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Using Yahoo! People Search To Search For A Phone Number
May 23, 2008 |
There are many great tools online that you can use to find information. Search engines are great no matter what you seek, but some queries require a more specialized kind of search. When looking for a person, for example, you can try the general searches, but the amount of results may be overwhelming. When that happens, you can try elsewhere with much better luck.
Some of the most popular search engines are Google, MSN, and Yahoo. Each of these has a special area for searching out specific things, and Yahoo has a great one. Yahoo People search can be very useful because it narrows down the results to things related to people only. You won’t get the huge amount of sometimes unrelated results that you would get through the regular search function.
When you get to the Yahoo People search, you will see a small variety of options. What you want to use will be up to you. One of the most common searches would be for a phone number. People move and change numbers often, so it makes sense that we may not have a new number for someone we already know but have lost touch with. The first option on Yahoo People search is for US phone numbers. You can add name, address, and state or city if you know the information.
Another people search option on Yahoo is the email search. If you can’t find a phone number, you may want to see if they have an email you can use to reach them. You have to enter their last name, and a first name or initial to see what comes up. You may find a lot of people with the same name, but you may be able to pick out the right email. You could even try all of them if you are eager to find your missing person.
If you are in the reverse position, meaning you don’t have a name, but you do have the number, you can use the Yahoo People search for a reverse phone lookup. That may tell you who owns a particular phone number. If that does not help you, you can try to search a phone number through one of the many reverse phone number searches you can find elsewhere online.
Susan is a part-time writer and long-time personal fitness trainer with a knack for tech gadgets.
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