The first method that I would like to show you.
To find a person on the internet is by using search engine operators.
Now we have already covered search engine operators in a previous section, but for this lecture I would
like to focus on only two search operators, which are the quotation marks and the or operator.
Now after you gather some initial information about a person, the next step you want to do to find
their information is to use this search operator.
This search operator works perfectly with Google, but if you have used it with other search engines
like Bing or Yandex, you may get less search results or search results about another people.
So the format of this search operator is you want to enter the first and last name of the person within
two quotation marks, and then you want to add the city where they lives.
And this is not something required.
The reason why we're adding the city is to narrow down our search results.
So we want to say, or we want to add the city of the person where he is living and then say, or the
country where the person is living, or if you know their university, then you can add it in here or
the company where they are working at, and it could be the company where they are working at right
now, or a previous company that they have worked at.
And the reason why we are specifying all of these information is just to narrow down our search, because
if you have someone with a very popular name like John Smith, then it's always good to have additional
information to narrow down your search and find the person that you're looking for.
All right.
So let me specify Rishi Kapoor information.
I'm going to say Rishi Kapoor within two quotation marks and then the city where they are living I'm
going to say Kolkata, and then I'm going to say or contact out because they are working at Contact
Out or SRM, which is the university where Rishi Kapoor has studied.
Now I can also add India, but since I know that Rishi Kabra is also a popular name in India.
This might result in finding other people with this name that live in India, and that's why specifying
the city is better than specifying the country.
So I'm going to hit enter.
And here the search result.
We can see his LinkedIn account, his X account, and another person whose name is Rishi Kabra who lives
in the United States, which is another person.
We can also see his Facebook account.
We can see that he mentioned the SRM University in his Facebook account, and that's why we are getting
this account.
We can scroll down and see his Tableau account, which is a website that is used to manage LinkedIn
accounts.
And we can see his GitHub account and some articles that he wrote on Contact Out website.
And here we have another information about Rishi Kabra.
And this seems to be his business email address, which is something that we have already gathered.
We can scroll down and see his Ask.fm account and a search result on Signalfire and his Quora account.
And another person that is not related to Rishi that we are looking for.
We can scroll down more and see the PDF document that we have found before.
And here we can see an article that were written on the org website.
And if we scroll down more we can see a review that he made on Zomato.
So let me open this.
Let me see if this is the person that we are looking for.
So let me scroll down and I'm going to search for Rishi Kapoor.
And as you can see in 2016, he made a review on this website and some information about the place that
he went to.
And we can also see his profile picture that he used on his Instagram account.
And this is something that we did not find before when we have searched for Rishi Khabra in the search
engine section.
Now let me come back and scroll down more.
We can see here that he made a review.
So let me see if this is his account.
And here we can see that there are some people who made reviews on this power bank.
And we can see that we have 13 or more than 13,000 reviews we can go to overall and search for his review,
so I can scroll down and go through all of these pages to find his review.
Now let's come back.
And we can see here that he made a review on this website.
So let me open it.
And if I zoomed in I can see a review made by Rishi Kabra.
So let me scroll down here.
We can see that he made a review on 7th of May 2024.
So this is very recent and we can see some information about the place that he went to.
So let me scroll up.
So this is the place that he stayed at.
But we don't know whether this is his account or not.
But if we read the review we can see that he is saying that he did not order food as it seemed to be
a bit expensive.
But Zomato works and we already know and seen that he has a Zomato account, as we can see here.
But again, we don't know whether this is the same person, because it might be a different person with
the same name, Rishi Kabra, that also has a Zomato account that made this review.
So we cannot confirm whether this is the same person.
But I always like to copy the URL and put it in my notes just in case.
I found another information related to Rishi Kabra or to this place that might confirm that he was in
this place.
So let's come back.
We can see that there are many other reviews, and we can keep scrolling down and find that there are
some information that we can dig in, but you have got the ID, you can already see how much time and
effort we have saved just by using this search operator.
So in this lecture, you have learned how you can use search engine operators to narrow down your search
on search engines to find the person that you are looking for.
As you have seen before, you might be able to get some information about the person, just like the
reviews which will reveal the person's interests and where they were at.