Throughout your life, you’ve made quite a few friends. You’ve maintained strong bonds with some. Others have gone their way.

It can be a joy to reconnect with lost friends. But how do you go about doing it? A great place to start is with a Web search. There is a vast amount of personal information on the Internet.

It could be as simple as putting a name in Google. But you’ll probably have better luck with more specialized searches. These sites are geared toward finding people.

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This site will also search social-networking profiles. In addition, it will search through several Google services. It may return images, documents, blogs, videos and news. All it takes is the person’s first and last name.                                                                    

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This service searches the deep Web. That is, it searches pages not often indexed by common search engines. You might get a phone number from online white pages. Or public information may contain an employment history. Even little clues could lead you in the right election.