Broadening Your Horizons (and Your Scope!)

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A quick click on help and�ah ha! I may need to broaden the scope of my search somewhat. I'm thinking that may be a good thing and a bad�what if there are more of me? Can I deal with that? Might as well get this over with. Broaden.

Back (quite literally, with the Back icon on the browser) to the listings and think about this. I'm sorry, but Brigman is definitely my last name and I don't want to know about the Brightons and the Briggers and the Brighmans. I don't mind too much finding the Lynns, Lynnes, Lyndas, Leslies�they're definitely not me. Clicking that Back icon again, I can re-enter the information for the search.

Tip:

Clicking on New Search takes you back to the Lycos home page. Save yourself a step and just back up once instead. If, however, you've run a search that gives you several results screens, use the New Search link to get you back to the Lycos home page, and then click on People Find again rather than using the Back button repeatedly.

So if I enter brigman as last name and l* (the * is a wildcard) as a first initial, I get 57 responses and what do you know? One of them is the me I know about! If I click on the address listing, I can view my location on a map, find out what businesses are in my area, learn more about my town, and even get directions to my place�well, I don't suppose I really need that. And I'm not sure you should really just drop in on that old friend of yours either. Call first. You've got the number now.