On 25 Oct 2000, 16:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm not quite sure if it is off topic, but anyway i hope to have your
> especial help. I heard that we can search someone's like your friends,
> your relatives, your family who you haven't met for a long time on the
> Internet, there is write/yellow or email method or other way. My
> situation is, One friend of mine and myself haven't been communicating
> for three years, we lost all of contacts like email or call, i don know
> where he is even if he is abroad. But one thing i can make sure that is
> he sure have an email address in his company, how can we search an email
> within a company's Intranet? (of course, company's net is behind a
> firewall or something else, so it's difficult to search them)
>
> I'm from China, and most probably my friend is also in China.
It would be next to impossible to search within a company Intranet, but
there are some people directory search engines you can try and use. In
your case, we need to find a people or company search engine that has
an International database.
On the following page, there is a listing of Search directories (Phone
books, white pages, yellow pages) for China:
http://www.teldir.com/eng/asia/cn
Unfortunately, most of those are yellow pages or business pages
listings. That may be hard to find your friend, unless you know the
business where he works.
~~~
Just in case your friend is somewhere else in Asia, you might try some
of the links here on this Asia page at InfoSpace.com, such as Hong
Kong, Singapore, etc.:
http://www.infospace.com/info/intl/asia.html
~~
Although it may prove difficult, you might try any web search engine
that allows quotations and just enter your friend's name and see if he
has posted to some forum that is archived on the web. Example, if you
were to use AltaVista:
http://www.altavista.com/
...and we wanted to find Ling Wong, then we would enter into the search
box, "Ling Wong" with the quotes.
Maybe your friend has a web page somewhere and there is a contact
address on it. You never know till you try. :-)
~~~
My last suggestion is to check a few of the US email Directory sites,
such as Yahoo's people search or WhoWhere. The reason for that is that
many Chinese opt to have a secondary Hotmail or Yahoo email address to
have an alternate email address apart from their company address, which
often is more strict in their usage of those accounts. If they get one
of these email addresses, there is a good chance that account might
appear on one of these databases.
http://people.yahoo.com/
http://www.whowhere.com/
http://www.infospace.com/
Good luck. Your quest won't be easy.
Alan
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