Welcome to Internet Investigator 2.0
Hey there! Since 1998 I've been an Internet investigator using online, or web based tools.
The first of these, Web Detective, appeared in 1995 when windows(reg) 95 came out and
The Internet was gradually picking up steam! Little did we know how long the journey was!
Web Detective was basically a large collection of links to web government records and
other privately provided investigative resources for the USA, Canada and the U.K.
The second investigative site to appear was the strikingly popular Net Detective in 1996
which went on to get over 750,000 registered users. It started as a downloadable software
program for windows(reg) which resembled a modern day E-Book and was neatly organized
using clear tabs to the different areas such as people search, background check, death index,
births and deaths, military records, criminal records, court records, property, etc.
In 2002 the company, HD Publishing, changed Net Detective on to a web based platform because
of problems with user registration, hackers, password generators and people losing their login data
but possibly even more so because you can deliver a broader range of data services from server
side systems than you can deliver from client-side software systems.
HD Publishing soon thereafter started purchasing multi gigabyte databases for in-house serving to
clients on The Internet for people search into well over 211 million U.S. citizens. From this point in
time the detective sites were more than simply a collection of bookmarks to other sites.
Recently we see the emergence of improved services powered by the C.I.S. system: Complete
Investigation Services, under various labels and brand names such as Webstigate. See the right side
panel of navigation to Government Records for a link to the Webstigate search system powered by
C.I.S. This is a highly expanded range of investigation services with many options and choices of
searchable databases that even professional law enforcement agents are now using in their daily
work.
So there has been a marked evolution of the online investigator people search systems. First they
were merely a collection of links or bookmarks in an ebook format or on the web, pointing to U.S.
Public Records such as county court records and bankruptcy files. There was advice about how
you can contact the FBI under the federal Freedom Of Information Act to review your own identification
record or rap sheet.
Next the Detective sites truly evolved into a wide ranging database searching system required by P.I.s
and professionals that activates thousands of discreet databases in an effort to return data such as a
subject's 20 year address history. See the navigation panel on the right hand side of this page for a
link to Government records to start your extensive information searching now or whenever you feel
completely ready ...
I hope you find what you're looking for!
Geoff Dodd
Perth 6000
Australia
Comments (1)
Geoff Dodd said
at 1:26 pm on Dec 8, 2008
This short article provides a brief history of the development of the online detective sites which have been immensely popular since 1995 when web detective first appeared on The Internet horizon.
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