Free People Searching Utilities?

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?

Comments

pull it together, man

[tps12]

Ask Slashdot: I'm an alcoholic who can't figure out how to work my PDA when being given someone's fake number at the seedy bar down the street. Can someone help me? Anyone?

Re:pull it together, man

[Otter]

Seriously --- bro, if you're so drunk that you can't hang on to a coaster or napkin until you get home, you might be in for a nasty shock if you did manage to arrange a daytime meeting with the "babe" you were talking to the night before.

There's a reason...

[4of12]

...that it's not too easy to find people's email addresses.

If you look in the average inbox, you'll find a fair quantity of Unsolicited Bulk Email (aka "spam").

Google.

[m0rph3us0]

Umm... the best people finding utility I know of is google, try hiding from google.

Re:Google.

[utopiabound]

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.

Re:Google.

[Mr. Slippery]

If you're searching on a common name, Google's not much help. If the name is unusual - say, Tom Swiss, and if you know enough to disambiguate the few matches (I'm the hacker vegan karate guy, not the ju-jitsu guy, not the Drake professor; and just one of the poets on the net with that name.)

um, the yellow pages?

[kootch]

www.superpages.com by verizon.

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

Slashdot

[m0rph3us0]

I am reading slashdot right? Some how this question feels like it would be best answered by Dear Abby, this question is more about picking up women/men then computers, and as usual...if the person asking the question had searched google they would probably already have a pretty good answer.

Is there any way to have a RTFM / FSGYI (Fucking search google you idiot) policy?

Re:Slashdot

[booch]

God forbid that someone on Slashdot might want to have a social life!

In the US...

[Loualbano2]

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

AnyWho

[FreeMath]

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

Re:411

[TBone]

411 also doesn't to reverse directory lookups...

It's a survival mechanism.

[cornice]

when I go out for **beverages** --snip-- I usually end up losing these napkins/receipts

Your subconscious mind is only trying to protect you.

Spammer

[Perdo]

Ask Slashdot:

I have a great source of names and phone numbers (The Phone Book) and I was wondering if there is a database somewhere to correlate the names to e-mail addresses so I can spam the planet...

Um.. NO

Finding People.

[jellomizer]

I usually Try whitepages.com that usually work. But the best solution is call a Notepad. (Not the one that come with windows) It is bunch of pieces of paper atached to a heavy cardboard back usually held together with a Wire that is wrapped in a spring pattern. This sping pattern is just the right size to carrie a pen. Its small portable, cheap, professional without being geeky, Fast to enter data. Great batery life. Cant go wrong with a notepad.

"The Ultimates" useless.

[Domini]

From what you said, you travel a lot. "The Ultimates" is for US only.

Pity. Keep on searching.

I shall refrain from making apt derogatory comments regarding bars and picking up women. Iam an adult, after all. ;)

Me.

Re:sponsored questions?

[scottmartinnet]

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.

www.FindLaw.com

[teamhasnoi]

Best ever! Lets you look up reverse Addresses, find neighbors, reverse phone lookup, everything!

Even better, you can find a lawyer with ease when you get arrested for stalking!