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Recently I received an email with the subject title that reads something like "Steve sent you a friend request on Tagged :)". Since it came from someone I know, I naturally took a look at the email content. What it basically says was someone has added you as a friend on Tagged.com and the email looked like this:

My first question was whether this is a spam mail sent out by some kind of spyware or adware or even spammers. So I contacted the person whom the email supposedly came from, to find out if he did send that email. The answer was no. What actually happened was that he received the same email from someone else he knows, and out of curiosity he signed up at the sign up screen that looks like this:

I know there are other Search Engines besides Google Search. This is not an article to discuss which is better but rather to share a collection of the common as well as obscure Google Search tricks that one could use for everyday events.

Residential Phone Book

Google Search can be your online phonebook. You can search for phone number in the residential phonebook by putting rphonebook: in front of a name and city, state.
Eg. rphonebook:John Smith, Davis, CA will display all addresses and phone numbers of John Smiths in Davis, CA.