With the advancement of Internet search engine technology it becomes very easy to find missing people using the Internet
. Almost all areas of the country today have access to high-speed Internet connections which make the process of searching for missing people far easier than in times past. The searches can be done for free and as often as you like with any of the major search engines.
There are some tips and tricks though the make the process of searching for a lost person far easier and less time-consuming. Simply typing a person's name into a search engine will often lead to tens of thousands of pages of results. Multiply that by 10 results per page and you can end up with perhaps hundreds of thousands of hits you would need to sift through in order to find that single missing person you are looking for.
Almost all the major search engines have what they call an advanced search function. Look for the link on their webpage about doing advanced searches. These specialized searches allow you to filter the responses so that they are far more targeted and far fewer of them. So instead of having perhaps thousands of results you have narrowed the field down to several hundred.
This is especially true if the persons name is quite unique. If their name is very generic and very common it can be problematic for finding this lost person. Very common names will always result in tens of thousands of search results for that given first and last name. One way you can eliminate some of these results is to specify another word in the search parameters such as their last known residence or perhaps even their occupation. Also, finding information about a person if you know the high school they attended and what city it was you can do a search for that high school and often times there are class reunion websites which may in fact have that person's contact information on them.
Another consideration when finding a lost person with the search engines is to actually use the online search to find that persons profile in one of the many social media websites. The social media websites are very popular with the search engines and almost all of their pages are indexed and will sure what in the search results if proper searches are done. The way to do this is to type the persons name in along with the name of the social media website you wish to find a person's profile for. Once it's found, it simply a matter of requesting access to that person's account which, if they are friend, they will be glad to offer.