Here is a great story about how simple internet searches in the “age of Google” are reuniting people with past friends and family …

Two military buddies from two different countries were recently reunited after 50 years apart, thanks to the power that internet searching has given people to find one another.

Army officer Gene Kean was reunited with his friend Anh Vo, a former South Vietnamese army colonel, after 50 years apart and decades of searching.

Vo traveled to Lawrence Kansas on April 25 to meet with Kean after searching for him for decades.

“We are very happy,” Vo said. “I didn’t think I could find him, but I tried. I tried many times.”

The two military friends met in 1958 at the U.S. Army Engineer School in Fort Belvoir, VA, when Vo arrived in the US for training, after graduating from the Military Academy of Vietnam.

The friendship grew from that point on. Vo said he would practice his English with Kean. Kean taught him how to play football and played the piano for them. Kean even invited Vo and another officer to his home in Olathe to spend Christmas in Kansas.

When Vo graduated from the officers’ school in 1959, the two went their separate ways.

Vo’s son finally helped find Kean using free people search sites on the internet, and the two friends were finally reunited.

The two military buddies say their next reunion will be much sooner.

“We’ll try to keep meeting, if we have the chance to,” Vo said. “We don’t know how long we’ll be alive, so we’ll take time to enjoy it. We’re very close, very good friends. He’s a brother.”

Source: Kansas man reunited with friend after 50 years

An April 30 article in TechFlash confirmed that people search and public records data provider Intelius has purchased the free people search engine Spock.com for an undisclosed amount of money.

According to the article: Spock.com has burned through $8 million in capital and attracts about 10 million unique visitors each month to its free people search engine.

It will be interesting to see what Intelius has planned for the Spock.com people search service.

Source: Intelius Buys Spock.com

A new Google people search service allows users to track people, including friends and family from your cell phone or computer.

Google Latitude allows users to:

With Google Latitude, you can:

– Find where people are and what they are doing.
– Contact your tracked friends and family by SMS, instant messaging, or phone call.
– Control your personal location and which people get to track it.

You can use the Google Latitude people search service on your phone, PC, or both.

Check it out at Google Latitude People Tracker.

The free people search site YoName.com offers a person finder posting service for people looking to find and reconnect with past friends and family.

You simply enter your personal and contact information as well as the information about the person you are trying to find and YoName.com will create a posting with that information that can be indexed by the major search engines like Google.

If the person you are trying to find, or someone they know, comes across the posting in an internet search, they can then contact you through YoName.com.

The service assumes to some degree that the person you are searching for will Google themselves or will be Googled by a friend or family member and that your posting will be found. Depending on how common the person’s name is, this could be assuming quite a bit. However, the YoName.com free people search posting service is worth a try.

You can use the YoName people finder posting service at YoName.com.

Skipease.com has added the Pipl.com search to our Free People Search page, giving our visitors another great free search site for finding a person.

While some have described the Pipl.com search engine as “scary”, we think it is one of the most powerful new people searches on the web. The Pipl search can help you find a person as well as reverse lookup an email address, phone number or username.

Pipl.com is an amazing people search tool that searches numerous online resources like white pages, social networks and Deep Web databases to help you find a person faster than other online searches.

Some of the social networks and people search sites that the Pipl.com search engine crawls are myspace.com, facebook.com, online white pages, pdf documents, zabasearch.com, zoominfo.com, Google message boards, jigsaw.com, google people search, personal pages, as well as public records and government sites.

As Pipl.com adds other deep web data on people, the site will get even better.

You can try out the Pipl site @ Pipl.com.