Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Free People Searching Utilities?

Posted by Cliff on from the reach-out-reach-out-and-touch-someone dept.

nasteric asks: "I travel a lot for my job and I meet quite a few people when I go out for **beverages** It might be at a club in Spain, a pub in Ireland or at a Manhattan bar. Unfortunately, I don't bring my PDA to many of these places so I have to resort to getting email addresses/phone numbers on napkins or old receipts. I usually end up losing these napkins/receipts during the course of the night/morning and when I try to get in touch with them I usually don't remember their email address or phone number. Lately, I've been using some free online utilities to look up phone numbers/email addresses but I know there have to be better resources. As a result, I am turning to the Slashdot community for help. Does anybody know of any FREE online resources for locating email addresses/phone numbers, assuming you have the persons name and city/country of residence? Any online utility will suffice, whether it be a telephone companies website or a sited designed specifically to be an online directory." For phone numbers, about the best resource I have found is The Ultimates is a site that seems to do it all. What other similar sites have you found?

5 of 51 comments (clear)

  1. um, the yellow pages? by kootch · · Score: 3, Informative

    www.superpages.com by verizon.

    even has reverse lookup... for those times when you have the girl's phone number but forget her name ;)

  2. In the US... by Loualbano2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Go to brbpub.com. There is a public records link on the left. You can search through federal, state and county public record sites. It's the best I have seen so far, that's free.

    -ft

  3. AnyWho by FreeMath · · Score: 3, Informative

    AnyWho is run by AT&T. It seems fairly complete, and is regularly updated.

    --
    This sig intentionally left blank.
  4. Re:Google. by utopiabound · · Score: 2, Informative

    the phonebook section of google works wonders.
    on the google frontpage do "phonebook: <name>, <location>" or you could try "phonebook: <phone number>"
    The <name> field doesn't do substring matches, e.g. "steve" won't match "steven" and such.
    Last names work best.

  5. Re:sponsored questions? by scottmartinnet · · Score: 2, Informative
    I own and operate the Ultimates, and I didn't know about this until I saw my logs spike from the mini-Slashdotting. (I am an everyday Slashdot reader, just not of Ask Slashdot.) It's really awesome that I got mentioned on Slashdot.

    Cliff added the link to nasteric's question. I'm not nasteric. And, of course, I didn't pay for it. Don't be stupid.