Why is Bighound showing me someone who isn't me?
Because the alternative is worse.
The trade
Section titled “The trade”Every match is a judgement under uncertainty. Get it wrong one way and you file a removal for a stranger. Get it wrong the other way and you leave a real exposure standing, believing you’re clean.
We are deliberately biased toward showing you too much. A finding you dismiss in two seconds costs you two seconds. A finding we hid costs you the thing you came here to prevent.
How findings are ranked
Section titled “How findings are ranked”- Confirmed — a unique identifier matched verbatim (email, phone, username), or your name matched along with your city or your age. Two people don’t share an email address.
- Probable — full name plus one corroborating detail.
- Needs review — name alone. Usually a namesake. Hidden by default, never deleted.
Every finding tells you which fields matched, so you can judge it rather than trust us.
Making it sharper
Section titled “Making it sharper”Add a birth year. Broker listings print an age, and it’s the one field that separates people who share a name and a town — a father and son at the same address will otherwise look identical to us.
With a birth year on file, a listing whose age is off by more than a couple of years is pushed down to “needs review” no matter how well the rest matches. That’s the single biggest improvement you can make to your own results.
Why not just use AI for this?
Section titled “Why not just use AI for this?”Because you’d have no way to check it. Our scoring is a plain function of your fields and the text on the page — reproducible, explainable, and testable. When Bighound says a finding matched your city and your age, that’s a fact you can verify, not a model’s opinion.