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What a people search engine is and how to find anyone

October 25, 2022January 27, 2023 Karan S

A people search engine is a helpful tool you can use to locate information on people, much like you would use a phonebook, except that you can find out more about the people. You can use it for Google searches, social media, or in conjunction with a phone book to look up numbers and addresses, and how Radaris deep data search can help you find people with accuracy. Why use a people search? Maybe you’re looking to reconnect with an old classmate or find out if your new neighbor is…

A Review of Five Search Engines in 2020 - Google alternative

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 Karan S

It seems like every new year comes with new websites, browsers, and technology. If you’re sick of Google tracking your every move or getting too many of those ads that just happen to be geared towards exactly what you’ve recently searched, it’s best to go with an alternative search engine. They’re safe, secure, and produce great results. Let’s take a look at a review of five search engines in 2020 to see what some of your options are. DuckDuckGo Starting us off is a search engine called DuckDuckGo. This is…

What Google Can’t Find, Shodan Can [Search Connected Devices]

April 9, 2013April 14, 2013 Tarandeep Singh

When we don’t find it on Google, we declare it doesn’t exist. But as per Founder Shodan, that statement is not essentially true. He believes that when something is not searchable on Google, that’s when probability of finding it on Shodan is much higher than usual. Shodan may be the world’s most unique and scariest Search engine very unique to its kind. Shodan instead of looking for content on the web, goes through the back resources and tries to find assets like Servers, printers, webcams, routers and even iPhones connected to the…

Google’s Neural Networks: Machine’s Brain-like Learning

October 7, 2012October 7, 2012 Tarandeep Singh

We all know Google has been a leader of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence research. The observations are prevalent with Google Search Engine. Google Search is still the most popular and most powerful Search engine ever built, and probably best for decades to come. Google Search always returns the must accurate search result, and its like magic. The latest in news, Google has set a new landmark with software that learned how to recognize cats, people, and other things simply by watching YouTube videos. That technology, is designed on the…

Camera prints Text, Contextual MetaData Description of the Shot

September 30, 2012September 30, 2012 Tarandeep Singh

The cameras we know shoots images and the final jpeg or raw image is available for our visual delight. How about a Camera that shoots a scene and outputs MetaData description of what it sees. e.g. Shoot a room full of people, and it tells in detail about kind of audience, etc in the room. The camera is called Descriptive Camera and does exactly what it says. Its like Google Goggles Visual search in a way, point your smartphone camera and tells you what you’re looking at. But Descriptive Camera goes further,…

Add Twitter search to Google Search results

January 12, 2012January 12, 2012 Tarandeep Singh

Few months back Google announced that they would stop the Realtime search partnership with Twitter as Twitter had its own concerns. And now that Google is doing well with Google+, personal search results are introduced that leverages content from your Circles, and highlights them along with organic search results. Its a great value add to search, but not everyone is a Google+ user and not everyone likes to have personal search results. Instead, you might want to bring back the Twitter search results. If you’re among those, you’re lucky, coz…

Google: Goggles, Voice, Instant Images Search, Instant Pages on Desktop

June 14, 2011June 14, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

Google has announced couple of new things in its ever evolving Search engine. Here are the new things announced: Voice Search for desktop: Allt eh complex queries can now be spoken at google.com Google Goggles or Search by Image on Chrome (native), Firefox (through extension). Just drag and drop any image and Google would tell you what place it is, who the person is, what the object is about. Instant Image Search: Type int eh search box and image results change as-you-type. Instant Search in all major languages all around…

Soon you will be able to Identify Person by Shooting Photo

February 25, 2011February 25, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

How many times did you saw a person you think you have seen before and not able to recall ? How many times did you wish you knew that blonde girl heading your way? Seems like all of the wishes are about to become true with Google’s new patent for social faces. We are very nearly there with automatic face-recognition technology and social media aggregation. Google Goggles is a Visual search engine for mobile phones which allows users to take a picture of anything, such as a landmark, or a celebrity…

Remove Bloatware Sites from Google Search Results

February 15, 2011February 15, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

Rise of the content farms and spammy sites that have little actual content has caused trouble for both Google and Google users. The problem is ofcourse not limited to Google, but affects every Search engine equally. So what can you do to remove such sites from search results? Initially Google had launched a labs experiment that allowed you to remove a specific search result, later on it was dumped in favor of “star” which actually moves that search result to the top, the next time you search for it. Google…

Google Anti-Content-Farm Spam Algorithm Live

January 28, 2011January 28, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

Content Farms have been considered one of the biggest challenges for the Google search. There were a large number of pointers that raised fingers on Google and its spam fighting techniques. But seems like Google has been listening and made the final algorithm change to discourage Content Fram’s & low quality blogs. I had been watching the buzz about “traffic reduction on content farms and various blogs” on twitter from various blog/forum owners. The official word comes from Google’s Anti-spam team’s head, Matt Cutts. If you are interested about reading…

Google Search gets Instant Previews for Results

November 9, 2010November 9, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Few days back Google began testing instant search previews — something that has been there on Bing & Ask. The feature has now been branded and shows you a preview of what the search result looks like. Today, Google has announced that previews have been officially available to general public across the world. In our testing, we’ve found that people using search Previews increase confidence in Link before clicking. The previews provide new ways to evaluate search results, making you more likely to find what you’re looking for on the pages…

Google Instant on Mobile : Android, iPhone

November 5, 2010November 5, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Google Instant has delighted our ways of searching by making it faster and more elegant. Google Instant now arrive for Mobiles, displaying search results as you type, making a beta version available to most iPhone and Android devices in the U.S. How To Try Google Instant on Mobile: Navigate to google.com in your phone’s browser and tap the Google Instant “Turn on” link. If you don’t see the “Turn on” link, try refreshing refreshing. Like the desktop version, Results for the first prediction appear automatically on your phone, and tapping on the other…

How Google tackles Malware-Distribution

October 30, 2010October 30, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Its not easy to run world’s biggest Search engine, and yet make it robust against spams, malware. Everyday, Fabrice Jaubert and his team layouts new plans to conquer and kill malware from the web. At a security conference, SecTor, Google malware researcher gave a rare peek inside the massive amounts of efforts of Google’s anti-malware and anti-phishing technologies. Google showcased stories of the attackers who make it their business to infect sites and exploit users. And what makes it worse is that users are adapting these blackhat/unethical tactics very quickly and creatively…

Google Search gets Page Previews

October 6, 2010October 6, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Google is today testing a new Rollout of its Search results that shows Full page preview when you hover over the search results. The image previews load pretty fast as they are compressed to something nearing 5-10kb. The screenshot below should give you a fair idea: The beauty of these previews is that it highlights sections of the page (in orange) with snippet containing information. The snippets highlighted are not always the same as the snippets in the search results. Click anywhere on the preview takes you directly to the site. This…