Mark Horvit, Doing deep background checks on candidates for local office

Investigative Reporters and

Editors

Run every candidate in key races through the same basic checks. This can include things like: Have they paid their property taxes? Do they have any liens? Do they have criminal records? Are there any civil suits against them? Any discipline from professional licensing bodies?

Advanced search

Think about how people live online: Email addresses User names Phone Numbers

• Ask.com (Subject-Specific Popularity™)

• Yippy.com (clustered results)

• Yahoo! (directory)

• Bing

• Duck Duck Go

• Browsys

Who is he/she? Google, yes, Google Also check at least one other search engine.

Where has he/she lived? Zabasearch

Does the person still live there? Do they own? Subtitle: Property records are fun BRB Publications

Court records (both for business and people). Find neighbors with whitepages. Sex offender registry. Corporate records Professional licenses

Pipl 123people SocialMention Whostalkin Samepoint Icerocket PeekYou Topsy

Domain searches can reveal a lot.Domain Tools http://www.domaintools.comAllwhois http://www.allwhois.comQuarkbase

Search by image with Google Search by image with Tin Eye EXIF Exchangeable Image File: the file format

used by most digital cameras.  Usually consists of the JPEG file format along with metadata tags.Firefox add-on

Search engine cache (Google, Bing) Wayback Machine Library of Congress’ archiving project: Mapping

the Internet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive (MINERVA)

CyberCemetery – sites of defunct government agencies and commissions