Looking for someone? Try Zaba search.

[kanrok]

Pretty cool stuff. Type in "Karl Rove" here: http://www.zabasearch.com/

BTW this is NOT an advertisement for this web-site.

[truebrit71]

1. No, actually this is not cool...

...not cool at all.....

[Maddy McCall]

5. Yes. Imagine being a battered woman who's moved far away...

from her abuser, for safety's sake. Now he can find her with a click of a mouse.

Sickening, and it ought to be illegal.

[kanrok]

10. Glass half empty?

I guess we can find all kinds of problems with any technology if we choose to.

[Maddy McCall]

11. Um, no. I'm that woman.

[kanrok]

12. Sorry to hear that.

[bertha katzenengel]

13. so's my sister -- and god dammit, I found her current address and phone --

and she pays to be unlisted. FUCK.

I found her abuser, I think, and went to buy the background/criminal check. It won't do it w/out street address, city and state. Well, how the fuck should I know that shit? :grr:

[MidwestMomma]

27. Might try this site.....

www.usa-people-search.com/

Looks like you can search by name and then pay for different levels of infor.

Found it while looking up myself.

Guess there's little point in having an unlisted number anymore because I'm listed on both sites. That stinks.

[warrens]

18. This stuff was plenty easy to do before this

Just looking through electronic white pages also supplies addresses.

[Maddy McCall]

23. No it doesn't.

Not if you're unlisted.

[kanrok]

24. I'm unlisted, but

this site gives my current address. The telephone number is my old work number.

[Birthmark]

2. I did try - several times

In each case the information it returned was old, sometimes a couple of decades old. I'm unimpressed with zabasearch's results and appalled at their intent.

[patcox2]

16. There are a dozen sites where for 29.99 you can get current info.

And much more info, too. There's a real good service that advertises on Classmates.com, and I think the fact that they advertise there is indicative of what the most common use of these things is; looking up old friends.

I think its absurd to think that the promoters of this service intend it to be used by stalkers and abusers, any more than the publishers of telephone books do. The mere fact of your existence and location has never been considered "private."

Maybe its because I am middle-aged, and have many old friends I have lost track of, that I find it fascinating and benign. I also know a surprising number of people who have looked up old loves and wound up marrying them.

The misuse and abuse by a few should not justify a flat prohibition affecting everyone.

[Birthmark]

20. I guess we differ, patcox2

There is a reason that I let people lose track of me. :D

[Q3JR4]

3. It looks as if

they uses the phone book to get results. My parent's phone is in my name and when I do a search for me in the state, that's where I show up.

It doesn't show where I currently am nor does it show what my current number is, which leads me in the phone direction.

[VelmaD]

4. What I find most amusing...

is that my previous addresses are on there...but not my current one. So much for using that to find me.

[billbuckhead]

6. Public domain stuff like business licenses

[kick-ass-bob]

19. lord, it sucks. something. awful. Looked my wife up

and it listed places my relatives have lived - not her, with their phone numbers. (and not our current address.)

How the hell does it search???

So, no real problem for stalkers - they'd get quite a shock when they see some strange man when they expect a younger woman.
:eyes:

[Adams Wulff]

7. A true stalker's delight.

technology run amok.

[ChoralScholar]

8. mine turned up every address and phone number in the last ten years

but the birth year was wrong on most of them.

[johnnie]

9. For the people who find this wrong

That info is out there everywhere. It has always been and it will be. As long as you have a listed telephone number, it is out there. Before the Internet, you just had to go to the public library and look it up in the phone books.

[bertha katzenengel]

14. My sister's and my numbers are unlisted; both show up. What say you?

Not a snarky challenge, johnnie, just . . . :wtf:

[johnnie]

15. I don't know

Maybe you gave it out to a business or something. The whole "unlisted" thing has changed a lot in the last few years.
I guess what I meant was that a lot of this information is out there anyway. You can go to many sites and look up people. The Ultimate White pages has a lot of different lookups.
I have never had a "unlisted" number, so I don't know too much about what has become of that option.
I just don't know. You got me! :hi:

[Jokerman]

17. Looks like they must gather mailing list info

Several years ago I started getting junk mail with my name with the wrong middle initial. That name shows up there with my current address.

[kanrok]

21. It gives my last three addresses accurately

(including my current address) but it gives my old work number. Strange.

[drdon326]

22. Really.

same here

[Lauri16]

26. I'm not in there,

and only two family members are...the only two that subscribe to just about every piece of e-junk mail out there. Maybe that's how they get it? :shrug:

[SarahB]

25. I'm not there.

Good. B-)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

28. I tried several people of my acquaintance, as well as myself, and

some of the information is outdated. For example, it still has me living in Oregon.

[kanrok]

29. But did you try Karl Rove?

How about John Kerry? Britney Spears? That's where the fun's at!

[mitchum]

30. I found out the true age of a friend who has always been very cagey...

and it is exactly what I had estimated (taking into account the chronology of his life events, etc)

It did not turn up my unlisted phone number

[drdon326]

33. Its pretty good.

[GreenPartyVoter]

31. I can't click the text, and they got my age wrong

[valis]

32. I just found where Adolph Hitler lives!!!!

Try...