The phrase ‘people search’ is increasingly becoming a very popular term on the web. With information available readily on the net, one can find info about their loved ones or a long lost friend without much problems. There are probably hundreds of sites which allow you to find a person for ‘free’ but you will notice that once you search the name of the person you are trying to locate, the website will want you to pay a joining fee.

There are some reasons for this which are obvious but social networking sites such as Facebook.com are absolutely free but require you to sign up to actually view the details of a person. Since Facebook is the largest and most popular social networking website today, you have a strong chance of finding the person you are trying to search for! Here are some tips below for a free people search online….

Firstly, you will want to head over to Google.com; if you are in another country besides the US, Google will load in that respective domain and you have to make sure that you click on the link ‘Go To Google.com’ which you will find below the Google search box. Once you’ve done that, enter this (without the quotations) –

‘site:facebook.com John Doe’

Google will then scan all the possible matches in Facebook which relate to John Doe and yield their profiles in the search results. Make sure that you replace ‘John Doe’ with the person that you are trying to locate or get in touch with. This is a very good way to locate old classmates or friends i.e the ‘whatever happened to him/her’ group!

It is free and very effective, however, if you aren’t so lucky in finding any decent information by trying the above free person search method, then you ought to join a premium service.

Please understand that hundreds of these types of websites exist and most of these are just blatant rip offs as the information they provide is out of date or are just plain false. There are quite a number of legit people search companies, which do exist, but you just have to find the right one. It is really going to come down on you, if you are really desperate in trying to locate someone’s address or phone number, and not having any luck with the free social sites, then a professional service would be a better choice.

At the end of the day, its really going to come down to what you pay for, as there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world. I’m sure that you will find the info of the person you are searching for with a premium service. These services are not free because they have to pay thousands of dollars to retrieve all the information for the convenience of their customers into once organized database. Lets not also forget that just like a person’s details change like their address or phone number etc. so does the records about that person as they need to be updated constantly.

So you can understand now why these premium people search websites are not free and how one can have better luck in finding the person they are looking for using the database in a professional and paid service. But the choice is yours, I really hope that you locate your old schoolmate or friend or whoever that you are trying to find… There is really no other feeling like the one that you get when you find a friend you haven’t spoken to for over 10 years or so and catch up with the good old days. Good Luck!