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Top 17 People Search Sites and Email Address Directories

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

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 17 best bets.

11. Plaxo Pulse Search - Free People Search Site

After becoming a Plaxo member yourself, you can search — and contact — others in their directory.

12. Reunion.com People Search - Free People Search Site

After registering yourself (which puts you in the directory), Reunion.com turns up comprehensive results that get you back in touch with people you knew. You can also search by school, for example, and find out who's looking for you.

13. Yahoo! People Search - Free People Search Site

Find people in Yahoo's large directory of email addresses based on name, location, old email address (!) or organization name...

14. ICQ White Pages - Free People Search Site

Search the directory of ICQ users with numerous criteria to find old and new friends, and their email addresses.

15. PeekYou People Search - Free People Search Site

You can search PeekYou's profiles for people (and a way to contact them) by name, company or school.

16. ZoomInfo.com People Search - Free People Search Site

Finding names on the web and connecting the dots with artificial intelligence and natural language interpretation, ZoomInfo.com has assembled a great profile for just about anybody on the net. It does not have email addresses or ways to contact for everybody, though.

17. Search the Usenet Addresses Database - Free People Search Site

If you know the person you are looking for has been online for some time, you can try searching this database of people who posted to Usenet from 1991 to 1996.

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