Information Gathering Techniques

Do you ever find it difficult to search people on the web, or information about a particular website?

There are certain websites and search engines which can provide you efficient results.

·        INFORMATION GATHERING ABOUT A PERSON

1.     pipl

• link:- https://pipl.com/
• It is a people-search engine.
• It is called as the most comprehensive people search on the web. Pipl query-engine finds high-quality results in pages that cannot be found on regular search engines such as online personal profiles, phone listings, court records and scientific publications.

2.     LinkedIn

• link-https://www.linkedin.com/
• LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service and can prove helpful for searching people.

3.     20search

•  link-http://20search.com/
• There is a search engine list present at the sidebar, from where you can Pick any search engine, enter your search term, and click search. Your results will open up in a new window. If you are unable to find what you want to, just close the results window, pick a new engine from the search engine list and search again (your search term will already be filled in).
• There is also a search engine of 20search which combines the results of all the listed search engines.

4.     Bing.com

•  Link-http://www.bing.com/
• Bing (known previously as Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is a web search engine from Microsoft.

5.     Dogpile (meta search engine)

• Link- www.dogpile.com
• dogpile combines results from everywhere.
• It is a search engine that fetches results from Google, Yahoo! and Yandex, and includes results from several other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers.

6.     Social networking sites

• You can easily search people on social networking sites like Facebook, twitter etc.

7.     Job sites

• There are various job sites where you can look up for a particular person.

8.     People search

•       INFORMATION GATHERING ABOUT A WEBSITE

1.     Whois

• Link-http://www.whois.com/whois/
• Whois is query to database to get following information. 

• Owner of website.
• Email id used to register domain.
• Domain registrar.
•  Domain name server information.
•  Related websites.

2.     Domaintools

 Link-http://whois.domaintools.com/

3.     Domaindossier

• Link-http://centralops.net/co/domaindossier.aspx
•  Provides you with the best results.
• This is the easy way to find Information about the target. There is lots of website over internet that can help you to collect information. 

4.     Yougetsignal.com

•  Link-http://www.yougetsignal.com/
• It contains several tools like phone no. geolocator, IP address finder etc. 

• Add on for Information gathering- Passive recon

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