In a recent poll of Skip Smasher's customers, 97% indicated it would be helpful to have people photos appear in search results. This is now possible for all phone lookups
with the site's new "See Photo" feature.
HOW IT WORKS: When a Skip Smasher customer runs any reverse phone lookup (for cells, landline or VOIP), the search results include possible names and addresses. Each record
now has a blue "See Photo" button that, when clicked, conducts a search of billions of online photos to accurately find one or more for the specific person identified in the record.
The new "See Photo" feature arises out of a long term project at Skip Smasher to build a search engine that matches investigative search results with online people photos from
social networks. "There's billions of people search data records in the world and there's billions of online photos. We think we've finally broken the wall between the two by building
a search engine to connect them together," says Robert Scott, Skip Smasher founder and CEO.
Some of the expected uses of the "See Photo" feature include:
PROCESS SERVING: Enables process servers to have a photo of the party to be served, increasing "right party" contact and service.
PRE-SURVEILLANCE: Enables field investigators to arrive on-location with a photo of the surveillance subject, increasing the chances for a successful surveillance.
WITNESS LOCATES: Enables investigators to locate and contact the right party for witness interviews.
THREAT ASSESSMENT: Provides security personnel with a photo of person's who represent a possible threat to people and organizations.
REPO: Provides field agents with an identifying photo of vehicle owners for door-knocks and stake-outs.
Skip Smasher will be applying its new "See Photo" feature to its other data lookups in the near future. "We're just getting started matching people photos to investigative data. In the near
future we anticipate doing the same thing with all types of people data from people searches to criminal records. Putting a face on data is huge for our customers because it helps ensure they
have right-party identification when they go out in the real world, like to find and interview a witness," says Scott, who is also a licensed Private Investigator. "I think even the old timers
will be impressed with how this technology will work to make their job easier."
