Monday Contest!

[Irina Shamaeva]

Here is a mini-contest for all of you, Internet Sourcers.

I have a business email address [e-mail]. I also have another email address that I have used since 1991. What is it? The first person who reaches me at that address will be featured on the network and can attend one of my webinars free of charge (see some posted in the Events section https://booleanstrings.ning.com/events). To be eligible, you must have never emailed me at this other address.

Irina

[Irina Shamaeva]

And the winner is...

Charley Clough!

Charley writes: "I am an Office/Knowledge Manager for PrincetonOne Minneapolis location. I joined the Boolean Strings group on LinkedIn to hopefully become a better resourcer and to see if there was other ways to obtain email address and contact names that are seemingly not optional to the average "type and search" into google locater.
It have learned a lot and believe that there is much more out there to learn : )"

Congratulations! Charley is featured here on the network and she will be attending the People and Company Research Webinar.

Here are other people who came up with the right answer pretty soon after Charley did:

Rithesh Nair
Jeremy Langhans (Jeremy found a clear path to the answer - including finding the only page on the Internet where this address is actually mentioned)
Adam Fenstermaker (Adam sent me the actual Boolean strings that worked)
Val Masias
Suzy Tonini

Hope you enjoyed it! Watch for more contests coming up soon.

Irina

[gary cozin]

Congrats all=

Irina - Maybe you can show the group the string or logic on how it was found so the group can learn?

Irina Shamaeva said:

And the winner is...

Charley Clough!

Charley writes: "I am an Office/Knowledge Manager for PrincetonOne Minneapolis location. I joined the Boolean Strings group on LinkedIn to hopefully become a better resourcer and to see if there was other ways to obtain email address and contact names that are seemingly not optional to the average "type and search" into google locater.
It have learned a lot and believe that there is much more out there to learn : )"

Congratulations! Charley is featured here on the network and she will be attending the People and Company Research Webinar.

Here are other people who came up with the right answer pretty soon after Charley did:

Rithesh Nair
Jeremy Langhans (Jeremy found a clear path to the answer - including finding the only page on the Internet where this address is actually mentioned)
Adam Fenstermaker (Adam sent me the actual Boolean strings that worked)
Val Masias
Suzy Tonini

Hope you enjoyed it! Watch for more contests coming up soon.

Irina

[Irina Shamaeva]

Sure, Gary.

Here are the explanations I got. Most people got my address out of "whois" queries (that reveal who is behind domain names). I used that email address to register the websites I own. Some people guessed this is "the" address and stopped there. (I should have asked for some evidence that I had the address in 1991 in the contest :))

A few people looked on my LinkedIn profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/irinashamaeva and either created/guessed the address using my job listed for 1991 (and it's irina@"company domain name"), or confirmed the address they had found with whois.

Jeremy also searched for it and found the only page on Google with this address - which was my post about finding a babysitter for my son back in 2006. :)

gary cozin said:

Congrats all=

Irina - Maybe you can show the group the string or logic on how it was found so the group can learn.

[gary cozin]

Great ideas, thanks!

Irina Shamaeva said:

Sure, Gary.

Here are the explanations I got. Most people got my address out of "whois" queries (that reveal who is behind domain names). I used that email address to register the websites I own. Some people guessed this is "the" address and stopped there. (I should have asked for some evidence that I had the address in 1991 in the contest :))

A few people looked on my LinkedIn profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/irinashamaeva and either created/guessed the address using my job listed for 1991 (and it's irina@"company domain name"), or confirmed the address they had found with whois.

Jeremy also searched for it and found the only page on Google with this address - which was my post about finding a babysitter for my son back in 2006. :)

gary cozin said:

Congrats all=

Irina - Maybe you can show the group the string or logic on how it was found so the group can learn.

[Manick Paul]

Hi Irina,

As per your clarification I made the Key and found the exact the only page. Its a posting for Babysitter on 2006 at 11.45. I m not mentioning any other details over here. But I didn't expected that it would be a previous employer ID. Thought of any personal ID as I know that after separation from any employer the ID should be closed.

Thanks for your clarification...

Regards
Manick

[Kameron Swinton]

Another way you could have found this was to find Irina's phone number thru zabasearch and then go back to google use the phonenumber and Irina.

-kameron

[Irina Shamaeva]

Manick,

Right. This was a sign of friendship :)
I don't think anybody had "personal" email addresses back in 1991.

Manick Paul said:

Hi Irina,

As per your clarification I made the Key and found the exact the only page. Its a posting for Babysitter on 2006 at 11.45. I m not mentioning any other details over here. But I didn't expected that it would be a previous employer ID. Thought of any personal ID as I know that after separation from any employer the ID should be closed.

Thanks for your clarification...

Regards
Manick

[Rosemary Menna]

Irina Shamaeva said:

Manick,

Right. This was a sign of friendship :)
I don't think anybody had "personal" email addresses back in 1991.

Manick Paul said:

Hi Irina,

As per your clarification I made the Key and found the exact the only page. Its a posting for Babysitter on 2006 at 11.45. I m not mentioning any other details over here. But I didn't expected that it would be a previous employer ID. Thought of any personal ID as I know that after separation from any employer the ID should be closed.

Thanks for your clarification...

Regards
Manick

[Rosemary Menna]

O.K. I'm not as quick as some of my awesome sourcing colleagues on this forum, but I never give up and I finally found Irina's other email address. Just wanted to share my track of finding it.
I went to Pipl.com, typed in Irina's name and went through the results. Came to "publications" and searched for any dates in the 1990's. Came to a post from April 20, 1994 where she advertised for a camera. There was an email listed with the name of the company she worked for at that time, so I thought I found it but when I emailed to that exact post address it came back. I knew I was on the right path so I went to google and played with various versions of the email address (using her work domain at that time) in the google search box. A few of the versions came up with "0" results until I finally hit the right one. Now I realize I probably made it harder on myself then I needed to, but learned that searching "deep web" sites like Pipl will give us inside information that Google or Yahoo may not offer.