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I don't know much about this topic, but Bohemian people historically used both German and Czech variants of their names. These are currently not predicted by the name variant search tool.

One example is:
Dora Rudolfine Richter, also known as Dora Rudolfa Richterová

Run a search query in the background, load and render the results in a usable way.

Help wanted with UX design here as it's potentially a lot of information to deal with. Nested/collapsable lists? Tabs? What makes most sense for OSINT researchers?

Could be helpful

Multi-part names produce a high number of candidates (see below).

Perhaps setting defaults and options for how few or many are created might help control the volume.

Relates to issue #2

Make it easy to copy any name variant to the clipboard in one click.

Add a button or checkbox to toggle filters like "site:facebook.com" in the google search results.

Basically if you leave and come back, you have leftover google results but the input is cleared, so the page is sort of out of sync with itself until you enter a new search term.

So either don't show the google results until we have some selected names, OR cache the selected/suggested state across refreshes (using a cookie or localstorage?).

Low priority but nice to have. Mobile accessibility was cited as a "peripheral need" in a report on the user needs of fact checkers by NORDIS.

This is a great concept and would be very useful. However, the only variations I see are

• first name, last name
• first name initial, last name
• last name, first name

Should the tool be called name re-ordering vs variations? I assumed variations would show results like
Dmytro Firtash or Dmytrii or Dimitry
Igor Kolomoisky or Ihor or Kolomoiskii or Kolomoisky or Kolomoiskiy
etc.

And this is a very basic one:
Joe Biden or Joseph Biden

For example, if the transliteration module of the alias generator generates lots of names that I know are not relevant to my search, it would be helpful to have those split into a specific section (that could perhaps be collapsed, etc.)

Suggestions from social media feedback:

• Yandex > in my experience it works well if you can't find a name on any other search engine
• LinkedIn > but with warning that users can see profiles that search them
• Yahoo > sometimes yields interesting and rare results.

For example, a search for "Qasim Suleymany" should return:

• Qasem Soleimani
• Qassem Soleimani
• Qasim Sulemani
• etc.

this issue is for suggesting a button to clear the name variations suggestions, in this example I wanted to start a new name search. It can already be achieved by page reload but #14 also mentions that google results are cached.