Riya Facial Recognition Software

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. […]

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Web Search Allows Average Citizens to Play ‘Spy vs. Spy’

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 […]

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People Who Are ‘UnGoogleable’… For Now

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 […]

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Ambient Findability – Learn It and Use It!

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 […]

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