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How to Find Someone Online

The Definitive Guide to Finding Someone Online

By Wendy Boswell, About.com

Need to find someone online? With all the new Web sites available to help you find someone online, people are finding surprising tidbits of information about their co-workers, loved ones, and friends that often don't turn up in a simple Web search. None of the following sites will give you information that isn't publicly available, but they will give it to you all in one place.

1. Top Ten Ways to Do a Free People Search On the Web

Do a free people search online with free people search engines, people search locator tools, and check out my review of good people search sites.

2. Use ZoomInfo for a Free People Search

ZoomInfo is a free people search engine that scours the Web for information about people, and nothing else. Trying to find people using a general search engine such as Google brings back a ton of results, however, those results can take a while to filter through and they're not always good. ZoomInfo takes care of this problem by focussing in one niche: people.

3. Google People Search

If you're looking for information about someone, one of the best places you can start your search on the Web is Google. You can do a Google people search to find background information, phone numbers, addresses, maps, and more.

4. Fifteen New Free People Search Engines

Finding people on the Web is getting easier and easier. Here are fifteen new free people search engines you can use to find the people you're looking for on the Web.

5. The Best Free People Search Sites

Finding people online is made easier with specialized free people search sites. This article is divided into four sections: * Phone Directories * Business Search * Online Obituaries * Free People Search Sites

6. Find People with Zabasearch

Simply put, Zabasearch is a free people search engine that scours freely accessible public information and records. It's a free service, but you'll have to pay if you want more detailed information, such as background checks.

7. Free Military People Search

If you've ever served in a branch of the United States military and would like to look someone up that you served with, then this list of free military people search databases is for you. Unless otherwise noted, all these military people search resources are free.

8. Spock

Spock is a uniquely formatted search engine that focuses only on people and information about people.

9. Ten Ways You Can Find Phone Numbers on the Web

You don't have to flip through a phonebook to find phone numbers these days. Instead, you can use the Web's many resources to find phone numbers. Here are ten different ways you can find phone numbers on the Web.

10. Ten Social Web Community Sites You Might Not Know About

One of the primary concepts underpinning the Web 2.0 movement has to be that of community: sharing content and ideas with others on the greater Web. Social community sites on the Web offer the searcher anything from shopping to fitness. Here are ten new community Web sites that you might not know about yet, but should.

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