Looking to get more information on someone? It is most likely on the Internet, even if that person doesn't know it. You can even see peoples' Amazon wish lists and Netflix requests if you really want to. I don't know if you do.
● Zoominfo: Builds biographies for people from information found on the Web. Useful for: Checking out someone's business ties or history
● Zabasearch: Find out where a person has lived or worked throughout his or her life. You can search with a name or phone number.
● BRB Publications: A public records search engine where you can search by state. Useful for: Vital records, background records, criminal search, etc.
● Whitepages: A phone directory where you can search by name or number. Useful for: Looking up someone's neighbors and calling them to find out more about a story/ person.
● Pipl: Search here to find addresses, business connections, Facebook, MySpace, you name it.
● 123people: More of the same - addresses, business connections, etc.
● Birth dates: Find full birth dates. Useful for: Making sure the same John Smith who was arrested is the same John Smith who ran for mayor last year.
● Birth dates: Find full birth dates. Useful for: Making sure the same John Smith who was arrested is the same John Smith who ran for mayor last year.
- SOCIAL MEDIA SEARCH
● Social Mention: Realtime social media search and analysis. Useful for: Finding video, blogposts, photo, news stories,Twitter and Facebook mentions about anyone - in realtime.
● Whostalkin: Pronounced 'who is talking,' not 'who is stalking.' Useful for: Stalking, er, finding out who is talking about what on social media networks.● Same Point: Social media for businesses
● Ice Rocket: Search Twitter, Facebook., blogs, images and big buzz
● Peek You: Find people and connect with them wherever they are in the deep Web
● National Sex Offender Registry: Where to find sex offenders in the towns you report on or live in. Useful for: Finding out if a sex offender lives next door.
● Resource - County Voter Lists: Will let you see the political side of someone.
● Reporter's Desktop by Duff Wilson of the New York Times: Search for people. Don't know how? This will teach you. Duff takes you through all the necessary steps of finding John Doe.
- SOCIAL MEDIA YOU KNOW AND LOVE
● Facebook: You know how to find people. Useful for: Finding peoples' friends to see if they will talk to you. Need someone's real name but that person identifies himself by his nickname and middle name? Copy their image location and paste it into Google images. See if you find a photo that matches and try to get a name from that.
● Twitter: Cover events live, help police put out photos of suspects, All Points Bulletins, etc. Use the advanced search function to look for an incident happening near to and see what people are saying about it.
● LinkedIn: Can find former employees, reasons for or dates when someone departed a company. The “Insightful Stats” shows workers demographics such as years of employment. Useful for: Finding out what's really going on in a company, reaching out to disgruntled employees.
● MySpace: Not just for kids anymore. Useful for: Finding existing evidence for sexual abuse stories. Some sex offenders use MySpace to lure kids in. There is a big military presence, music scene presence and Hispanic presence on MySpace as well, more than on Facebook.
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