How to search for people online

If you are looking for a family member or a friend internet is a good place to start the search. In this article we will explain different techniques and tricks to find people through the Internet. The easiest way is to put the name of your friend or family member on Google but there are other very interesting techniques you can do.

Steps to follow:

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The first place you should go if you want to find people online is Google, enter the full name in the search box. Remember that on the left you have several filtering options that allow you to refine the search. Start by putting the full name of the person you are looking for, if you find the person you are looking for, delete the second name and return. If you do not find it, read this article.

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Use the specialized search engines of people, it can be useful when the name of the person you are looking for is very common. The best known are: 123people.com, yasni.com, pipl.com

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Use the email of the person you are looking for, if you enter the email in the search bar of Facebook and the person you are looking for uses that email to enter Facebook, you will find the person you are looking for. This trick does not work with other social networks.

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Use Google images to find the person you are looking for, sometimes people have been tagged in a photo or a file is named, through Google images you can track the photos on the internet.

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Join the professional networks, linkedin.com and xing.com, in them you can search for people, do not trust that everyone has a public profile because it is not like that. Many people who are on Linkedin are not accessible from outside the web.

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Another option to find people online is to use More options to search for people: Who Is This Person? is a browser add-on that allows you to add to the contextual menu an option that will search information in various engines and directly on social sites. You just have to select the name of a person and make a right click:

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In the case that you only have your picture is much more complicated but there are also services to find people through internet websites such as Gazopa, TinEye or Ideeinc, their efficiency finding anonymous people is quite low. Try to cut it so that only the face is visible.

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If the person you are looking for has an email from your company A visit to mycompany.com could reveal your job and direct telephone, which also allows you to limit the place of residence. If you are not so lucky, you can always do a Whois.sc/mycompany.com to that domain. If the data is public and real, and for most domains, you will have access to your name, address and telephone number.

Tips
  • When you enter the name of the person you are looking for in the search engine, use the quotation marks