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: INTERNET--Searching--People
- Ahoy: integrated tool for finding personal home pages, using OKRA, WhoWhere?, and Internet Address Finder; institutional database from Yahoo! (http://ahoy.cs.washington.edu:6060)
- 555-1212: look up area codes, country codes, email addresses, phone numbers and web sites by area code (http://www.555-1212.com)
- ATT 800: American Telephone and Telegraph Toll Free Directory (http://www.tollfree.att.net/dir800/)
- BigBook: directory of businesses, including maps, and user ratings (http://www.bigbook.com)
- BigFoot: search for people by name in a dabase of email addresses (http://www.bigfoot.com)
- BigYellow: online Yellow Pages and shopping directory containing names, addresses and telephone numbers of over 16 million businesses across the United States (http://www.bigyellow.com)
- ClassMates: find high school alumni and friends; upgraded membership requires a fee (http://www.classmates.com)
- Directory services: a collection of white pages servers to look up people (gopher://sipb.mit.edu/1B%3aInternet%20whois%20servers)
- Four11: Directory Services, a free and easy-to-use directory of online users and their e-mail addresses, from Four11 Directory Services (SLED) (http://www.four11.com)
- Global Yellow Pages: phone directories from around the world (http://www.globalyp.com/world.htm)
- Global X.500: gateway to directory services provided by many organizations (http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspgx500.html)
- GTE Superpages: interactive yellow pages from GTE (http://yp.gte.net)
- Home Pages/directories: a collection of personal home pages lists and directories (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/culture-people-lists.html)
- International Directories: a collection of white and yellow pages telephone directories available on the web for many countries in the world (http://www.infobel.be/infobel/infobelworld.html)
- IAF: Internet Address Finder, a comprehensive e-mail white pages on the Internet (http://www.iaf.net)
- InfoSpace: a directory of businesses, phones, yellow, blue, and white pages for US, Canda, and other countries; integration with mapping service (http://www.infospace.com)
- Knowbot: provides a uniform user interface to heterogeneous remote information services (Internic Point of contacts, MCImail, x500 databases, finger, nwhois, etc.) (telnet://info.cnri.reston.va.us:185)
- Lookup!: searching for email based on a database (http://www.lookup.com/search.html)
- Lycos People Find: you can look up a person to find their address and phone number (http://www.lycos.com/pplfndr.html)
- Metroscope: metropolitan area Web sites (http://www.metroscope.com)
- Netfind: a simple Internet `white pages' user directory (http://www.december.com/net/tools/nir-utilities-netfind.html)
- Netpages: a phone-book style directory for the Internet, from Aldea Communications, Inc. (http://www.aldea.com/wwwindex.html)
- OKRA: a directory of people on the Net; search by name, keyword, organization, or keyword; you can register your entry (http://okra.ucr.edu/okra/)
- PeopleLink: notifies you when people you know are online and lets you communicate with them instantly; like real-time email or your own private chat room (http://www.peoplelink.com)
- SearchAmerica: searches databases for residential and business data; includes directory assistances and searching by name, address, or phone number; requires registration (http://www.searchamerica.com)
- Searching for people: a collection of resources to help you locate a specific person on the net (gopher://yaleinfo.yale.edu:7700/11/Internet-People)
- Switchboard: A database of names of individuals and businesses, with phone numbers and postal addresses; users can add their electronic mail address or a URL to their listing; very extensive (over 90 million entries) and nationwide; excellent for finding people who have telephones (those old-fashioned devices with keypads on them that people used to talk through to communicate with each other) (http://www.switchboard.com)
- US West Yellow Pages: (http://yp.uswest.com)
- US West White Pages: (http://usw.four11.com)
- Usenet: find people based on their Usenet posts (http://usenet-addresses.mit.edu)
- WhoWhere?: a comprehensive service for locating people and organizations on the Net; this is a vast collection--it will give you a lot of hits on a name; this is the directory to use for finding people who have an email account or a telephone (http://www.whowhere.com)
- Zip2: search for businesses by category, business name, city, by map area, or by distance from any location (http://www.zip2.com)
You can find people on the Net through directories of white pages (which now include Internet-accessible telephone databases) and yellow pages (which commonly list businesses based on subject, topic, or product categories). These resources should help you find nearly anyone who has either an email address or a telephone.