Free People Search Engines

If you are looking for someone in particular, there are a number of free people search engines you can use for a people search which provide highly filtered results, so you don't have to spend time picking through millions of normal search engine results:

• WikiWorldBook
• Yahoo People Search
• Pipl
• Wink
• Spock
• PeekYou
• Zaba Search
• ZoomInfo.
  

Tracing People

Remember that WikiWorldBook also has Trace facility whereby you input the name of the person you are looking for and it generates a result for that person on all the Search Engines – then if the person who is the target of the “trace” sees the result (or even one of their acquaintances), then they will know someone is searching for them and can respond. Its a bit like travellers putting a note on a noticeboard in a busy cafe used by other travellers so that people passing can see it - in this case the search engines are acting like the cafe as a place to post your "missing" notice.