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Search Lost Relatives..
Recently my wife's sister got curious regarding what had happened to her first husband after they got separated. That marriage had ended badly and they hadn't been in touch for nearly thirty years. She tried searching for her ex-husband's name on Google and Yahoo but didn't get any hits. Knowing I do research online in my work as a qualified writer, she asked if I could discover anything.
I write for business and technical publications, therefore I use several high-priced databases for comprehensive research. But I recommended she try a simpler alternative - a solution I use myself when I want to search for someone quickly and without difficulty. I recommended she try one of the people search database services. Even the better ones charge so little, they're practically free. Most offer a trial period. I gave her the name of one to try.
She was uncertain. She's not very comfortable using her computer for much more than email. Her stab at the search engines had by now left her upset. Now she was going to have to "sign up for something and learn something entirely new... oh my goodness," was the way she put it.
Yet, later the same day I suggested it, she emailed back excitedly. In a few minutes, she'd found out all kinds of information about her ex. It turned out that he'd done something of a turnaround after they'd got separated. Their separation resulted from fights over his severe drinking problem. After they broke up, though, he'd eventually gone back to med school, gotten his MD and become an orthopedic doctor. He'd even been instrumental in developing some sort of device used by other physicians in his field.
Unluckily, the poor fellow had passed, but at least my sister-in-law discovered comfort in knowing that things had worked out for him inspite of everything. She remarked that even though their relationship ended in the worst imaginable way, it had began from a good point. She said she hadn't really wanted to contact him. She just wished to know what had happened to him.
Sometimes all we want is only to satisfy our curiosity about what happened to someone we've lost track of. Majority of us have an old friend or acquaintance we still think about.
A Better Way to Find People
I suspect that's what makes people searching so hot. As many as half a million times a month, someone searches on Google alone, searching for a way to find a lost person. Whether it's someone from the past with whom we've lost touch, or somebody we met last weekend and yearn to see again, were always searching for others.
Regrettably, most general searches fail. Just like Googling failed for my sister-in-law. The information is out there, somewhere. But being forced to sift through so many unrelated results makes it almost impossible.
By the way - most searchers don't know this - search engine results don't actually extend beyond about a thousand entries. Also when the search engine results page says they found millions and millions of hits, they don't actually bother to dig it up and provide you access to all of it. They're really just estimating from their own database tables. Even they understand it's a waste of time.
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