Commencing Your Search with Lycos

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Let's make our first stop at Lycos (http://www.lycos.com), where they contract with a purveyor of information called Pro CD.

Now how about that? Front and center on the very first Web page is People Find. If your friend's name is in a phone book somewhere in the U.S. or Canada, it's a good bet you'll find him or her here. These listings are updated quarterly (phone books just keep changing as, we all know). What are you waiting for? Point and click on that People Find icon!

Nothing very tricky about this one. Go ahead, enter the last name of your friend and then the first. If you know what city and state he or she is living in, go ahead and enter that too. For my own purposes, I shall go in search of myself. I've been meaning to find me for years and years. Might as well do it now, I suppose.


Ms. Manners Says�

There is a very good reason why I do not show you examples of the results screens here. In spite of the fact that the information that results from a search is public and you can easily find it on the search engines on the Web, it is considered very bad form to publish someone's phone or e-mail address to others. I won't publish them in this article, and you shouldn't publish them to others, whether that is through e-mail or news group postings. It is perfectly acceptable, however, for me to publish my own since that is my choice.


There are apparently four of me and we're all southerners. That's a comfort, at least. According to the list I get, I'm living in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. Well, I do live in North Carolina, but I don't live in Ellerbe�at least as far as I know. Obviously, I have a split personality. I need help, and I'm in luck! See, right there, at the bottom of the listings? FAQ and Help!

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Further Information

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