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Issue date: Feb 27, 2000
Last week's Best of the Web
Best of the
Web
Cyber-sleuthing: Find anyone
Want to e-mail Matt Damon? Curious about an ex-flame? The World
Wide Web, a remarkably resourceful tracker, can help.
For varying fees, search specialists will query public-records
databases to help you find the person you're seeking.
1800ussearch.com
To find people outside the United States, this site has links
to Yellow Pages, White Pages, business directories, e-mail listings
and fax directories from more than 150 countries.
teldir.com
Just choose your school and year of graduation to search for former
high school classmates.
alumni.net
An all-in-one search site with links to hundreds of search and
database sites to find e-mail and postal addresses for everybody
from classmates to celebrities, and information on missing persons
and ancestors.
www.nedsite.nl/search/people.htm
Search by any combination of first or last name, city and state
to find an address, phone number and e-mail address.
switchboard.com
Search by school to find e-mail addresses for undergraduate and
graduate students, faculty and staff at many colleges and universities.
www.qucis.queensu.ca/FAQs/college-email/college.html
A time saver if you need an e-mail address. This site searches
many mega-databases at the same time. mesa.rrzn.uni-hannover.de
l Search the Reunion Registry to find any lost birth relatives.
adoption.com/reunite
My Web: Jeff
Bezos
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, 35, is, needless to say, a fan
of doing business on the Web. But he knows there's more to life
than e-commerce:
"Perpetual bubblewrap ... simply run your mouse over [it] and
pop."
www.urban75.com/Mag/bubble.html
For "amazing photography," a site that's "great for kids as well
as adults."
nationalgeographic.com
"Where else can you see a galactic collision through the Hubble
telescope?"
nasa.gov
"All of America's roadside attractions." This week's featured
site: the Superman museum in Metropolis, Ill., with more than 20,000
items on display.
roadsideamerica.com
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