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After finding someone's personal or business email address.

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The next step is to gather information about this email address.

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So if you have got an email address and you don't know to which person this email address belongs to,

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then you can perform the techniques that I'm going to talk about in this section.

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You might also be able to gather information about the location of the person who is using this email

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address.

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So the first method that I would like to cover is use search operators to check whether an email address

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is indexed by search engines or not.

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For example, here I have searched for z at z security.org on Google and were able to get a search result.

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Now obviously this is a business email address and it's very expected to find it on search engines.

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But there are many cases in which I were able to find someone's email in other websites.

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And these websites helped me to narrow down my search.

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Now let me show you a real life example.

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So far we have gathered two email addresses.

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This is the first one.

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Rishi Kapoor 132 at gmail.com that we were able to find it in this document on Google.

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And this is the second email address that we found it on his Twitch account.

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So what I always like to do is just to copy the email address and then go to Google and put it within

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two quotation marks and then hit enter.

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And here we have got two search results, as you can see here.

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And the email address is or has been found in this document.

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So let me open this document.

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As you can see here is Rishi Kabra email address.

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And this is his name.

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And this is the document that he wrote I believe.

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So in this case I can copy the title of this document.

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And then you want to go to Google and put this title within two quotation marks.

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And then I'm going to hit enter, because this might provide me with any additional information.

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So we have already got these two search results on Google by performing the previous search.

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But if we scroll down a little bit we can see the university name where Rishi Kabra has studied.

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So I can open this website and then scroll down and see the people or the supervisors of this publication

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or document.

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Now for me this is not very important, but what's actually important is that if this person didn't

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have a LinkedIn account and they didn't post that, they studied at the SRM University.

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Now, I know that they have studied at this university, and I can go to search engines and search for

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his name and this university, and I might get a search result.

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In our case, we already know that he studied at the SRM University.

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This is the PDF file that I have downloaded from his LinkedIn account.

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But in case the person didn't have a LinkedIn account and they have a very popular name, then you can

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search for the university name and their name on search engines.

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So I can say SRM University like this and then say Rishi Kabra and then hit enter and then we will get

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less search results.

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Now let's search for the second email address which is his gaming email address.

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I'm going to copy it and then go to Google and then search for it.

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And as you can see we have got only one search result, which seems to be his YouTube channel.

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So here is his YouTube channel with the same logo that we have found on his Twitter account.

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And this is his email address.

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We can also find additional information like his Twitch account, just in case we didn't have his Twitch

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account.

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Now we have it because he has linked it to his YouTube channel.

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Now you want to keep in mind to search for this same email on other search engines like Bing or Yandex.

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So if we have searched for Rishi Kalra at gmail.com on Yandex, we will probably get a search result.

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So as you can see, we have got some search results.

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Let me put it within two quotation marks.

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And now we only got two search results, one on GitHub and the second one in the document that we have

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already saved in our notes.

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One more thing that I would like to show you, which is if you have someone's email like this, I always

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like to remove the domain name and then search for the first part of the email on search engines.

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Now, we already know that Rishi Kabra uses this username on multiple accounts, But in case someone

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has a very unique email address, then you can search for the first part of the email on search engines

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so we can copy it and put it on Google, etc. as you can see.

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So in this lecture, you have learned how you can utilize search operators to find whether an email

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address is indexed by search engines or not, and how to search for the first part of an email address

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on Google or any other search engine to find if there are any accounts that uses the first part of the

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email as a username.

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Now you want to keep in mind that this is not going to work all the time, because if the person is

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not active online, then they will obviously have nothing on the internet that they have posted.

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So this sometimes works and sometimes doesn't work, but I think that it's always good to give it a

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try, because you might be able to find information that you will not be able to find otherwise.