# Recommend me a people search website

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-people-search-website/628264>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 15, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-people-search-website/628264 "2012-07-15T00:55:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-people-search-website/628264/1 "2012-07-15T00:55:25Z")

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My husband needs to find a website that allows him to search for people’s names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. for work but all of the free options ([whitepages.com](http://whitepages.com) and the like) are not very good. Has anyone here ever used a site, either a free site or one that charges for this kind of thing, that they could recommend? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-people-search-website/628264/2 "2012-07-15T01:12:30Z")

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[Switchboard.com](http://Switchboard.com)

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**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-people-search-website/628264/3 "2012-07-15T01:43:06Z")

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[Pipl.com](http://Pipl.com)

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-people-search-website/628264/4 "2012-07-15T02:05:05Z")

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Ah, the old “need to do this for work” excuse. Does that still work? 😃

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**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-people-search-website/628264/5 "2012-07-15T19:48:57Z")

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> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Ah, the old “need to do this for work” excuse. Does that still work? 😃

😛

He works in development and fundraising so he needs to be able to look up this sort of stuff. Or at least that is what he tells me, he might be getting a regular paycheck for stalking or something I suppose.