Web/News Search
Ferretly will perform a web/news search when it runs a social media background check if you chose to include web/news in your settings/report profile.
Ferretly will perform a surface web scan across billions of indexed sites for matches for your subject. In general, it will use your subject's full name in the search criteria and location when performing the search only the top 24 most relevant articles will be returned. Ferretly uses natural language processing to analyze each web article to discover identifiers and attempts to match against subject properties. Depending upon the makeup and number of matches, Ferretly will classify each article as either High, Medium, or Low confidence.
The following identifiers are used. Name, email, profile picture/image, social media profile, location, phone, alias, age/DOB, company, college and high school.
You can also include keywords in your web/news search by clicking the web icon indicator in keyword settings for the keywords you want to include.
Ferretly automatically adjusts for names e.g., if your subject has a first, middle, and last name, then Ferretly will include the full name along with the alternate first and last name combinations in the search string. Similarly, Ferretly will include any alias names you included in the Alias subject property when you entered your subject.
For more information on web/news see Frequently Asked Questions.