Google's.. got your number!
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From: Toledo, Ohio
Google's.. got your number!
Check this out.....New Google Feature http://www.google.com
Type your telephone number into Google's search bar (555-555-5555).
Then click the search button. Your name and address and phone number
will appear. There will be an icon next to your address "Yahoo Maps".
Click this and a map to your house will pop up with directions to your
house from anywhere in the country.
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...555-123-4567
If your number appears in the mapping database, an icon
resembling a telephone will appear next to 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!
If your unlisted you won't come up, if your in the book you will!
Type your telephone number into Google's search bar (555-555-5555).
Then click the search button. Your name and address and phone number
will appear. There will be an icon next to your address "Yahoo Maps".
Click this and a map to your house will pop up with directions to your
house from anywhere in the country.
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...555-123-4567
If your number appears in the mapping database, an icon
resembling a telephone will appear next to 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!
If your unlisted you won't come up, if your in the book you will!
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From: Calgary Canada
Google's.. got your number!
Originally posted by vinny8
Hmmm..I don't know darlin'....I put my phone number in..with and without the dashes..and Google said "no such document found".
Lisa
Hmmm..I don't know darlin'....I put my phone number in..with and without the dashes..and Google said "no such document found".
Lisa
Waxy
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Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 685
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From: Michigan
Google's.. got your number!
You've been able to do this for years, though not with Google - but many of the directory websites list a reverse lookup, and then link it to mapping software. You might be able to get your number removed from Google, but you really can't get it removed from most of them - and if you go to a unlisted number, they'll still keep your old info on file. I've had an unlisted number for the last 5+ years, and my old addresses are still on file (though I don't live there anymore).
I use the reverse lookup fairly often - for example, if there is a vehicle in a classified ad that I want to look at, I'll use their phone number to find an address, and then drive by their house to see if it is out by the road with a 'for sale' sign on it. This way I can look at it before I go through the trouble of contacting the owner, and see if it is really worth the effort.
LK
I use the reverse lookup fairly often - for example, if there is a vehicle in a classified ad that I want to look at, I'll use their phone number to find an address, and then drive by their house to see if it is out by the road with a 'for sale' sign on it. This way I can look at it before I go through the trouble of contacting the owner, and see if it is really worth the effort.
LK
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Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 7,298
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From: Southern California
Google's.. got your number!
Joe, now if you can just make that satalite that's been observing your house to go away. It's been broadcasting over the internet.
We already know you like to stand on the back porch in your shorts, drink JD and shoot squirrels off the back fence with your .223.
Hey, it looks like your roof needs a little work. Did you know your neighbor's wife sunbathes in the nude?
Scott
We already know you like to stand on the back porch in your shorts, drink JD and shoot squirrels off the back fence with your .223.
Hey, it looks like your roof needs a little work. Did you know your neighbor's wife sunbathes in the nude?
Scott
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From: Toledo, Ohio
Google's.. got your number!
How'd you know all that...its amazing! Neighbors wife is HOT ain't she???
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From: The Star-Club, Hamburg
Google's.. got your number!
I just removed mine, but I think that if someone wants to find you they would be able to fairly easily.
Is'nt it kind of strange that we are all worried about privacy, but most of us carry cell phones so we can always be in touch? lol
Is'nt it kind of strange that we are all worried about privacy, but most of us carry cell phones so we can always be in touch? lol
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