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Free People Searching Utilities? 51

Posted by Cliff 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?
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  • Have you tried just calling 411 and getting the contact info?

  • pull it together, man (Score:3, Funny)

    by tps12 ( 105590 ) on Monday August 05, 2002 @03:36PM (#4013923) Homepage Journal
    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?
    • 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.
    • Yeah, anyone who needs the Internet to find someone's phone number sounds like the kind of guy who barely overheard someone ELSE getting a phone number.

      PS - Does this guy remind anyone else of karma whore supreme, 56ker? We destroyed 56ker, so walk carefully, tps.

  • ...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. (Score:2, Funny)

    by m0rph3us0 ( 549631 )
    Umm... the best people finding utility I know of is google, try hiding from google.

    • Actually, I'm not in it - except for those damned Usenet posts (rec.gardens.roses you pervs)

    • Re:Google. (Score:2, Informative)

      by utopiabound ( 199550 )
      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.
    • If you're searching on a common name [google.com], Google's not much help. If the name is unusual - say, Tom Swiss [google.com], 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.)

  • oh (Score:1)

    by tps12 ( 105590 )
    Also, I should point out the obvious possibility that the person asking the question is a stalker trying to find a resource to help him track down his victim.

  • um, the yellow pages? (Score:3, Informative)

    by kootch ( 81702 ) on Monday August 05, 2002 @03:43PM (#4013959) Homepage
    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 (Score:2, Insightful)

    by m0rph3us0 ( 549631 )
    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?

  • Stalkers, what do you use? (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward

    The Internet is for wimps.

    What happened to following people home from the bar, waiting for them to get out of work while sitting in your car, masturbating to the glimpse you get of them in the window? Then you start mailing them stuff, and stand out in their yard until the cops come and take you away!
  • If you're honest about the "I can't keep track of all the napkins and coasters and stuff" and are, infact, not a stalker, it sounds like you need to figure out a better way to keep track of the numbers rather than looking for them the morning after. Try a small notebook; something with pages the size of index cards would probably work nicely.
  • If you don't have any of the info, how are you going to know what to look up?
    I can see it now...
    It's er, uh, Dorothy Something. On a Broken Branch or was it Falling Limb Road. In, uh, whatsthefuckingtown...
    You could also try anywho.com, although the pop-up ads will drive you right back to the bar. (They will not, however, buy you drinks.)

  • In the US... (Score:2, Informative)

    by Loualbano2 ( 98133 )
    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 (Score:3, Informative)

    by FreeMath ( 230584 ) on Monday August 05, 2002 @04:13PM (#4014145) Homepage Journal
    AnyWho [anywho.com] is run by AT&T. It seems fairly complete, and is regularly updated.
  • For within the US at least, Google does a pretty good job.

    Try: FirstName LastName State

    or

    LastName City State

    or

    Just Phone Number

    And, of course you have to love the link to the address on mapquest...

    -spreer

  • It's a survival mechanism. (Score:5, Funny)

    by cornice ( 9801 ) on Monday August 05, 2002 @05:29PM (#4014606)
    when I go out for **beverages** --snip-- I usually end up losing these napkins/receipts

    Your subconscious mind is only trying to protect you.

  • 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
    • It seems to me that the typical spammer would rather grab emails off a newsgroup or buy somebody's list of a million addresses, rather than going to the trouble of looking up people from the phone book..
  • Free people searching utilities?

    Hands.

    So long as you you don't mean Free as in Not Going To Jail, that is...
  • So what type of utility is this? It searches for people to free?

    From what?

    *confused look*
  • 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.

  • i'm too lazy to use google please do my work for me........

  • "The Ultimates" useless. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Domini ( 103836 ) on Tuesday August 06, 2002 @04:56AM (#4016793) Journal
    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.
  • Why not just learn a new way to remember phone numbers, email addresses, etc? This is what mnemonics were made for! Uber geeks can laugh that they'll never be without their PDA, but hey.

    http://mnemisis.sourceforge.net/
  • It also has a reverse lookup, so if you have someone's phone number, it gives your their name and address.

    www.infospace.com provides the same service for the States. In fact, I believe InfoSpace is the enginer behind 411.ca
  • My one concern with these types of services is the possibility of abuse. Let's say, for example, that you're running away from an abusive spouse/parent/stalker etc. Chances are good you don't want them to find you. Yet these services, while wholly useful for looking up innocently forgotten phone numbers, make it that much easier for you to be located.

    I love these services, but there is a big potential for abuse.

  • Best ever! Lets you look up reverse Addresses, find neighbors, reverse phone lookup, everything! [findlaw.com]

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

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