Ever Google yourself to see what comes up? I just lost a little bit of time this afternoon on www.123people.com, a site that scans for your internet presence and delivers a well-organized search-result page with lists from blogs, social networks, YouTube, web links, amazon.com, images, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and a link to "premium public records" searches. (And that might be the point of the site -- to get you to bite on the premium search.)
The site itself might be worth a shot if you're trying to find someone on the web, or find background on someone; I'm not necessarily endorsing paying for a public records search.
And it can be interesting to find out what's out there about you (and other people with your name), all pulled together on one page. Of course, these searches are never dead-on specific (even when I put in my zip code). For example, when I searched my name, images that came back included a guy in Australia who took a picture of his abs, and a couple of women. No pictures of me showed up. That's probably just as well.
The site itself might be worth a shot if you're trying to find someone on the web, or find background on someone; I'm not necessarily endorsing paying for a public records search.
And it can be interesting to find out what's out there about you (and other people with your name), all pulled together on one page. Of course, these searches are never dead-on specific (even when I put in my zip code). For example, when I searched my name, images that came back included a guy in Australia who took a picture of his abs, and a couple of women. No pictures of me showed up. That's probably just as well.
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