YoName

YoName is a great tool to find people across social networks, blogs and more.

Snusearch

Snusearch is a custom Google searc to find people on the social networks for free.

Freesearch

Freesearch is a free Twitter people finding tool that will tweet you all search results for a person.



















Very nice!

Who Is This Person? 1.1.1

Who Is This Person? 1.1.1 is a great Firefox addon that brings all of the people finding tools to your fingertips.



















All you have to do is highlight any name on a web page and see matching information from Wink, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Facebook, Google News, Technorati, Yahoo Person Search, Spock, WikiYou, ZoomInfo, IMDB, MySpace and more...

Find people on Twitter

Twellow is a great resource for finding people on Twitter, as pretty much every Twitter user is listed there.
















You may search for people on Twellow by category, name, or keyword (city, profession, interest, etc.).

Spokeo

Spokeo can scan your contacts and find them all over the social networks.















It has many free results, but to see all you must pay.

I have to say that it is probably the only search tool I would pay for.

PeekYou

PeekYou allows you to search for people across all the social networks.
















PeekYou allows you to find people on the social networks by name, interests, work, school, etc.

It is an excellent people finding tool.

Finding People on Twitter

If you want to find people on Twitter, I have created a comprehensive list of Twitter search tools.













It will eventually offer every Twitter search tool available.

Find people on Ziggs

Ziggs has a standard search that makes it very easy to find people on their social network.


















You may search for people by:

First Name:
Last Name:
Country:
State / Province
City/Town:
Keywords:
Company/Organization:

Finding People on Plaxo

Plaxo has a directory that allows you to search for people by name.











You used to have to enter an e-mail address to find people, but thanks to competition from Facebook, it has become easier to find people on Plaxo.

Naymz

Naymz is a great website for finding people on a professional level.














Unfortunately, not very many people have realized the usefulness of Naymz yet, so you won't find as many people there as you would on Linkedin, etc.

Find people on Linkedin

Linkedin has a great advanced search feature that allows you to find people easily.

You can search for a person or business under:

Keyword

Location

First Name, Last Name

Title

Company

Industry

School

Group

Interests

Language

Time joined

, and sort all results by relevance, relationship, or keyword.

Linkedin has one of the best search tools I have ever used.

Another great option for finding people on Linkedin is 123 people:

123 People will give you results from the web, public records, microblogs (Twitter), and social networks such as Linkedin and Facebook.

Find People on My Space

Finding friends on My Space is relatively easy with the standard search tool that they offer.














It allows you to search for friends by their name, display name (or nickname), or their e-mail address.

You can even allow the program to search your e-mail to find friends who are on My Space.


Another option is 123 people.















123 People will give you results from the web, public records, microblogs (Twitter), and social networks such as Linkedin,Facebook and My Space.

Finding People on Facebook

Facebook has a basic search that allows you to look people by name, but there are other tools.

You may search by name on the basic search.


















You may use the advanced people finding application:

This allows you to search for:

People, Groups, Applications, Band/Business/Artist/Politician Pages,Web

You may search by the following parameters:

City/Area, School/College/University Workplace, or Religion





















Probably the best option for finding people on Facebook, or anywhere else is 123 people.

123 People will give you results from the web, public records, microblogs (Twitter), and social networks such as Linkedin and Facebook.

Domaintools

Domaintools is the single greatest people finding website out there.














If you have a company's website address, you most likely have access to the most important person in the company.

DomainTools has the information as to the person who manages the domain name for the website. If they do not have privacy on the domain name, the information is available.

This information includes the business address, phone, name of administrator (normally the CEO, or owner of the company, as anyone intelligent does not allow someone else to control something so important), and finally, the e-mail address of this person.

The e-mail address is normally the information that is most up-to-date, as no one wants to lose their domain name, and they must be notified if anything happens with it.

I use DomainTools every day. It is the most important tool for me.

Hot Frog

Hot Frog is a directory of businesses in the USA, that allows you to search for businesses and products by location.

















This is not a people finding website, it is a business finding website.

The results are sorted by distance from the location you input, and include business name, products offered, business address, and business phone.

You could easily use this information in a sales capacity to create a list of companies to approach for a certain product in a certain area.

Lead 411

Lead 411 is a great people finding website, that also allows you to search for businesses.














You can search by a person's name, and it will bring up the information on the business where they work, their title, e-mail (not free), phone, city and state.














If you put a company name (or part of it), you will get results with the city and phone.











You may then click on a business, and it will give you more specific information, including business address, business phone number, company website, business fax number, as well as information about the business, and information on key people at the company.

Lead 411 is an excellent tool for finding businesses, and people at those businesses.

Goliath

Goliath is a great tool for finding businesses for free.

















You can enter the company name or, part of it (first letter for example), to get a larger list.

You may filter the results by -


City:

State:

Country

Email:

SIC Code:

NAICS Code:

Product:

Keyword:


Goliath gives quite a bit of information for free, and can be used to find business addresses, phone numbers, etc.

One could even use it to create sales prospecting lists, and generate leads from that.

Biz Journals

Biz Journals is a very thorough and accurate free business and people lookup website.












When you search for a business, the results include employees at the business, their titles, a summary of the company, business phone, website address, business address, and normally the company's annual revenue as well .

Cortera

Cortera is a great website for finding businesses.

















Cortera has developed into a great tool for finding business and people for free. There are some features that require a subscription, but you get these great features without it:

Company Description (a brief summary)

Contact Information:
Phone
Contact Name
Title

Key Facts:
Location Type
Industry
Year Founded
Sales Range
Employees

Payment Risk

Spoke

Spoke has developed into an excellent people finding website.















Spoke allows you to search by a person's name, company name, or the person's title.

If you search by a person's name, you get results with the company name, as well as other employees at the company. You also get the business address, the business phone number, even the company revenue.

You may join and get even more information.

There are not many websites that give you this type of information for free, you could literally create your own business leads from what is provided.

Zoom Info

Zoom Info is a great website fo finding people and businesses for free.















Zoom Info gives you a combination of the personal and professional information on the Internet as well as some social networks' information.


You can even create a profile yourself, and use it as a social network.


It is an excellent tool for finding people, businesses, their address, phone number etc, for free.

Jigsaw

Jigsaw is not the best people finding website out there, as they really don't have a lot of information in their database.












The website is however an excellent place to start if you are going to be building a list of sales leads for your company.

The reason I say this is the fact that Jigsaw literally will allow you to download most of their general information for free.

You can download lists to find a business, find a person, find an address, find a phone number, etc.

This gives you an excel spreadsheet with most of the work done....I can't tell you exactly how to fill in the blanks, as it would probably drive them to change this practice, but it can be done with some creativity.

Manta

Manta is my preferred tool for finding business owners.











Normally, when you search for a company or a business owner on a free people finding website, the information is outdated, or very limited.

Manta gives very up-to-date information on the owner of a business, their business address, their business phone, and even their website in many cases.

You can search for a company by location, or by category, or use the search bar to search by just about any field (owner, address, phone, state, city, zip, type of business etc).

Zaba Search

Zaba Search allows you to search for people by name or by phone number.

I wasn't really impressed with this tool. Most of the searches were paid, and the information is all out dated.

This site gets about 85 thousand unqiue visits...makes me wonder why.

123 People

123 People:















123 People has come a long way. I have never seen a more thorough and accurate free people finding website. The results give you information from the web, social networks, photo sites, video sites, etc.

The results include e-mail addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, etc. for people.

I use all ofthe websites I have listed on a daily basis, and normally had to do multiple searches on multiple websites to get the information before now.

I am very impressed!!!

Wink

Wink:

















Wink is a good website for finding people for free. You can search by name, e-mail, or phone. Wink even searches the social networks, which is great.

Pipl

Pipl:
















Pipl is one of the most comprehensive people finding websites I have ever seen, and most amazingly, it is free.

I did a search on myself, and most of the information was outdated, but it is still a good tool:












You can search for someone on a personal or professional level, through public records, general information, as well as many of the social networks and business sites.

You have the option of searching by name, email, username or phone. The options other than name search tend to present the same information brought up by the name search, with many sponsored options.

I will present ways to find people effectively (for free) with the other options in later posts.

Free People Finding Websites

If you are trying to find a person for personal or professional reasons, there are many resources available to you online. You have the option of looking for people by name directly in the search engines, in online directories, in business directories or, on social networking sites...you may also look them up by their name, company name, address, phone number, website address, or e-mail address.

There are many free people finding websites out there that allow you to do searches, only to try and charge you to get access to the results. Following are people finding websites that offer some information for free, you can piece your leads together by using a few of the resources:

Search Engines - (you may input the person's name, company name, address, phone, website address, or e-mail address for information on them)

Google
Yahoo
MSN

People Search (search by person's name) -

Pipl
Wink
123people/
Skipease
ZabaSearch

Phone Directories (input the person or company phone number)- -

Switchboard
Who Where
Infobel
Dex Online
Anywho


Business Directories (lookup company by any employee of the company, or owner by their name) -

US Chamber of Commerce Directory
Better Business Bureau
California Corporate Search
Hoovers
Jigsaw
Manta
Zoom Info
Spoke
Cortera
Bizjournals
Goliath
Lead 411
Hot Frog

Social Networking Websites -

Facebook
My Space
LinkdIn
Naymz
Plaxo
Xing
Ziggs
Twitter

There are some sites that allow you to do different types of searches right from the same site -

Whitepages
411/

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