QuickDraw 0 #1 April 13, 2003 Been looking over Snope's site today and come across this, i did a search just to make sure no-one had posted it before (as far as i'm aware anyhow) It was in the "what's new" section on their site btw. QuoteBeware the New Google Feature! www.google.com Type your home telephone number into Google's search bar & click the search button . . . MapQuest returns with a physical location of your phone number. People could use this feature to locate your home address, and receive explicit directions on how to get there from anywhere in the country. You can remove your name off this database To do this: Type in your full phone number -- using dashes -- like this: 555-123-4567. If your number appears in the mapping database, an icon resembling a telephone will appear to left of the entry on the results page. Click on this icon and it will take you to a page containing a description of the service, and a link to request your number be removed! Recheck your phone # to be sure it has been removed. Also, if you have children, please check their phone # too! This is another example of invasion of privacy, isn't it? Not really an issue here in the UK, but a penny for them ? -- Hope you don't die. -- I'm fucking winning Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Casch 0 #2 April 13, 2003 Damnit that's creepy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Push 0 #3 April 13, 2003 Verification by empirical experiment: a) Open www.google.com b) Type in home phone number c) Get "no results" page Verification by empirical experiment failed -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jceman 1 #4 April 13, 2003 Quote Verification by empirical experiment: a) Open www.google.com b) Type in home phone number c) Get "no results" page Verification by empirical experiment failed Type in the number in this format {"(xxx) xxx xxxx"} Without the corlt brackets, of course. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Push 0 #5 April 13, 2003 I tried: (xxx) xxx xxxx (xxx)-xxx-xxxx xxxxxxxxxx (xxx)xxxxxxx (xxx) xxxxxxx (xxx)-xxxxxxx xxx-xxxxxxx With and without surronding double quotations. I thought about trying single quotes but couldn't be bothered Am I doing this wrong? Did you get it to work? EDITED TO ADD: (xxx) xxx xx xx -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hookitt 1 #6 April 13, 2003 it will either work or it won't. Is it caller id blocked? If it's blocked it shouldn't appear.My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jceman 1 #7 April 13, 2003 QuoteDid you get it to work? Yes and no. One of my numbers worked, the other didn't. Guess thepoint is, if your number is found, you will get a link to a map. But if you have a street address, you can get a map, anywho, so wtf's the big deal? Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hookitt 1 #8 April 13, 2003 QuoteBut if you have a street address, you can get a map, anywho, so wtf's the big deal? Drunk Hot chick gives out number to not so cool stalker type... Then wishes she hadn't He looks it up... get the picture? -----------My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
QuickDraw 0 #9 April 13, 2003 I put in a random dropzone phone # (Jacksonville Extreme Sports) and got this.... -- Hope you don't die. -- I'm fucking winning Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Push 0 #10 April 13, 2003 After a comprehensive investigation (shoving a few area codes into GoogleWe may not have DZs that fly 5 Super Otters daily, but at least you can't look us up on Google. Wait, is that good?... -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bodypilot90 0 #11 April 13, 2003 reverse look up is the same thing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kolla 0 #12 April 13, 2003 Dennis Thompson is the head honcho at Jax Extreme Sports! KollaBlue Skies Magazine Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
QuickDraw 0 #13 April 13, 2003 I got the phone number off the website, just to see weather or not it would work, i could have found all that information on the site, but its the princible that is in question here IMO. -- Hope you don't die. -- I'm fucking winning Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #14 April 13, 2003 Apparently works with LISTED numbers only.__________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Push 0 #15 April 13, 2003 I don't think this is such a big deal. Even before there ever was an internet, you could simply walk into a phone booth, crack open the White Pages and get the dough on any phone number you want. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hookitt 1 #16 April 14, 2003 Have you ever looked in a phone book and tried to look up just the phone number so you could see whose it is? Unless your Rain Man, that's gonna take a long time My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skycat 0 #17 April 14, 2003 here is what mine came up as Becky Malsom, (xxx) xxx-xxxx, 2800 W 103rd Ave, Denver, CO 80260 Yahoo! Maps MapQuest They can stalk becky all they want to....hehehe...and no I don't want you to have my phone number to include in your drunk dial list. Fly it like you stole it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hookitt 1 #18 April 14, 2003 Quote They can stalk becky all they want to....hehehe...and no I don't want you to have my phone number to include in your drunk dial list. LOL... ok!! My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Push 0 #19 April 14, 2003 Damn, I should not have disclosed my secret identityActually, I don't know about Canada, but in Israel they used to have phone books that were categorized by neighbourhoods. The superintendant in our building had one. Since phone numbers also have those patterns in them, it wasn't too difficult. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masher 1 #20 April 14, 2003 Check out http://www.google.com.au/help/features.html#wp also http://www.google.com.au/help/pbremoval.html-- Arching is overrated - Marlies Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jerm 0 #21 April 14, 2003 Quote Have you ever looked in a phone book and tried to look up just the phone number so you could see whose it is? Unless your Rain Man, that's gonna take a long time there have been reverse-lookup telephone books for ages... numbers listed in numerical order with name & address following.. this is just on a bigger scale. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TB99 0 #22 April 14, 2003 Haha ... mine worked, but didn't ... Yes, it found my phone number, but the name and address was WAY off. The name Clarence comes up (maybe this explains the 6' tall black man identity i had) and the address is across town. That also explains the huge amounts of wrong number phone calls I got when I first moved in asking for Clarence (NO JOKE! Seriously talking here!). Ah well, guess my identity is safe Trailer 11/12 was the best. Thanks for the memories ... you guys rocked! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kmcguffee 0 #23 April 14, 2003 QuoteHave you ever looked in a phone book and tried to look up just the phone number so you could see whose it is? Unless your Rain Man, that's gonna take a long time Just call information (1411) and ask for a 'reverse' on a number. They'll give you the name and address if the number is listed. "Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." Ben Franklin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gawain 0 #24 April 14, 2003 As someone that works for a very, very large phone company I can give you some basic information: 1) If your number is not listed, the only way Google is going to pick it up is if someone posted it somewhere and the Google "spiders" find it. Even then, it won't provide an address, etc. 2) You the consumer have to inform the phone company how much information you want published in the directory system (full name, initials, address, etc). 3) The phone company is required by state and federal regulators to protect what is called: CPNI (C.ustomer P.roprietary N.etwork I.nformation). 4) Being able to look up a number on the internet, or via a "reverse" directory is not a violation of CPNI. 5) If you instructed your phone company to list your name and number only, no address, a "reverse" lookup on the phone company's own lookup (a feature that can be found on www.superpages.com, www.sbc.com, www.bellsouth.com, www.qwest.com, www.alltel.com ...ad infinitum)..the result of such a look up will be name and number only. Before the internet, there were printed directories, and reverse lookup tools available. The issue that "Snopes" mentions is hardly a new phenomenon. In fact, it won't even put you at risk with telemarketers. The national do-not-call list and regulations has teeth. In fact, when you call your local phone company for customer service, they will ask your permission to access your customer record, because CPNI regulations are so tough they can't even look at it for basic customer service without your permission. Fine per violation? About $1,000,000 (yes, million). Edit to add: The US, Mexico, and Canada (and surrounding islands) are all part of the "North American Numbering Plan". NPA-NXX-ssss is the set-up.So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright 'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life Make light! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hookitt 1 #25 April 14, 2003 Being I'm not much of a phone phreak, that's interesting info I'll place back in the UIF Cheers Yo - ------ I still like Skycat's reply the best. (did I use the apostrophe correctly?) -My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
