Find People for Free Using These Six Search Engines

If you want to find people for free, you’re in luck – finding people online is one of the most popular activities on the Web today. Using free tools, anyone can track down an address or a phone number, find a long-lost classmate, or browse images.  This article will showcase six search tools that focus on finding only people-related information.

Note: at the time of this writing, all the information in these resources is absolutely free. Read Should I Pay To Find People Online? why we don’t recommend paid resources. Also – if you find something here (or anywhere on the site) that is not correct, please use the Contact form to let me know.

Pipl is a search tool that scours the Invisible Web for data.  Pipl searches across social networking services, search engines, databases, etc. to find information that might not be found in a generalized search engine query.

Wink gathers data from typical sources as well as social media. As this search engine gathers snippets of information across different sources, Wink could be a good choice to continue to put together a complete dossier.

Facebook is  one of the world’s largest social networks with millions of users, so it makes sense to recommend Facebook as a tool to find people online for free. You can use Facebook to search for people from your past – work colleagues, friends from elementary school, and college roommates.

Facebook can also be useful for finding people in your local area, as well as gatherings, associations, clubs, or groups. While many people keep their Facebook profiles private (meaning that information is only visible to those in their immediate circles of friends and family), many other people do not, which makes it easier to find their information in a search.

PeekYou allows users to search for usernames across a variety of social networking communities. There’s an astonishing amount of information you can dig up on someone using only their username. Read ​How to Track Someone Using Only a Username for more information.

LinkedIn gives users the ability to search through professional networks. LinkedIn profiles can reveal much about someone: where they work, who they work with, their former positions, current or former supervisors, any kind of recommendations they might have received, and much more.

Find people for free with Zabasearch, a free people search engine that uncovers public information and public data. Everything found at Zabasearch is pulled from public domain information, such as databases, court records, and phone directories.