Some of the social networks and online communities that Topsy takes its search results from are Twitter, blogs, Flickr, Digg, Yelp, Identica […]
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