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16 Aug

My Favorite Private Investigator Links

Mostly free websites for fact finding and online research for private investigators, genealogists, info pros, attorneys, journalists and the public. NY Databases | searchable and sortable databases Newspaper Map Minority Business Development Agency Real-Time Social Media News Events CSRTG Aircraft...
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16 Aug

Private Company Assets in SEC Filings

Are you searching the Securities and Exchange Commission filings for names of officers in private companies that sell securities? Search by name for officers and directors in businesses incorporated in states but not publicly traded — including the often obscured...
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Business Leave a comment

27 Jul

New York Parolee Search

Not all government sites are created equal. How do you interpret the discrepancy between the New York Department of Corrections Inmate Information lookup and the New York Department of Corrections Parolee Search? The result from a name search on the...
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2 Jun

LinkedIn and Fake Degrees

From the BRB Publications newsletter, by Michael Sankey: Have you ever used the Advanced Search feature on Linked to spot people touting a fake degree from a diploma mill? If not, this is how to do so: After you log-in,...
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Social Networks Education, Linkedin Leave a comment

31 May

Google AROUND Operator

[9/1/2016 UPDATE: A better search engine for proximity searches may be Yandex. See: http://booleanstrings.com/2016/08/28/who-offers-proximity-search/] I hadn’t seen anything written in the past few years on the undocumented (not in the “official” list) Google “AROUND” operator, which enables the searcher to...
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Research Methods, Search Engines "search operators", Google, Yandex Leave a comment

27 May

My Favorite Private Investigator Links

Mostly free websites for fact finding and online research for private investigators, genealogists, info pros, attorneys, journalists and the public. Seven more Facebook ‘secrets’ for journalists to have at their finger-tips Verification Handbook for Investigative Reporting-A Guide to Online Search...
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7 Dec

Facebook Keyword Search

Facebook keyword search by URL ID numbers to return targeted profiles that can’t be searched though the search bar. One of the blog posts in Five Sourcing Tips I Learned From Others that sourcer/recruiter Irina Shamaeva recommends is The Facebook...
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Research Methods, Social Networks Leave a comment

18 Nov

Social Network Aggregators

Finding people on social networks and their other Internet footprints is part technical knowledge, but moreso it demands creative intelligence, because the Internet is not a structured library catalog. It’s also a time sucker, right? And some tedium. Like opening...
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18 Aug

Background People Using Yelp

Yelp isn’t just a tool for finding a local restaurant. At least not in the hands of a private investigator. How do you background people using Yelp? Find their friends. Identify a user name that can be searched at Google...
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16 Aug

How Do I Search Craigslist?

Search Craigslist by phone number or any partial number, even if the number isn’t displayed within the posting. Select “show contact info” to see the hidden number. Words — including partial names, addresses or numbers — that are in...
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Research Methods, Search Engines 4 Comments

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