DeepSearch Learn
Practical guides to find, verify, and use public information responsibly.
Getting Started
What Is DeepSearch? How It Works and What It Can Find
Understand DeepSearch source categories, lookup boundaries, provider-dependent coverage, and the private data the product cannot access.
How to write a useful DeepSearch query
Choose the right lookup mode, format identifiers cleanly, add only useful context, and write bounded research questions that can be verified.
How to search common names without mixing people
Keep namesakes separate, use stable public anchors, compare candidates consistently, and stop identity merges when evidence conflicts.
How to verify a DeepSearch result using its sources
Check a DeepSearch claim against its linked source, confirm the subject and date, test independent corroboration, and record a verdict.
Which DeepSearch lookup type should you use?
Choose between name, username, email, phone, image, photo-location, company, VIN, and research modes without overclaiming.
How to correct or remove information from DeepSearch
Choose the right path for a wrong result, namesake mix-up, public-page removal, search deindexing, source correction, or account deletion.
Find Information
How to find someone's social media profiles
How to go from a name, username, or email to the public profiles that actually belong to the same person - and how to tell a real match from a coincidence.
How to find out who owns an email address
What an email address reveals about its owner, how to read the parts of one, and how to check whether a message really came from who it claims.
Who called me? How to identify an unknown number
A practical, step-by-step way to work out who is behind an unknown number - what the area code does and doesn't tell you, and when to stop and block.
What 800, 833, 844, 855, 866, 877 and 888 numbers actually mean
The seven toll-free codes, why newer ones feel less trustworthy than they are, and why the prefix tells you nothing about who is calling.
How to find someone with incomplete information
Turn partial clues into a careful public-source search, keep namesakes separate, and stop before a possible match becomes a false identification.
How to find the earliest version of a web page
Find a page's earliest archived state, test URL variants and redirects, and separate the first capture found from the true publication date.
How to search public records without confusing people
Search official records without merging namesakes: compare dated identity anchors, preserve record provenance, and report ambiguity clearly.
What a VIN tells you - and what it doesn't
How to read all 17 characters, where to decode one free, and why mileage, accidents and ownership are not in the number at all.
How to work out where a photo was taken
Why photo metadata is usually gone, how to read location from the image itself, and the cases where no honest answer is possible.
Verify Information
How to Research a Topic with AI and Check Sources
Turn a broad question into a research brief, compare original sources and keep uncertainty visible in an AI-assisted answer.
How to Compare Sources with AI and Show Disagreements
Compare original sources, trace repeated claims and separate evidence from interpretation in an AI-assisted research workflow.
How to trace a quote to its original source
Trace a quotation through variants, citations, archives, transcripts, and recordings without confusing repetition with proof of authorship.
How to preserve and document a web source
Build an auditable web-evidence bundle with URLs, timestamps, contextual captures, archives, file hashes, limitations, and careful citations.
How to tell a primary source from a repeated claim
Match each claim to direct evidence, trace citations backward, detect circular repetition, and record what a primary source can and cannot prove.
How to verify someone is real before you meet them
A checklist for confirming an online contact is who they say they are, using only public information - and the warning signs worth walking away from.
Romance scam warning signs, and what to do next
The structure nearly every romance scam follows, the investment variant that never asks for a favour, and the exact order to act in if you're in one.
How to spot a fake or stolen profile photo
Stolen, stock, or AI-generated - how each fails differently, what reverse image search really does, and the one check that doesn't go out of date.
How to find the original source of a photo or video
Trace a photo or video through copies, crops, keyframes, dates, and archives without mistaking the first search result for the original.
How to fact-check a viral image
Test a viral image's origin, edits, date, location, source account, and caption without treating visual oddities or missing metadata as proof.
How to verify a social media account
Verify who controls a social account using exact handles, owner-controlled links, badge meanings, account history, and independent contact routes.
How to verify dates, locations, and timelines
Separate event, capture, upload, publish, update, and archive times; normalize timezones; and test whether a multi-source timeline is possible.
What “no evidence” means - and why it is not the same as “false”
Interpret an empty search honestly by testing expected evidence, coverage, detectability, retention, contradiction, and the limits of the source.
A reproducible fact-check template
Copy a practical claim card, preservation record, evidence log, source analysis, verdict framework, review gate, and visible correction record.
Privacy & Safety
Is reverse phone lookup legal?
What public-records search is and isn't allowed to be used for, why the FCRA line matters, and the decisions you must never make with a lookup result.
How to remove your personal information from people-search sites
How to get yourself removed - starting with us - what California's DROP now forces data brokers to do, and why removal is maintenance, not a one-time fix.
How to remove personal information from search results
Remove personal information at the source, choose the right Google or Bing request, document exact URLs, and verify what actually disappeared.
How to audit your public-data exposure
Audit your own public exposure across search, brokers, profiles, images, and records; prioritize harm and build a safe removal and monitoring queue.
What to do after your phone number or email is exposed
Triage an exposed phone number or email, secure compromised accounts, respond to breach risks, remove public copies, and monitor for misuse.
Data-broker opt-out directory and process comparison
Use current official opt-out routes for DROP, DeepSearch, PeopleConnect, Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and TruePeopleSearch.
Why removed personal information reappears
Understand why removed personal information returns through new records, identity variants, relatives, search caches, and scope-limited opt-outs.
California privacy rights: deletion, opt-outs and DROP
Use California privacy rights and DROP accurately: choose a request, verify with minimal data, track deadlines, and understand exemptions.