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How to Search Free Online White Pages Directories To Find Phone Numbers, Addresses and People

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Searching the white pages for phone numbers is one of the most common activities performed on the internet today.  It is easier and faster than calling directory assistance, or 411.  Using the internet to search white pages allows you to find people, business listings, phone numbers, addresses, area codes, ZIP codes and postal codes free of charge.  The typical white page search site allows a nationwide online telephone directory to be searched by first and last names. Quite often, white page lookup websites also provide a variety of reverse address and reverse phone number lookup tools, international calling codes, and area code maps. Online white page search tools provide a free, simple, fast and reliable way to identify personal and business contact information.
 

Benefits of using the internet to search the white pages: White page search sites are easy to access on any computer with an internet connection Using the internet to look up multiple phone numbers is faster than calling directory assistance or looking up numbers in the phone book White page listings are often an accurate source of information and a good resource for finding people Most of the online search tools for searching white page directories are available for free

With their many search features and lookup tools, these white page search sites become a powerful people finder. Using a free people search tool to search the whitepages should be your first step in searching for a long lost love, an old friend, or missing family member. It may be possible to locate them at no cost using a free online phone book search.

One of the leading providers of online directory assistance is WhitePages.com.   The company strives to be the single best source for finding information to contact people and businesses and become the "ultimate white pages".  The WhitePages.com Network is comprised of WhitePages.com,  WhitePages.ca, PhoneNumber.com and 411.com. The company also provides private label solutions and powers the white pages sections of more than 1,300 Internet partners, including YellowPages.com and two of the country's major telephone service companies. With over 7.2 million monthly unique users, the WhitePages.com Network is the second most trafficked independent White Pages site on the Internet.

To use the white pages to search for and find people, do the following:

• Visit several of the lookup sites listed below (Using multiple websites may improve your changes of finding the phone number, address, or person you are seeking)

• Enter the subject's first name

• Enter the subject's last name

• Enter a city

• Enter a state

  • Note: multiple searches may be necessary if you are unsure of the correct state.  Leave this field blank if you wish to search all states

• Hit enter or click submit

• Browse through the list of white page results, searching for possible matches

White Pages Search Websites

Following is a list of search tools and directories that allow you to search online telephone directories including: white pages, yellow pages, toll-free directories, business and residential listings, and more:

Run a Reverse Phone Number Search
AnyWho White Pages	AnyWho provides a free online white pages directory where you can find people by their name, address or you can do a reverse lookup by phone number.
AT&T White Pages	AT&T Directory Assistance - Use the AT&T online directory to find phone numbers, addresses, maps and directions for businesses and people in the U.S. We recently updated the information listing to provide better results.
Bellsouth White Pages	Bellsouth telephone real white pages lookup.  Also searches the Bellsouth Real Yellow-Pages. (BellSouth White Pages has changed toAT&T White Pages)
BigBook	Complete Yellow Pages (and business white pages) for the US, with the added feature of a map interface that can plot an address to street level, or select phone numbers in a mapped area. Free home page offered to US businesses.
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Fast 411	Localized business web directory of the United States and Canada free white pages search. Includes business search, people search, reverse search, and map search capabilities.
Infospace People Search	Simple people search.  Search for phone numbers, find people, lookup addresses and more.
Intelius	Provides reverse phone number lookup services.  Save 30% on a Reverse Phone Lookup
International White and Yellow Pages	Search white and yellow pages online from around the world.  Includes:  Africa, America, Asia, Europe, South Pacific, Canadian white pages, Australian white pages, UK white pages, and more.
Pay Phone Directory	Thousands of pay telephone numbers in the United States, Canada, and other countries
Pipl	Pipl's query-engine helps you find deep web pages that cannot be found on regular search engines.  Unlike a typical search-engine, Pipl is designed to retrieve information from the deep web. Our robots are set to interact with searchable databases and extract facts, contact details and other relevant information from personal profiles, member directories, scientific publications, court records and numerous other deep-web sources.
Phone Validator	Learn if a phone number is a landline or a cell phone.  The site also allows users to automatically run the phone number through directory assistance and Google to develop new leads.
Prefix Locator	Search for a telephone area code and prefix of a number for the approximate location.
Phonetic.com	Finds words within telephone numbers. PhoNETic also converts phonetic telephone numbers into numeric digits.
Reference USA	National directory of people and businesses, and a classified directory. The unique feature here is credit ratings for most of the 10 million business listings. Has street maps also.  Has a huge number of databases with contact lists for people, businesses, and more.
Spokeo People Search	Spokeo is a search engine specialized in aggregating and organizing vast quantities of people-related information from a large variety of public sources. The public data is amassed with lightning speed, and presented almost instantly in an integrated, coherent, and easy-to-follow format.
Switchboard USA White Pages	Switchboard, a complete national free white pages directory search for both private numbers and business numbers.
Verizon White Pages	The Verizon white pages search tool includes: Verizon people search, Verizon reverse white pages search, and Verizon area and zip code search
WhitePages.com	Whitepages.com allows you to free search for a person, search for an address, conduct a reverse white pages search or find a business.
WhoWhere	Business and residential numbers for the USA, search by name and place
WorldPages	Another US national yellow pages and business whitepages directory.
Yahoo White Pages	Yahoo white pages.  A great peoplefinder that will help you find people anywhere in the US by entering their name.
YellowBook.com	Find businesses through the yellow pages business phone book.
Fax Number Directories
Infospace	Fax numbers from USA and Canada, based on Pro-CD's CDROMs
Toll-Free Telephone Number Directories
The Internet 800 Directory	Toll-free numbers, includes non-AT & T customers.
Regional Telephone Number Directories
McLeodUSA Publishing	Yellow page directories and white pages directories, mostly for the Midwest.