You can use email address search to find a long lost friend or a contact with which you have lost contact. It is a simple and quite straight forward task to carry out and is used by many people today as a means of locating friends and family, even though it is also been abused by spammers.

To do this kind of search all you need to do is to enter your friend's name or whoever it is you are looking for in the box provided, and then enter the country where they are supposed to be living at. For searched that are centered in America you will have to enter a specific state during your search while for international search just the country will do. Most of the email address search services can find almost email from any country as long as it is listed. The results are also immediate and in the event that no result is returned you can simply change certain criteria and repeat your search again.

Using first name only during your search will obviously give you more results while using name and surname will provide fewer results and more chances of finding the person you are looking for straight away. If you do not find the person you are looking for what you can do, is to change the country to all the possible countries you think they might be and search again. The email search can be a very useful tool for finding friends and family if you are patient enough.

Some of the services are completely free while some others have one time payment for you to use their service for life. Some services also enable you to make contact with the person straight away by sending an email through them, but there is limit on the number of emails you can send to avoid spamming.

You can also do a reverse email search whereby you enter an email address and do a search to find out who owns the email. This is a good method of checking who has sent you an email and their location as well.