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Truecaller takes down the Recent Searches page that shouldn’t have existed to begin with

Truecaller says that it had a Recent Searches  page on its website to “enable better results for these web searches”. The company had taken down the page that was listing all searches made by its users around the world, after Medianama wrote about it on Tuesday. Initially Truecaller took down only the page that listed the numbers by country, while maintaining the separate country-specific pages. We then contacted the service to find out why the country specific pages were not taken down, following which those pages where also taken down. The company did not state why it had not taken these pages down earlier. The link now takes you to Truecaller homepage. Here's why Truecaller had a 'recent searches' page The company justified the existence of such a page by saying that many people still search for mobile numbers through web search engines. That basically means that it was there for better SEO. The company added that it listed only those numbers that were searched a higher amount of times and covered businesses, local restaurants, or even telemarketers, fraud, prank, etc. "By having these listed, people inputting those higher searched numbers into search engines, have an increased possibility of discovering the number they are looking for," the company stated. That being the case, it is still possible to see the details of specific numbers by using a standard URL template www.truecaller.com/in/+91{number} which makes it convenient for scrapers. The company however stated that the web searches are limited to 10 searches per day, and that Truecaller…

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