Searching for Personal InformationAnd Home Pages
When you're looking for information about a particular person, you probably want more than just an address and phone number. This is where a standard Google web search on that person's name makes sense; if anything has been publicly written about or by that person online, Google will know. Just make sure you use the exact phrase operator by enclosing the person's name in quotation marks, like this: "michael miller". You may also want to search for variations on the person's name, such as "mike miller" or "m miller".
Another trick is to find out if a person has a personal home page. You can do this with a little understanding of personal behavior and standard web design, and by manipulating Google's available search operators. In this instance, you want to search for the phrase "home page" and the person's name in a web page's title, which is where it's put by most HTML editing programs. You do this by using the allintitle: operator, as first discussed in Chapter 2, "Searching the Web." The resulting query should look something like allintitle: michael miller home page, as shown in Figure 4.9.
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