| There are many great online searches that can help | | | | know, and then allow the site to search for you. Keep |
| you find someone that you have not seen nor heard | | | | in mind that just a name is going to bring up more |
| from in a very long time. You may even find | | | | general results. Add a state and a town, even if you |
| information on someone's phone number through | | | | aren't sure they are there any longer, and you are |
| some of these services. Many like to start with the | | | | going to get much more relevant results. |
| general searches like Google, MSN, or Yahoo, but | | | | You may indeed be pleased with what you find when |
| there are more specialized searches out there that | | | | you enter someone's name into the search. You can |
| deal with finding missing people without all of the | | | | find things here that you simply will not find when you |
| irrelevant results. One such site is Pipl. | | | | use other search engines. The matches to MySpace |
| What makes Pipl different from other search sites is | | | | profiles seem to be exact, and there are listings for |
| that it goes to what it calls the deep part of the World | | | | things like memberships in groups and even a listing for |
| Wide Web. It claims that there are many resources | | | | public records. You may have to pay for access to |
| that remain hidden to the major search engines for a | | | | the public records, but those could have the phone |
| variety of reasons, and that means the results never | | | | number that you seek. |
| come up. Some of this information may be deemed | | | | Pipl may not be much help if you don't know |
| private, and that means the big name bots will not | | | | someone's name. In that case, you can go find out |
| index that information. Pipl is different in that it does go | | | | who owns a phone number through a reverse phone |
| through this information, and then provides it to anyone | | | | search. Once you think you have a match, you can put |
| who conducts a search. | | | | your newly found name into Pipl to see if things seem |
| When you first log onto Pipl, you are going to see | | | | to sync up with what you know about the person you |
| boxes. These ask for first and last name, city, state, | | | | are searching for. |
| and country. You can fill in as much or as little as you | | | | |