There are already fifty William Van Winkles at large, roaming the U.S., and there could be dozens, maybe hundreds, of you spawning everywhere like pod people. Within seconds, you can e-mail them, find their addresses, get maps to their homes, and even send them flowers.
People finders are one of the newest tools for making the world a smaller place.
Rather than searching for topics, you're searching for people. However, most finders also allow for business searches. Many sites, such as Four11 and InfoSpace, even categorize by White and Yellow Page listings. But people finders also excel at helping to locate business contacts, family members, and even dearly missed school teachers. Rather than exacerbating the trend for search engines to bury us in information and irrelevant links, people finders help to restore a human touch to Internet technology.