In this video, we're going to take a look at business searches.
So if your target happens to be a business, these are going to be some tools and techniques that you
can employ to help you with your own search.
So first off, if you're doing a lesson on a business, you'll want to take a look at their website.
Company website, if they have one.
Things you want to look for on their website are going to be the U, r, l, and you'll want to take
a look at if there's a company directory.
So take a look at names.
Employee names.
Positions.
Do they have a news section?
Do you have a photo gallery?
Do they have a forum?
Telephone numbers?
Calendars.
If they do have photos posted, you want to take a look at what you could find in those photos?
Does it show the server room?
Does it show the layout they're building?
Does it have to show things like operating systems?
Or if you get lucky, maybe it will have a photo, you know, a sticky note on the monitor that has
a password on there.
Does the photo contain metadata in there, things like geolocation and other information that that might
be relevant?
Do they have a Twitter or Facebook page?
If they do, you want to check those out also.
So things like that you want to take a look at for company websites.
Another thing you could do is each state should have some sort of business search page.
So this page up here I have is for California and that can be found at Business Search, dot S.O.S.,
dot CAA, Dot Jovi, forge slash CBS.
So on this site, it's publicly available information.
So you could search by corporation name, LP, LLC and any number in your search criteria.
So a while back, I was actually doing an ocean search on a company that I felt was a little, little
questionable.
And so I was able to use this site and.
And this is basically what would all pull up so they can zoom in a little bit on here.
Here we go.
So I redacted some of the information on here.
So things that you could find on here is the date that they filed the corporation name street address.
Now, down here is actually information that actually came in really handy for me in determining.
How this company was being operated.
So down in here, you could enlist the WHO registered as a chief executive officer, the secretary,
chief financial officer and other directors of the company.
So my particular case, I did find some names on there that actually came up as a conflict of interest.
So again, doing a business search came in extraordinarily handy.
And this is again, this is all publicly available information.
Other places you can go to find more information out about companies is.
Biz Pedia founded by a PDP Viacom engineering the company name the city name and the student province
to get more information.
And another great place that has a lot of public information, a lot of companies registered with the
Better Business Bureau.
So you could actually use this to find more information about that company complaints, reviews, things
like that, potentially find more information and build a bigger picture about that particular company.
So again, this was about business searches.
Thank you.