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Top 26 People Search Sites and Email Address Directories

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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 26 best bets.

1. Pipl People Search - Free People Search Site

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.

2. Wink People Search - Free People Search Site

Wink aggregates from both social networking sites and the web to find people's web presences — including ways to send them an email.

3. Intelius People Search - People Search Site

Accessing various public records, Intelius provides comprehensive email address search for the U.S. and can reveal the person behind an email address, too.

4. LinkedIn People Search - Free People Search Site

LinkedIn worldwide network of professionals can be searched by name, industry, company, region and more. Of course, LinkedIn offers means to get in touch.

5. Spock - Free People Search Site

Spock finds people not only by name and location but also by tags and, well, just about anything related to them.

6. LexisNexis Public Records - People Search Service

For serious research: LexisNexis's public records and private database search covers hundreds of millions of people and businesses.

7. my.email.address.is - Free People Search Site

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.

8. ProfileSpy - People Search Service

Searching by name, email address or phone number, ProfileSpy returns comprehensive results from many a source.

9. yasni - Free People Search Site

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.

10. FreshAddress.com - Free People Search Site

FreshAddress.com links old and new email addresses, but its always up to date database can also be searched for other criteria.
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