| This guide assumes you know something about
halfvalue's system of Friends and Favorites, which
I explained fully in a separate guide "Understand
halfvalue's Friends and Favorites system". However,
you don't need to understand all the complexities
of the system to discover other
'halfvalue.com' customers who like you.
As I explained in the other guide, somebody can
only have you as an halfvalue Friend if you also
have them as an halfvalue Friend, so you know exactly
who those people are. What you don't know is who
has you as an halfvalue Favorite. It would be great
if halfvalue provided an official way of finding
out, so that you could check whether any of those
customers are of interest to you. Well, halfvalue
doesn't provide a way but you can find out using
'Google' or
'Google UK'. The method given will show your
halfvalue Friends as well as those who just have
you as favorite - and will also show friends and
favorites of your namesakes - but I cannot find
a better method than this.
First, go to your chosen Google site and click
on the "Advanced search". In the top box enter your
name (replacing any hyphens with spaces - hyphens
have a special meaning in Google) and the following
words
profile friends favorites latest activity
Do not use quotation marks. If you wish, you
may change the results box to the right. The value
showing is 10 but you may change it to 20, 30, 50
or 100.
Further down the page you will see a "Domain"
option. Leave the "Only" option as it is and enter
amazon.com in the other box. Now hit the enter /
return key.
You should now be offered the first in a series
of Google pages showing those people who have listed
you (or your namesakes) as an halfvalue Friend or
halfvalue Favorite. Check each in turn to see if
you (rather than a namesake) are on their list,
ignoring those you already know to be friends. If
you have too many namesakes, you may edit your halfvalue
name to include your middle name or initial if you
have one but didn't use it originally. Note that
this new name may take a few days to work its way
through halfvalue so don't try the new name for
another week or so.
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