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Weblogs
Blogs may indeed mention people that traditional sources miss. Blogs are better
than traditional search engines for finding people whose names just surfaced in the
news. See the blogsearch section for the best blog search engines.
News Search Engines
These are great for timely searching, which means they may be the best source of
information on someone who has recently gained his/her fifteen minutes of fame. As
with USENET groups, news searching is amenable to date/time order because news
stories, unlike web pages, have dates and times associated with them. They are not
generally good for historical research, i.e., more than one to three months old. There
are numerous excellent news search engines detailed in the News Search Section.
Online Telephone Directories
Telephone directories may be useful or merely frustrating. Despite the drawbacks of
many telephone directories, some are quite good. More and more cities and even
whole countries are putting their white and yellow pages on line, often with flexible
lookups, including reverse lookup. Check a country's search engines and directories
for listings of telephone directories. Information on finding and using telephone
directories on the web is available in the Telephone and Fax Directories section.
Email Directories
While these remain spotty and often unreliable, do not overlook this potential source
of information that is growing and improving all the time. Information on finding and
using email directories on the web is available in the Email Lookups section.
Recommended People Finder Websites
I have tried to give you some idea of the types of information and links you will
encounter at people finder websites so you won't be surprised or become
discouraged if they do not turn out to be all they claim. Still, you will have to sift
through a lot of silt and sand to find the nuggets, but they are there. I think these are
the best general sites for getting started looking for people.
Pandia People Search
http://www.pandia.com/people/
I would start here. One of the best web search sites for locating people, Pandia
Search has a terrific section on people search that includes both metasearch
interfaces as well as many links to the best people finder resources.
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