Father reunites with daughter after 30-year searchA Google search Google is owned by Google, Inc. whose mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The largest search engine on the web, Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. has reunited a father with the daughter he has been trying to track down for three decades. April Antoniou, 30, of Newnan, Georgia Newnan is a city in Coweta County, Georgia, 39 miles (63 km) southwest of Atlanta. In 1900: 3,654 people lived in Newnan, Georgia; in 1910: 5,548, and in 1940: 7,182. The population was 16,242 at the 2000 Census. , and her father, Scott Becker, of Wichita, Kansas
Wichita, also known as the Air Capital of the World, is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas, as well as a major aircraft manufacturing hub and cultural center. , have been making the rounds of television news and talk shows since their Internet-aided reunion this month. Antoniou and Becker told Atlanta television stations WGCL-TV and 11Alive they had been independently trying to find each other for years but with no success. Antoniou said she had frequently turned to Google but had no luck because her father's name is relatively common and she knew very little about him. But when she typed "Scott Robert Becker Looking for April" into the Google search box a few days ago it landed her on a website created by her father seven years ago -- www.aprilbecker.com -- where he had left a message: "Dear April, "When you read this, please send an email to: april@aprilbecker.com "I'm your Dad and I would really like to talk to ya. "When I get your email, I will ask you a couple of questions that only you would know so I can filter out the crazies out there. "By the way, You have a lil sister that REALLY wants to talk to you :-) "Dad Scott Robert Becker" Becker told the local television stations he had been looking for April ever since he divorced her mother a few months after April's birth, even spending tens of thousands of dollars on private investigators. "I could not find her. I could not find her mother. I couldn't find April and I looked and I looked and I looked," Becker told WGCL-TV. "So, I thought maybe one day my daughter will Google her name and maybe she will find me that way," he said. Becker said that after receiving an email from his daughter he confirmed her identity by asking personal questions such as her mother's maiden name maiden name n. A woman's family name before she is married. Used of a surname that is replaced by a woman when she marries. Also called birth name. and her birthday. Antoniou, who has two children of her own aged four and six, and her father reunited at an Atlanta restaurant last week. 
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