Before automated tools, dashboards, and APIs became mainstream, online investigators relied on something far more basic and powerful: search engines. Google search operators remain one of the most effective ways to perform manual OSINT, especially when the goal is social media searching and people profiling.
For readers who want to move beyond manual discovery and scale this process across platforms, a dedicated user search solution provides a structured way to find and analyze profiles across multiple social networks.
This guide is written for a technical and geeky audience. If you enjoy understanding how things work under the hood and prefer to verify results yourself before trusting a tool, this article is for you. We will focus on practical Google search operators that still work today, with real examples for Reddit, LinkedIn, and X, formerly Twitter.
This content supports advanced user search workflows and complements automated solutions by helping you understand what data is publicly discoverable using nothing but a browser and the right query.
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Facebook launches online apps store with games and other applications intended for use in the social network. 
It’s been about six months since Facebook presented Timeline for pages. Now the social network introduces next innovation: starting from this week, each Timeline Page will get an email address.
Former founder of the ambitious, but failed Google Wave project, Lars Rasmussen, is now a part of Facebook team and working on a new, improved version of the Facebook search engine, which must compete with the Google’s one.
In the social network Facebook profiles of popular users will be checked up in the nearest future. Owners of these accounts will have to confirm that they are real people. It was reported by TechCrunch.
The social networks War between Facebook and Google Plus has reached next level. The administration of Facebook has already blocked special Chrome extension for exporting contact data of Facebook friends to Google Plus, and now Facebook banned ads related to Google Plus.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg already have an account on the new social network Google +. There are 39 people in his circle at this moment, including technical director of Facebook Bret Taylor, and over 20 thousands of users added Zuckerberg to their circles.
