{"id":50,"date":"2005-11-23T21:26:56","date_gmt":"2005-11-24T02:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/people-search-tips\/google-search-tip-domain-specific-people-searches\/"},"modified":"2016-06-22T06:19:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T11:19:49","slug":"google-search-tip-domain-specific-people-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/people-search-tips\/google-search-tip-domain-specific-people-searches\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search Tip &#8211; Domain Specific People Searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has numerous specialized search features.\u00a0 A good one for people searches is a domain specific search.\u00a0 By adding <strong>site:anysiteaddress.com<\/strong> to your search string, you can narrow your results to a given domain.\u00a0 You can even widen your search to specific top-level domains like .com, .gov, . edu, .mil etc.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, students, alumni, faculty and staff for major universities will often be mentioned, along with contact information, on\u00a0 university web sites.\u00a0 Say you know the name of a student, alumni or staff member at Berkeley, you could do a person search like <strong>John Doe site:berkeley.edu<\/strong> or a more specific string search like <strong>&#8220;John Doe&#8221; site:berkeley.edu <\/strong>[ make sure to include a space between your last search term and site:anysiteaddress.com ].<\/p>\n<p>Say you want to find a current or former member or civilian employee of the US military and you want to see if they are mentioned on any of the military sites &#8211; you could do a search like <strong>John Doe site:navy.mil<\/strong>, if you know the person is affiliated with the US Navy.\u00a0 You could also do a general top-level domain people search like <strong>John Doe site:mil<\/strong>, if you are unsure of the branch the person belongs too and want to search all of the .mil sites.<\/p>\n<p>The same people search techniques work for private business [ .com ] or non profit [ .org ] employees.\u00a0 Try a Google people search like <strong>Bill Gates site:microsoft.com<\/strong> and you get the idea of how you can use this to find less public figures.\u00a0 In addition, don&#8217;t forget the basics of people searching &#8211; there is a difference between a general people search for <strong>Bill Gates<\/strong> and a specific, exact string search like <strong>&#8220;Bill Gates&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has numerous specialized search features.\u00a0 A good one for people searches is a domain specific search.\u00a0 By adding site:anysiteaddress.com to your search string, you can narrow your results to a given domain.\u00a0 You can even widen your search to specific top-level domains like .com, .gov, . edu, .mil etc. For instance, students, alumni, faculty [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/people-search-tips\/google-search-tip-domain-specific-people-searches\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Google Search Tip &#8211; Domain Specific People Searches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-search-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6682,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/6682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}