Bing People search

Question

Using Bing SOAP services doing a search request if I set my SearchOptions as follows...

mySearchRequest.SearchOptions.ListingType =

ListingType.Person;

and then enter "Torres; Derby, KS" I get a list of people named Torres along with their address information, etc.

Who are these people?  How did they get in the database? Did these people register somehow?  I read about a Bing/Facebook connection.  Are these people facebook users?

Thanks, Dean

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Answer 1

They are unlikely to be Facebook users or any other online user.

 

There are many free databases containing address and phone information. Keep in mind that a local phone directory would also have name, address, and phone information freely and publicly available.

Answer 2

It's possible that these information came from the Bing Phonebook API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd251030.aspx

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