Find
People Free?
Use these free online forms to search for people and
information.
One
good place to search for people is in the free Telco
phone directories. Follow the link to the find people
page and search for people there.
Try
the Whowhere
search to lookup email addresses.
Search
the news groups for the persons name contained in
postings.
Search
engines
The Net's search engines- there sure are plenty of
them. In the old days we used something called an
index. But the fact is, search engines, as difficult
as they can be to get a good result, are an important
and helpful part of our life.
Selecting
The difficult part is choosing which search engine is
right for your job.
Which
one do you use for your search? Well, it depends on
what you are searching for.
The
best
Here are the best suggestions available... AltaVista.
You've surely heard of this serach engine.
AltaVista
is the largest search engine on the internet. It sends
out spiders to search for every page available.
Unfortunately,
while every page is here, you often get a few too many
results. It is definately one of the best, though.
About.com If you are searching for a particular topic,
such as panic attack disorder, Internet for Beginners,
then About.com is for you.
It
contains articles as well as links to give you a
background about the subject you are looking for. It
also contains refernced links to other sites for more
information about your serch.
Ask
Jeeves If you want to ask a question, Ask Jeeves is
the search engine for this. You ask it real questions,
such as how do dolphins sleep? and it comes back with
a list of places to look to find the answer.
You
need to look at the options it provides, and choose
the best one, but it usually comes up with the goods.
How
search engines work.
Each
search engine gathers its information differently.
Some, such as AltaVista, use 'robots' to index the
pages, without human interaction.
Goto
uses the actual webmasters to input the information
(and then makes them pay for the privilige).
Other
serch engines such as Yahoo or the open directory use
real people to index the internet's sites.
This
means they will be more relevant, but for some reason,
Yahoo never seems to be able to display what I want.
They are big if you are searching for a company.
Apart
from the main searches, there are some specialist
search engines too. Some of these are listed here.
Want
to go shopping?
If
you are looking for a shopping site, or the best site
for commercial topics, then use the GoTo search
engine.
Goto
gets people to pay for their entries, so often it is
the better online companies with money to spare
advertising here.
You
get to see exactly how much they pay for you to click
on them, so you know how much your sale is worth. goto
goto.com here.
People
searches
There
are also pay options to locate peple for free, try
USSearch for information on this type of service if
the free options on these pages don't get your results
.
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