Phonebook Results from Google

I learned something interesting the other day. If you type a phone number into the search box on Google, it lists the person's name and address, and has a link to a Google map showing that address. I tried it out with my home phone number as well as several other phone numbers and it worked each time. (It did not work for my cell phone number, however.)

Drew and Gracie are still too young to use the Internet, but I find it a little bit scary that if in the future they give out even so little information as their phone number, a person could potentially find our name and address and even have a map to our home.

If you click on the Phonebook results link in the Google search results, it does have a link to request to remove your name from the list. I'm sure there are other places on the Internet besides Google that allow you to look up a name to go with a phone number, but I still found it startling that this information is so easy to find.