Finding Out Who Called You Has Not Been So Easy As It Is Now

A world comprising of close to 8 billion people with every individual knowing on an average 200-300 people and just as acquaintances combined means there is a colossal number of unknown people for every person residing in this huge world. As a consequence, getting in contact by any of the people existing in this humongous list often leaves a person confused and bewildered to an extent, and in the end leaving them thinking of whoever it was that contacted them and as is the human nature, instinct kicks in leading people wanting to know more about the completely random person that just contacted them. Question is, what is the most pertinent solution to satisfy this natural itch. With science and technology so advanced these days, it is nothing unheard of and nothing impractical to imagine, it is not really hard to assume that such a technology exists which can give a rough estimate about the stranger that just made us question the intents and identity of the person. And to make life easier, such a technology does exist that comes under the umbrella of a technology named reverse phone lookup which is as simple as it gets. Punch in the phone number into a directory and the client-side server looks it up into its database. If the same exists, it fetches it and displays it to the user or else displays null or no data as the output. So, let us take a brief insight into some of these:

Search Engines Always Helped to Find Who Called You

Search engines are the most natural source of answers to all possible questions that can possibly arise in the random minds of every random person out there in the world. A company that exists totally on the foundation and on works purely on the belief of technology for mankind, it is highly unnatural to hear of bleeding edge technology and Google is not in the race for the same. Which is why it should be no shock or surprise to see Google on the charts of companies that have come up with solutions to the white pages reverse phone lookup problem.

With a vast area of clusters, networks, and servers available with what is one of the biggest tech giants in the world, it should be a piece of cake for a company such as Google to come up with and deliver the required hands-on technology considering the number of resources that Google has at its disposal. And which is probably the reason why Google was able to come up with the demands and the needs of the people to figure out and identify the person who just phoned or contacted them. A meagre 1.5-2 years of R&D was all that took to launch the service into the market and make it available to the entire world as an entity on its public domain absolutely free of cost. All that was required was the phone number as the only requisite input and bingo. A rough identity of your unknown caller just pops up like that highlighting the name, address and the postal code of the same. But because this output was based on various different phone directories that spanned various countries spread across the width of the globe, it became more of a matter of hit and trial while making a rough guess as to whether you know the person or not. Simply because different directories of different nations brought together at a single place meant that a single phone number became a representation of at least 10-15 people in physical numbers making it quite vague to pinpoint the actual user who attempted to contact you. Various algorithms and artificial learning technologies were inculcated with the same to make the final output progress a little more sophisticated and accurate. However, a humongous number of people logging in and enquiring about various phone numbers made it tedious for the people at Google to handle a technical term known as "load balancing" and keep their servers maintained in the desired conditions for smooth and hassle-less working of the phone lookup technology as was invented by Google, which ultimately led to the demise of the same somewhere in the early 2010's.

The Very Beginning of The Truecaller

One of the other major company that came with some of the major and best technologies that we have experienced till date, Blackberry is a name that used to define class when it came to mobile phones, connectivity, technology and what not. Even though it saw its demise, in its prime, Blackberry realized and understood it at the perfect time that one of its major competitors - Google is soon bound to see its decline in the reverse lookup technology field.

Consequently, it began working to come up with another sophisticated way that would handle the same requests and needs of people to find out whose number is this. But resources proved to be a major hurdle for them which is why all their work was sold off to Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam - a Sweden based company that ultimately came up with a near perfect solution to the lookup problem that is used till date. A technology that came to be known as "Truecaller" which celebrates almost 9 years of success as of now.

The only thing it differs from the Google solution is the need of a valid and working phone number to simply validate a user and store it in the database with the name that the user gives in while creating their profile. The best part about it is its ability to automatically sync up with your social media account and phonebook contacts that is automatically shared with any of your friend when they try to access the details of the same phone number, which probably acts as the backbone of the tool. That is because in the world of social media, we are knowingly or unknowingly connected to totally unknown people and a vast number of people which leads to better automation and precision of the final output. This can clearly be seen by the fact that very rarely it happens that a number searched on the truecaller platform does not return any identity on the final output. A fully developed app that keeps getting regular updates, and that searches the truecaller database for literally every unknown number (in terms of their phonebook) that a user tries to contact, or when a user is contacted, and return their identity to the end user provided they are connected to the Internet, makes it the best and the most loved solution to the reverse lookup problem in the real world.