Top 20 People Search Sites and Email Address Directories
Searching for people online? Looking for an email address? Look closer and find friends old and new as well as business contacts with these email address directories and people search engines. Here are your 20 best bets.
In real time, Pipl scours databases and directories such as ICQ, Amazon profiles, flickr or SEC records to find information and people web search engines do not see.
Wink aggregates from both social networking sites and the web to find people's web presences — including ways to send them an email.
Accessing various public records, Intelius provides comprehensive email address search for the U.S. and can reveal the person behind an email address, too.
LinkedIn worldwide network of professionals can be searched by name, industry, company, region and more. Of course, LinkedIn offers means to get in touch.
Spock finds people not only by name and location but also by tags and, well, just about anything related to them.
For serious research: LexisNexis's public records and private database search covers hundreds of millions of people and businesses.
My.email.address.is is a meta search engine for email addresses (and not just for mine). It scans the most popular email address directories including Yahoo! and AOL.
yasni scours social networks, the web, blogs, Amazon wishlists and its own records for whomever you seek. If your search is fruitless, you can swiftly create a missing person ad.
FreshAddress.com links old and new email addresses, but its always up to date database can also be searched for other criteria.
Search Bigfoot's big email address directory.