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Find Your Friends
Trying to find someone on the Internet can be a challenge simply because of the immensity of the information available. Yes, the very person you want may be mentioned somewhere -- but today there are over 800 million Web pages out there, and a "page" can be as large as a book. Fortunately, full text search engines allow you to find your friends in a haystack that size, quickly and simply. But first you need to learn how to use them properly.

  Tutorials
  Rare Names
  The Web's 800 million pages
  Practice: find yourself
  Phrases make words rare
  Catching variations
  Using wildcards
  Use everything you know
  Refining your search with must
  Refining with must not
  Checking newsgroups