Looking for someone? - digg this
Long Time Lost is a free "service" (more so it is a software app written by someone who had some spare time, good programmer friends, a little bit of creativity and a lot of coffee) that allows you to create a "search" for someone you lost touch with. That "search" is then indexed by Google (and other search engines) and then when that person you are looking for (or someone who knows them) does a "Vanity Search" (the process of searching for one's own name on Google... we know you do it!) they find your "search" and can respond to you and reconnect. All information is handled through the system so your private information like your email address isn't out there on the net. It's new, it's Web 2.0, it's powered by Google, it's Ruby on Rails... and it's FREE... so check it out.
Check it out here. I'm using it to find an old high school buddy.
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Total Number of Comments: 2
See now, I'm constantly working to keep my identity and everything OFF of Google and the other search engines, why in the world would I want to _intentionally_ submit this?
But afaik only the name of the person you're looking for gets stuck on google. When they click the link they do get your name and pic (if you choose to include a pic, I did). Problem is (and I suppose it's a good problem) when people Google me they get a hockey player and when I google my friend Bill I get a photographer. When I google you I get goat...