There are a ton of reasons to be looking for someone – from divorce proceedings, to deadbeat dads, to felons, to thieves, to long lost loves – everybody is looking for someone. As we are now well into the third generation of the internet search phenomenon this have become easier to do – but now we have almost too many ways to access this data. Therefore we are beginning to see the rise and rapid usage of specific websites that are dedicated to one specific type of data access. You may still need a people finder however.

Anywho.com, as an example, is a site totally dedicated to locating information based solely on a phone number. This web grew out of the plethora of data that is now kept by phone number.  Phone numbers are often used now for the primary key to members or customers – like insurance or utility companies.  So we see that any tendency for public use of private data – whether it is kept privately or not – is then a search target.

There is an almost limitless supply of information that is stored – and therefore retrieval – by phone number. So, if you have a phone number for the target person in your search you can simply enter it into several of these free online sites and get back more data than you probably want.   Here are a few of these free sites that are seeing their usage increase exponentially:

Anywho.com – allows you to do access a ton of data on any person or business based on phone number.  Teldir – an international phone number and name lookup – you give it a number and it tells you all it has on that number.  DexOnline – is a free phone directory for governmental, business and residential phones.  Switchboard.com – one of the best free search sites for both residential and business data – phones, address, etc.  It is great if you are doing an address search.

We did not even list the free phone number lookup sites. These exist all over the net and they usually include international numbers as well as Toll Free Numbers.

Each of the other primary categories of search data – Governmental, Residential, Business and Military – all have public access sites that are free.For most of these all you need to do to get to them is to do a Google search for free information on XXXXXXX – where XXXXXXX is the name of the individual, business or agency. What you will get on Google is a wealth of sites – some free and public and some fee-based – but a ton of sites dedicated to the subject issue.

All of the data from these sites should become part of your collection of data on your target person.  Eventually, if you are trying to find a person , you will get hits that help you finish the search.