15 New Free People Search Engines
Wednesday February 13, 2008
New free people search engines are popping up all the time on the Web, and I've rounded up a few that are brand spankin' new, as well as ones that might've been out there for a little bit but people are discovering new uses for them. Find out more in my article titled Fifteen New People Search Engines.
Very comprehensive article on people search. I would only add the yoname.com is the easiest and most thurough of the sites listed. It also allows searching my e-mail as you mentioned (Which I think is great). I would also add that facebook is now letting their pages be spidered, which they did not allow before. Thsi means that google and yahoo are picking up facebook profiles now too.
Great break down of each site that offers this kind of service. While it can prove to be useful to many people and perhaps companies, I can see where some people may be a bit nervous about their privacy being invaded to a certain extent. Then again, if you put it on the web…it IS a public place.
None of these sites are not free. This like all the others, is a SCAM
@Anne Kirchner – Excuse me? You must be kidding me. How is Facebook, or Pipl, or Spock NOT FREE? Obviously you have not tried these search engines. Give them a try and then let us know if you still think they are a scam.
Legally, they are not supposed to say the word FREE when you actually have to pay something at the end. Technically, if it says FREE and is not (for any reason at any moment of ther search) it is considered FRAUD. So far, there is no people search engine FREE. However, they keep using this word (FREE) to deceive. However people are not so stupid.
Yes, I agree with the one individual who had the courage to call it like it is, another scam, and an effort by the People Search, AKA Intelius, to continue illegally monpolize this particular business on the Internet, thereby violating the rights of millions of citizens who are lead to believe by their bait & switch tactics that the time they spend will actually be free, and not requiring your credit card information at all.
As an attorney at law, I wish that I had more time to spend on this particular item, because I promise that I would conduct an investigation and bring forth a lawsuit such as to explode this kind of leacherous, monopoly conduct that I have watched over the last 5 years, or more, where I have seen Intellius and its People Search / People Finders websites take over one Search Business after another, until there are almost no actual free people search engines left. I can give you an example of one of them that Intellius has been into for some time now – http://www.theultimates.com/white/ and http://www.theultimates.com/yellow/
Over the last several years those two websites, originally representing a number of independent search companies, have been melted down into almost one website only – Intellius & People Search.
So don’t tell me it isn’t a scam – worse it’s an illegal effort to make itself an information monopoly, just as has been “Acme People Search” above, allegedly free, but why are they desirous to get your credit card information before it becomes “free?”
My time, FYI, is $250 an hour, ordinary clients, and $400 an hour, in a crisis. I am giving serious thought to going to their advertise “free” websites, spending an hour or two trying to figure out how I can get my free sign up service, and when I can’t, sending them my bill for straghtforward Internet Fraud. And that will be just for starters. Heaeds Up to all of you.
Most of the people search engines advertise for a free search. They never really talk about the results. Some will require that you register to get results while others will ask that you pay for the results. All this is always disclosed on the site. The purpose of the short ad is not to tell everything there is to know about the product, but to get the potential customer to click and visit the site and checkout the product.
There is a absolutely free people search engine, Absolutely Free People Search Engine . What you need to do is to sign up an account in reunion to unlock the records you are search for, but They are all absolutely free, you don’t need to pay a penny from your pocket.
I am a part time web developer and now want to switch myself to Web2.0 Application Development, i was searching some stuff about Web2.0, Social Media, Social networking and Blogs, by passing Google Search i came acroos your website which has excellent resources of Web2.0 and e-Marketing.
Terry’s entry is false. The site he offers link to requires a lot of effort then does NOT release the promised “locked” information even after you have suscribed. It wants $$$$$…just like all the other scams.