TMI and RPL

Hello everyone, hope the Easter Bunny was good to you. MMMM Chocolate.

Ok, you all know I love Google but is there such a thing as Too much information? or more precisely information gathered too quickly?

Pop Quiz. What do the following websites have in common?

Anywho.com
Switchboard.com
Whitepages.com
Phonenumber.com
Google.com

If you guessed reverse phone lookups, you win!

RPLs (fancy acronym added for geek appeal) are nothing new, I've been using them to track down ex-girlfriends for years. Ooops did I say that out loud.

The first four websites above might be a little harder to remember however, especially after a few beers, which is when I always used to search for ex-girlfriends.

To make your life easier...
Did you know you can type in any publicly listed phone number into Google and the associated names and address pop up quicker than you can say Big Brother.
Not only that but do you see the little linky to the right that says Map, click that.

As a test of technology I called 411 and asked them for the same information. What do you think they said? That's right, "Sorry wecan't give out that information over the phone" So I politely said "Thanks, I'll just go ask my friend Google"

Now, if you think this information is too easy to stumble on and want your name removed from Google. Just follow this link which goes to http://www.google.com/help/pbremoval.html and you can be quickly removed.

Otherwise, if you ARE the ex-girlfriend, best to just have your number unlisted.