Whenever my phone shows a missed call from a number I don’t recognize, I’ll Google the number to figure out who called me. Lately, when I do this, the top result is something called Hodges Directory. This looks like it’s supposed to be another Internet people-finder, but all the names and numbers in it look fake and/or randomly generated—one of the missed-call numbers I had searched supposedly belongs to “Agatha Loveless.” I can’t find myself or a single person I know in it. There’s no explanatory information, and “Lorem ipsum” filler text is used in a couple of spots.
What is the point of this thing? I suppose it could be a fake directory site designed to deliver ads, but I’m baffled that it’s now the top result in Google when a phone number is searched.