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I wrote a script a while back to scrape people's public profiles based on Google searches like this. Two things I would add to the article:

1) You get a lot of false positives, even with very well constructed Google queries. Especially, for some reason, international users.

2) You don't actually get the person's phone number this way so you'll have to call the company's main number to reach them. This may be a problem if they don't pick up their office phone a lot -- and few people do.



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