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kcrossman
05-17-2005, 02:02 AM
Excluding online directory servies, - it would be interesting to see any page on the internet with my phone number.

For example, Paris Hilton might want to have a Google Alert set-up to make sure her private number is never on the internet.

To do a good job it, it seems this might be a bit of a difficult search query to form since there are so many formats for a phone number with special characters and with optional spaces, some obvious examples:

123 456 7890
123-456-7890
(123) 456-7890
123.456.7890
...

And even more interestingly - how about a way to extensively search the web for any form of a physical delivery address (not just the standardized USPS format).

Wanda ya think?

Chris_D
05-18-2005, 11:09 AM
Hi kcrossman - and welcome to the forums!

I'm not sure about you, but I promised Paris that I wouldn't ever publish her phone number on the web!

:)

Jokes aside - I think that you'll find that the top 10 search results for a 10 string number e.g 123 456 7890 provides pretty similar results as a search for the format 123-456-7890 Try it with a real countrycode-number combination and you'll see what I mean.

Getting standard formats for data isn't easy...