| 摘要 |
Network information is stored for different services in different private databases. Users of a particular service may search, through documented APIs, web interfaces, or other means, that service's database for social network information, typically providing account credentials to authenticate themselves in order to gain search results. This invention enables users store their various network credentials in a third party service. Users of this third party service may submit queries to the service containing some identifying information about an individual, organization, or group; or identifying information about a product or service; or similarly stored private data. The third party service searches for identifying information that may be stored across that user's various networks through public and private APIs, by simulating a normal browser-based search, or by other means, typically assuming the identity of the searching user on each service. Prior to search, the third party service scans the user's computing device, indexes the results and uses the information to return results with the highest-degree of accuracy.
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