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Moved recently to a new neighborhood? Want to know more about the neighbors? Or desperate to locate an old flame? Whitepages.com might be able to provide you with the information you need. The white pages online directory allows you to search people and businesses in the US and Canada, free of charges.

The homepage is done in shades of purple with the options listed quite clearly. Among the options in the header bar - people search, business search, email search, reverse phone, etc, the first two are selected by default and appear in two columns.

In the people search column, you need to enter the last name of the person you are searching for, or at least its first few letters. A listing of the people with the specified last name will appear with the addresses. You can narrow down your search much more if you know details like the first name, the state/province, zip code, street name, number etc. If the person you are searching for is in the list, clicking on the name will open an exclusive page where you will also find sponsored links like Lasik Plus, Ask.com etc.

US search also offers its services here in the form of options like ‘check background records', ‘instant criminal records' etc. All these however, are not free and have the rates listed by the side. This also requires you to create an account, following which the details will be mailed to your email address.

Some of the unique features of the site are its options like ‘find your neighbors' which would be of great help to people who have recently moved to a new neighborhood.

Although the site is primarily a people finder, it also has options like business search, email search, reverse phone, reverse address etc. The business search saves you time by providing you with a list of businesses of a specific category in an area as you enter the details.

Most of the space in the homepage is taken up by advertisements as the two columns-people and business search do not take up too much space. However, the advertisements are mostly of directories or related to search in some way and thus would be quite useful to visitors to the site in many ways. The site can rightly be considered as a one stop shop for anyone who wants information on anyone or anything in the US.

Asha Prakash

Hi tech Editorial Division