Sams Teach Yourself the Internet in 24 Hours, Sixth Edition

Chapter 15. Finding People

Using mainly the search techniques you’ve picked up in the preceding hours, you can find people on the Internet—or rather, the email addresses, mailing addresses, or telephone numbers through which particular people can be reached.

This people-finding power is one of the Internet’s most valuable and controversial capabilities. Applied properly, it can aid research, locate missing persons, track down deadbeats delinquent in their child support payments, reunite old friends, and even help adult adoptees find their birth parents, if they so desire. When abused, this capability aids stalkers and overaggressive direct marketers. Unfortunately, as is always the case with freedom of information, there’s no practical way to preserve ...