  Whereas traditional search engines have assisted users in locating online information pertaining to the names of people and places, commercial/governmental/educational organizations and institutions, etc. (via a standard protocol involving HTTP addresses and HTML programming code), some search engines are now also capable of searching the Internet for certain kinds of “things” (or objects). Two of these search engines are Thingful and Shodan. Thingful describes itself as a “discoverable search engine” that provides users with “a unique geographical index of connected objects around the world” (https://thingful.net/). As such, Thingful boasts that it can index across multiple IoT networks and infrastructures. Because this search engine can locate the geographical position of objects and devices, some critics worry that Thingful can also easily access personal data regarding the ways in which users interact and communicate with their connected devices and objects (as in the case of a homeowner communicating with the “intelligent” objects in her smart home).