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The first method that I would like to show you.

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To find a person on the internet is by using search engine operators.

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Now we have already covered search engine operators in a previous section, but for this lecture I would

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like to focus on only two search operators, which are the quotation marks and the or operator.

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Now after you gather some initial information about a person, the next step you want to do to find

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their information is to use this search operator.

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This search operator works perfectly with Google, but if you have used it with other search engines

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like Bing or Yandex, you may get less search results or search results about another people.

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So the format of this search operator is you want to enter the first and last name of the person within

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two quotation marks, and then you want to add the city where they lives.

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And this is not something required.

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The reason why we're adding the city is to narrow down our search results.

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So we want to say, or we want to add the city of the person where he is living and then say, or the

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country where the person is living, or if you know their university, then you can add it in here or

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the company where they are working at, and it could be the company where they are working at right

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now, or a previous company that they have worked at.

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And the reason why we are specifying all of these information is just to narrow down our search, because

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if you have someone with a very popular name like John Smith, then it's always good to have additional

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information to narrow down your search and find the person that you're looking for.

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All right.

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So let me specify Rishi Kapoor information.

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I'm going to say Rishi Kapoor within two quotation marks and then the city where they are living I'm

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going to say Kolkata, and then I'm going to say or contact out because they are working at Contact

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Out or SRM, which is the university where Rishi Kapoor has studied.

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Now I can also add India, but since I know that Rishi Kabra is also a popular name in India.

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This might result in finding other people with this name that live in India, and that's why specifying

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the city is better than specifying the country.

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So I'm going to hit enter.

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And here the search result.

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We can see his LinkedIn account, his X account, and another person whose name is Rishi Kabra who lives

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in the United States, which is another person.

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We can also see his Facebook account.

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We can see that he mentioned the SRM University in his Facebook account, and that's why we are getting

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this account.

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We can scroll down and see his Tableau account, which is a website that is used to manage LinkedIn

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accounts.

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And we can see his GitHub account and some articles that he wrote on Contact Out website.

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And here we have another information about Rishi Kabra.

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And this seems to be his business email address, which is something that we have already gathered.

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We can scroll down and see his Ask.fm account and a search result on Signalfire and his Quora account.

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And another person that is not related to Rishi that we are looking for.

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We can scroll down more and see the PDF document that we have found before.

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And here we can see an article that were written on the org website.

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And if we scroll down more we can see a review that he made on Zomato.

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So let me open this.

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Let me see if this is the person that we are looking for.

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So let me scroll down and I'm going to search for Rishi Kapoor.

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And as you can see in 2016, he made a review on this website and some information about the place that

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he went to.

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And we can also see his profile picture that he used on his Instagram account.

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And this is something that we did not find before when we have searched for Rishi Khabra in the search

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engine section.

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Now let me come back and scroll down more.

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We can see here that he made a review.

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So let me see if this is his account.

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And here we can see that there are some people who made reviews on this power bank.

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And we can see that we have 13 or more than 13,000 reviews we can go to overall and search for his review,

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so I can scroll down and go through all of these pages to find his review.

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Now let's come back.

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And we can see here that he made a review on this website.

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So let me open it.

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And if I zoomed in I can see a review made by Rishi Kabra.

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So let me scroll down here.

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We can see that he made a review on 7th of May 2024.

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So this is very recent and we can see some information about the place that he went to.

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So let me scroll up.

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So this is the place that he stayed at.

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But we don't know whether this is his account or not.

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But if we read the review we can see that he is saying that he did not order food as it seemed to be

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a bit expensive.

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But Zomato works and we already know and seen that he has a Zomato account, as we can see here.

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But again, we don't know whether this is the same person, because it might be a different person with

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the same name, Rishi Kabra, that also has a Zomato account that made this review.

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So we cannot confirm whether this is the same person.

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But I always like to copy the URL and put it in my notes just in case.

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I found another information related to Rishi Kabra or to this place that might confirm that he was in

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this place.

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So let's come back.

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We can see that there are many other reviews, and we can keep scrolling down and find that there are

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some information that we can dig in, but you have got the ID, you can already see how much time and

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effort we have saved just by using this search operator.

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So in this lecture, you have learned how you can use search engine operators to narrow down your search

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on search engines to find the person that you are looking for.

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As you have seen before, you might be able to get some information about the person, just like the

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reviews which will reveal the person's interests and where they were at.