Features

• Create an online biography for anyone.
• Free sign up and simple user interface.
• Add different sections to the biography.
• Quickly edit any section on the page.

Check out Biographicon @ www.biographicon.com (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• WhitePages: Address and Phone Number Look Up
• Spock : Free People Search
• Snitch.Name: Search Social Network Sites For People
• Zooity: Aggregate Your Social Media Profiles
• ZabaSearch: Search People by Name, Address & Phone Number

There are two ways to run a search:

1. Phone number look up – search for phone number by name or address.

2. Revers phone look up – search for name and address by phone number.

I have done few searches and the results were worryingly accurate (How the heck they know all of that?). In both cases the results show owner’s name, address, phone number and the occupation.

You can also register on the site, create your own listing and use it as your online profile. This way you have some level of control on what others see.

Additional features like free text messaging, area code look up, zip code look up and mobile carrier look up are provided as well.

Features:

• Find phone numbers and addresses online.
• List numbers and addresses of 180 million US adults.
• Search for numbers by address and name.
• Search for name and address by number.
• Mobile app and browser search add-ons are also supported.
• Additional services:
  – Free text messaging.
  - Area code look up.
  - ZIP code look up.
  - Mobile carrier look up.
• More similar sites in 15 Websites to Find People On The Internet.

Check out WhitePages @ www.whitepages.com

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• WikiWorldBook: Free Online Address Book
• ZabaSearch: Search People by Name, Address & Phone Number
• Spock : Free People Search
• Snitch.Name: Search Social Network Sites For People
• Folowen: Quick Social Profile Search

Enter your birth date and DeadAtYourAge will present you with a list of famous actors, musicians, politicians, heroes… etc. along with their achievments. You can also register, leave comments and subscribe to get notified when you outlive somebody interesting.

Features:

• Check which famous people passed away before reaching your age.
• Register to leave comments and get RSS feed or email updates.

Check out DeadAtYourAge @ dead.atyourage.com (via Downloadsquad)

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• NamepediA : What Does My Name Mean?
• AgeDirectory: Find Out The Age Of A Person Who’s Famous
• ZabaSearch: Search People by Name, Address & Phone Number
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• WorldNamesProfiler: Surname Map Of The World

As you can see in the above screenshot, it has the cleanest of the user interfaces and you don’t really need time to understand what the site is all about.

It may say “find your favorite celebrity”, but as I mentioned, you can find age of anyone who’s famous on the net and has been referred to on well known sites. For example, I did a search on Robert Scoble, who may not stand in the same league as people like Bono and Brad Pitt but still I could find what I was looking for.

Check out AgeDirectory @ www.agedir.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• ZabaSearch: Search People by Name, Address & Phone Number
• WhitePages: Address and Phone Number Look Up
• Wa-Wd: Find Out Who Is Alive And Who Is Dead
• TuneChimp: Search And Discover Best Music From Any Artist

The site searches and lets you find people on popular social networks such as  Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, LinkedIn, Hi5, Twitter Google, Wordpress.org blogs and video sites like Vimeo. Additionally you can also make it search academic sites like MIT, Stanford, Oxford and Google Scholar.

You might also want to see other such sites which we have covered earlier PeekYou, Spock and read our related article on 3 Ways To Find People With Social Search Engines.

Check out Snitch.name @ snitch.name (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• PeekYou : People Search Engine

Here is how it works:

Lenders browse through the profiles of borrowers and select a borrower they want to lend to. You don’t have to lend the full amount the borrower is seeking, instead, you can lend just a portion of it. You can decide whom to lend to based on their requirements, their history, their origin e.t.c. Once you have decided how much you want to lend, just pay that money to Kiva through your paypal or credit card and Kiva passes it along to the borrower. The borrower then pay you back over time. Kiva works like any other loan, but it puts the power in your hand to lend to somebody who really need the money and gives you the ability to change some body’s life.

Features:

• Lend money to poor people.
• Lend the full amount or a portion of what they need.
• See complete profile and requirements of the borrower before you lend.
• Help your family & friends change lives too by giving them a Kiva gift certificate.
• Support Kiva by buying their cafepress products like mugs.
• Each borrower is first screened by a field partner of Kiva to make sure they have the ability to pay.

Visit Kiva @ www.kiva.org (Contributed By Tehseen Baweja from Ijaar.com)

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• WhatsTheCost: Free Financial Calculators
• WeSeed: Learn The Stock Market For Free Online
• WalletWatcher: Track your Budget and Spendings

The website has a very large name database that was formed with the help of user submissions, interviews, national census data, birth statistics, phone books etc.

It further lets you become a member and contribute to the site by suggesting changes to name descriptions or rating suggestions of others. There is also a Firefox addon that lets you quickly check out names and get phonetic spellings for foreign ones.

Features:

• Get the meaning, history, frequency, origin, popularity and translation for any name.
• Lookup celebrities or famous people with the same name.
• Get ideas for baby names.
• Phonetic spellings provided as well
• Firefox addon and Google gadget available.
• No signup or registration necessary (unless you want to contribute)

Check out NamepediA @ www.namepedia.org

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• Ziipa: Web 2.0 Directory
• ZabaSearch: Search People by Name, Address & Phone Number
• WriteRhymes : Find Word Rhymes

Their advanced search feature that lets you further narrow down your search by City, State, Birth Year and person’s Middle name.

You can also check public messages left for you or any other name (ex. see george w bush), and also get email alerts when someone searches for your name on ZabaSearch. These options can be accessed from the bottom of the page.

Features:

• Search people by name, address or phone number.
• Narrow searches to a particular City, State, Birth Year and Middle name.
• Check out public messages left on your or any other name.
• Set email alerts when someone searches for you on ZabaSearch

Check out ZabaSearch @ www.zabasearch.com

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• WhitePages: Address and Phone Number Look Up
• Find A Grave: Search 27 Million Cemetery Records
• Facesaerch: Face Search Engine
• 123People: Find A Person You’re Looking For
• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine

Features:

• People Finder: Find the address and phone number for someone within the US.
• Reverse Phone Directory: Shows personal and business data from WhitePages based on the phone nr.
• Weather Lookup: Get weather reports for any city (based on Yahoo! Weather).
• Tiny URL: This function lets you convert long web link to smaller one.
• Business Finder : Find local businesses and service providers. US only.

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• Sullr : Reverse Phone Number Lookup
• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software
• ZipSkinny : Zip Code Finder
• ZipMaps: Find Out Zip Code For Any Place in the US
• Zipdecode: Visualize Zip Code Location as You Type

General PeekYou profile includes:

• Quick Bio and picture.
• Web links: blogs, social network profiles (MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn), etc.

PeekYou Features:

• Search for profiles by name and/or surname.
• Option to search for someone by username: someone’s alias in a social networking site, or the ID part of his/her email address etc.
• Narrow down search results using life-related, school-related, and work-related tags.
• Search by country (US, UK, Australis, Canada, China, India, etc.).
• Create a new profile for someone, edit existing profiles, or request profile to be removed.
• Over 50 mil. indexed profiles.
• More on PeekYou here

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Check out PeekYou @ [www.peekyou.com]

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• Pipl
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Sullr Features

• Supported Countries: Argentina, United States, France, Belgium and Italy (maybe more).
• Access Sullr directly from your mobile (wap.sullr.com). Works with iPhone as well.
• Option to view address location on the map.
• Coming soon: Mobile phone reverse lookup.
• More information available on Sullr FAQ page.

Check out Sullr @ (www.sullr.com)

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• ZipSkinny : Zip Code Finder
• ZipMaps: Find Out Zip Code For Any Place in the US
• Zipdecode: Visualize Zip Code Location as You Type
• ZCmap : Zip Code Lookup by City or State

Spock.com: “Search engine application that organizes information around people using special algorithm to crawl popular sites on the web and combines this with community tagging to create relevant and rich search results about people.”

Quick Overview

• Search for people by their name or by using related descriptive tags (lawyer, Harvard law school, Boston Consulting, etc.).
• Advanced Search mode: Options to filter search results by gender, location, tags, and age.
• Claim Search result: Spock lets you claim your own profile and improve/edit it by adding biographical information, related tags (broker, Harvard Graduate, etc.), personal pictures, web links, and basically whatever you think is relevant.
• For additional information about Spock go here.

Spock.com – Intro Video:

Check out Spock @ (www.spock.com)

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Features:

• Make your profile public (visible to everyone on Naymz.com) or private (visible only to people searching for your name)
• Identify what details you would like search engine to show in Title (ex: John Smith) and Description (Microsoft Employee) fields of search results
• Create profile and get enlisted in massive Naymz directory (latter one is optional).
• Premium services (non-free): Guaranteed Findability. Read more

Visit Naymz

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How it works?: You simply request a contact you need and if it exists in their database you get contact’s details including name, title, email and the phone number. In return for each contact you’re required to give 5 Jigsaw points. You can either buy points at $0.20 for 1 point or get 10 points each time you submit a new or correct existing contact. Upon completing your registration for the first time you’ll be awarded 50 points.

Features

• Get information on any company and list of it’s employees. ? ()
• Browse companies by states, major cities, by industry, by alphabet, and more
• Browse contacts by alphabet or use Search option

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There is something special about this engine, it’s an only people search tool that looks for an info from the part of the internet that is usually not indexed by other major search engines (aka ‘deep web’ ). For instance, it turned me some pages that I never knew existed, i.e. my public ICQ profile or my long forgotten profile on Yahoo People.

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