by HillBilly » Thu Dec 17, 2015 4:17 am
In case you don't know how to research, Volvo, I have taken a clip of an article on this site about effective searching.
Effective Google Searching
Using Google search engine can be quite daunting for people not used to doing research, as the sheer volume of results could be huge. Your aim is to provide Google with enough information to allow it to bring back the most relevant results on page one, and for those to be exactly what you need to read. It is suggested that you read the help page about Google Search [link] to help you understand the basics of how to search.
Remember that any piece of information you have about a company can be searched for, and the list from the earlier section "What Information Do I Need..." gives you the basis of your search queries.
Try to include additional keywords into the search that could alert you to a previously reported scam or fraud. For example, if you enter Charles Soludo into a search, you will get in the region of 146,000 results, which isn't that much helpful as it is a very popular name. Now try Charles Soludo "scam" to only include results that have the word scam in the index too. That one then comes down to 80,000 records. Do not forget the word fraud either, so a search for Charles Soludo "fraud" gets you 73,000 results. You will also note that results are sorted differently, so using both words in two searches can be helpful to narrow things down. Use this technique on any piece of information, like company names, postal addresses, people names etc.
Telephone numbers are a little more difficult to search for as they can be written in different ways. However, let me show you how to alter the formatting in different searches to help you get the maximum out of it. We will use a sample number taken from a randomly selected Profile:- 0023733117099 - Ok so how would you change the formatting to get different results?
0023733117099 - Gives 4 results.
23733117099 - 2 results here.
"237 33117099" - 684 results. Remember that here the quotes force the search to include 234 AND 33117099