BAD!!! You have to check this out!!!

[catland]

it only gave us the reverse directory information. But we don't list our address in the phone book and use our initial instead of our first name.

Then I typed in CATLAND and found some really fun stuff!

[sisterdog]

Haha. It came up with the reverse directory stuff, but listed my last name the same as my partner's instead of my own.

[Karen]

When I wanted to reach KayAnn one day, and wasn't sure she'd get an email in time, I was able to find her phone number because I had her name and address from the Christmas Card list from two years ago. I might have even been able to get it the old-fashioned way through an operator, but I found a few matches on Switchboard.com, and guessed right first try! I had to explain to KayAnn's Dad, who was a little (justifiably) suspicious just who I was, but that's okay. That's just how dads SHOULD be when a stranger calls asking for their kid!

We use that Google feature at work somtimes, when people give us a phone number, but no address, and we need to mail something to them. It's far easier than phone tag. It is also handy, just like reverse phone directories, when you've written down a phone number, and later can't remember whose it is!

[Jessica12345]

Originally posted by Karen
when you've written down a phone number, and later can't remember whose it is!

I do that *a lot*! lol

[AmberLee]

Hmmm. Mine showed my initials, city, state and zip.

My parents had all their info though, AND also listed them as providing tennis lessons for one of their cities largest parks and rec departments! I wonder if that's why Mom's been driven buggy by wrong numbers? (Dad doesn't answer the phone except once in a blue moon )

[Ann]

Didn't work for me either, guess it only applies to USA residents.

However, I don't think it's Google's database. I think it's Yahoo's online phonebook or whatever it's called... It's quite useful actually, my boyfriend couldn't remember his grandma's phone number over in the states so he just looked it up there by searching for her last name.