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Google giving out addresses for phone numbers
Google.com has implemented a new feature wherein you can type
someone's telephone # into the search bar and hit enter and you will be given a map to their house. You can however have your # removed or blocked. I tested this and sure enough my address came up, and when I clicked on the mapquest link, a map came up with a star on my house. Unbelievable. Think about it, if a child or anyone gives out their # someone can find out exactly where they live. The safety issues are obvious and alarming. To test this go to www.google.com and type your # in the search bar and hit enter. If you want to block google from giving out your private info, simply click on phonebook results above your # and scroll down. I removed my name, but it takes about 48 hours. If your # is unlisted you might not be in there but it would be a good idea to check. You might want to pass this info on to friends & family. dragon |
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dragon wrote: Google.com has implemented a new feature wherein you can type someone's telephone # into the search bar and hit enter and you will be given a map to their house. You can however have your # removed or blocked. I tested this and sure enough my address came up, and when I clicked on the mapquest link, a map came up with a star on my house. Unbelievable. Think about it, if a child or anyone gives out their # someone can find out exactly where they live. The safety issues are obvious and alarming. To test this go to www.google.com and type your # in the search bar and hit enter. If you want to block google from giving out your private info, simply click on phonebook results above your # and scroll down. I removed my name, but it takes about 48 hours. If your # is unlisted you might not be in there but it would be a good idea to check. You might want to pass this info on to friends & family. dragon We got this information in my child's PTA newsletter. What it doesn't say is that there's nothing at all new about this. I mean, it may be new to google, but it's not new to the Internet at all. Try www.whitepages.com, www.whowhere.com, www.anywho.com, www.switchboard.com - they all have reverse phone lookups, and there are probably other sites as well. This is just the online version of print reverse-lookup directories, which I would guess are still around as well. Clisby |
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Assuming of course that your phone number is listed anyway. It doesn't give
it if your line is private and not in the phone book anyway. This isn't a new thing anyway. You can do a reverse look up on a phone number and get the full address and sorts of information. I found out from the internet on how many homes my neighbor has owned and his age. But this was because his phone number is listed. It didn't give me any information on us because our number is not listed. -- Sue (mom to three girls) "dragon" wrote in message oups.com... Google.com has implemented a new feature wherein you can type someone's telephone # into the search bar and hit enter and you will be given a map to their house. You can however have your # removed or blocked. I tested this and sure enough my address came up, and when I clicked on the mapquest link, a map came up with a star on my house. Unbelievable. Think about it, if a child or anyone gives out their # someone can find out exactly where they live. The safety issues are obvious and alarming. To test this go to www.google.com and type your # in the search bar and hit enter. If you want to block google from giving out your private info, simply click on phonebook results above your # and scroll down. I removed my name, but it takes about 48 hours. If your # is unlisted you might not be in there but it would be a good idea to check. You might want to pass this info on to friends & family. dragon |
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"dragon" wrote in message oups.com... Google.com has implemented a new feature wherein you can type someone's telephone # into the search bar and hit enter and you will be given a map to their house. You can however have your # removed or blocked. I tested this and sure enough my address came up, and when I clicked on the mapquest link, a map came up with a star on my house. This is surprising. Google came out with a great new mapping featu maps.google.com I hope they make it so that it automatically goes to their new mapping feature, as well. But, the reverse lookup is not new for google, either. They have been doing it for a long time. Google has some really cool tools. I love their Picasa Photo Organzier and Google Desktop Search. Go to www.google.com, and choose More near where you enter the search string. Unbelievable. Think about it, if a child or anyone gives out their # someone can find out exactly where they live. The safety issues are obvious and alarming. I agree. The convience features are really cool, though. You don't know where your son's friend lives? Just type in his phone number. Or you don't know where a business is? Just type in the phone number. You don't even have to bother the staff, and you could print it out. To test this go to www.google.com and type your # in the search bar and hit enter. If you want to block google from giving out your private info, simply click on phonebook results above your # and scroll down. I removed my name, but it takes about 48 hours. If your # is unlisted you might not be in there but it would be a good idea to check. You might want to pass this info on to friends & family. I obviously had a different take on this than you. I like the technology and see how it can benefit us. Plus, I am a fan of google and their new browser (they helped fund the development, but they don't own it), FoxFire (at www.mozilla.com). You are concerned about the privacy issues. (So am I.) Thanks for reminding us of this. Jeff BTW, I highly recommend FoxFire and ThunderBird, the new email program. Both are excellent and safer than Microsoft's products. dragon |
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dragon wrote:
Google.com has implemented a new feature wherein you can type someone's telephone # into the search bar and hit enter and you will be given a map to their house. 0 for 8. Not very reliable it seems. |
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On 2 Mar 2005 08:51:41 -0800, "dragon" wrote:
To test this go to www.google.com and type your # in the search bar and hit enter. If you want to block google from giving out your private info, simply click on phonebook results above your # and scroll down. I removed my name, but it takes about 48 hours. If your # is unlisted you might not be in there but it would be a good idea to check. You might want to pass this info on to friends & family. This has long been available from other sites less well known than google. http://www.anywho.com and http://www.switchboard.com both offer reverse searches on phone number and both have links to mapquest to get maps to the addresses. Since they do use the white pages, usually unlisted numbers will not appear. OTOH, they also link to pages that *claim* to get unlisted phone numbers, but require payment. My number is unlisted and fascinatingly enough, my number does come up with someone else's name in one directory I know of. Might explain some of the wrong numbers we get asking for someone who we don't know g Note that there are public pay sites where people can not only get your name and address, but a background check on you. So far, the one I checked though still has me in Chicago and would have the wrong phone and address. Worries me though in that they offer info on ssns and other personal information that could be used to steal your identity. Whether or not a crook would use these sites and pay for the info, I have no idea. -- Dorothy There is no sound, no cry in all the world that can be heard unless someone listens .. The Outer Limits |
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:55:38 GMT, Clisby
wrote: This is just the online version of print reverse-lookup directories, which I would guess are still around as well. In fact, there was a phone number you could call to do reverse phone lookups. I had it at one point when I had my own business because it was helpful for confirming the addresses of customers when necessary, though I didn't use it often. -- Dorothy There is no sound, no cry in all the world that can be heard unless someone listens .. The Outer Limits |
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dragon wrote:
Google.com has implemented a new feature wherein you can type someone's telephone # into the search bar and hit enter and you will be given a map to their house. That isn't anything new. You can do that on all sorts of websites. You can also go to websites and just enter the address and you'll find out the name and phone number of who lives there. -- Nikki |
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:08:09 -0600, toto
scribbled: On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:55:38 GMT, Clisby wrote: This is just the online version of print reverse-lookup directories, which I would guess are still around as well. In fact, there was a phone number you could call to do reverse phone lookups. I had it at one point when I had my own business because it was helpful for confirming the addresses of customers when necessary, though I didn't use it often. Any public library will also carry a Polk Directory (you can look up an address and get the name and phone number) or a Haines Directory available for use. Nan |
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"dragon" wrote in message oups.com... Google.com has implemented a new feature wherein you can type someone's telephone # into the search bar and hit enter and you will be given a map to their house. (...) What is far more concerning is the information about each of us that is stored and sold by national companies and police agencies that keep data about us. The data include credit, legal, financial and medical information. There have been some breaches in the security of this informaiton recently and a few years ago (the breaches were covered up). We don't really know about most of the info that is kept on us. We don't have the right to know what info is kept on us nor do we have a right to correct the info. (The exception to this is credit and medical info, which we do have limited rights to know about what is kept about us and to correct it.) And, we don't know who is getting the info, either. Jeff |
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