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How the sweep works

The plan is fixed and enumerated rather than improvised, and every result records which query found it. That is the whole point. A search you make up as you go along returns a confident, incomplete answer, and an incomplete answer here is worse than none.

  1. 01

    The bare name

    This is the query that gets skipped. A search built only around what you already suspect finds what you already knew and misses the record nobody told you about. It runs first, quoted and unquoted, because those return different pages.

    For Jane Doe of Austin, TX, running Doe Consulting, this tier runs 2 queries:

    • "Jane Doe"
    • Jane Doe
  2. 02

    Name plus disambiguators

    Your city, your state, a middle initial. These pull up pages the bare name buries under a more famous namesake, and they are what separate your record from someone else's.

    For Jane Doe of Austin, TX, running Doe Consulting, this tier runs 3 queries:

    • "Jane Doe" Austin
    • "Jane Doe" TX
    • "Jane Doe" Austin TX
  3. 03

    A direct question to all 48 aggregators

    Court and people-search sites rank badly for the names they publish. Waiting for Google to surface them is how a docket page sits at the top of page one for months without anyone noticing. Asking each site directly is the difference between finding two court matters and finding seven.

    For Jane Doe of Austin, TX, running Doe Consulting, this tier runs 48 queries:

    • site:intelius.com "Jane Doe"
    • site:truthfinder.com "Jane Doe"
    • site:instantcheckmate.com "Jane Doe"
    • site:ussearch.com "Jane Doe"
    • site:classmates.com "Jane Doe"
    • and 43 more
  4. 04

    Discovery terms

    Lawsuit, complaint, refund, warning. These are terms that tend to sit near pages worth reading, not accusations. A hit means look, not that the page is bad.

    For Jane Doe of Austin, TX, running Doe Consulting, this tier runs 12 queries:

    • "Jane Doe" lawsuit
    • "Jane Doe" court
    • "Jane Doe" complaint
    • "Jane Doe" arrested
    • "Jane Doe" fraud
    • and 7 more
  5. 05

    Your companies and handles

    A page about your business names you even when a name search never surfaces it. This is the tier that catches what a diligence search would find.

    For Jane Doe of Austin, TX, running Doe Consulting, this tier runs 2 queries:

    • "Doe Consulting"
    • "Doe Consulting" "Jane Doe"

Then the flags

Each result gets a sentiment flag from a keyword heuristic, and the exact words that produced it are shown alongside. The bias is toward flagging too much rather than too little: a false flag costs you a glance, a missed one leaves a damaging page sitting at the bottom of the list. Structural signals outweigh words, so a court aggregator page is flagged regardless of how neutrally it happens to read. You can relabel anything in one click, and your label survives every rescan.

Then the requests

For sources with a verified route, the request is drafted and the form URL is built for that specific record. You press submit, because the attestation is yours to make and the confirmation email lands in your inbox. That confirmation step is where most removal requests quietly die, so it is tracked as its own status rather than assumed.

Sources that only suppress temporarily are marked as such, with the expiry tracked, so a record does not reappear six months later without warning.