There are currently over one billion messages posted and archived on Google Groups.\u00a0 People will very often use all or part of their real names when posting messages in these forums.\u00a0 \u00a0This provides a great\u00a0 opportunity for people searches.<\/p>\n
I recently found posts on these forums from a past college friend by doing some simple searches.\u00a0 You can do a general search for an individual like John Doe<\/strong>, which will search for any mention of the person in any of the messages.\u00a0 To weed down larger results you may want to try “John Doe”<\/strong> in quotation marks to find an exact string match or a search for just Doe<\/strong> or J. Doe<\/strong> for more general searching.<\/p>\n In addition, you can search specifically for authors of posts. For instance, author:John Doe<\/strong> or author:J. Doe<\/strong> or even author:Doe<\/strong> will search for posts where these names appear as an author of the message. Make sure there are no spaces between the colon after author and the beginning of the name you are searching for.\u00a0 Spaces should be left between first and last names in the people search.<\/p>\n You can try your own people searches here at\u00a0 Google Groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are currently over one billion messages posted and archived on Google Groups.\u00a0 People will very often use all or part of their real names when posting messages in these forums.\u00a0 \u00a0This provides a great\u00a0 opportunity for people searches. I recently found posts on these forums from a past college friend by doing some simple […]<\/p>\n