2 Ways to Find People on Google+

2 Ways to Find People on Google+

Google+ is the next big thing on the social media platform, and based on the success of other such platforms such as Facebook and LinkedIn, the importance of your active existence on Google+ cannot be undermined. You can connect to your friends and people with similar interests on Google+ and share your knowledge, passion and interests. Already more than 10 million people have joined Google+, and this number is expected to grow exponentially with time. However, to many people’s surprise, the Google+ doesn’t have a search feature, Google’s ubiquitous prowess. However, there are tools available over the web that will help you in doing so.
You can find people who match your interest or your long lost friends whom you wish to establish contact again in two ways:
1. Using websites
a) Find People on Plus:
When we last visited the site it had indexed 14,536,129 people. The homepage displays the profiles of the most popular people on the web including, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Tim O’Reilly and other such noted personalities. What “Find People on Plus” offers you is a variety of filters, which can help you narrow down your search criteria and improves the efficiency of your search. You can search people based on their country, state, city, occupation, employer, education, gender, relationship, and other such parameters.

b) G Peep:
G Peep is another directory that lists Google+ users. You can add yourself to be searchable on G Peep. It helps you in finding people with similar interests. It also has an auto suggest feature like in Google and Facebook, which shows the results as soon as you hit the keyboard.
2. Boolean search on Google
Boolean search involves the use of certain strings that help you find things on search engine, which don’t show using plain English. An example of Boolean search would be searching for your fellow employees. Suppose if you work in Apple, then the string would be:
Site: plus.google.com working at Apple
This will list down all the profiles that are currently employed with Apple Inc. You can use a pipe i.e. “|”, which works like an OR condition in your search criteria. For example, if you are looking for a grocer in New York, Oregon, or New Jersey you would write it as:
Site: plus.google.com “grocer”(New York, Oregon, New Jersey)
Since you are searching user defined non-standardized data, you will have to use your imagination in determining what data he/she may have provided on his/her profile.
Similarly, there are other ways to exploit Google to get what you want; based on your knowledge and creativity you can hijack any data from Google Plus. Another trick is to look for people in already existing social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn to retrieve necessary information, and use it as a search parameter on Google.