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Although this may not be Social Engineering, its good to know if you plan on d0xing or using someones info to possibly social engineer information or items from said person.

1. Pipl (great for searching people around the world)
http://pipl.com/
What does it do: Pipl is also one of the best free people search engines. Gets data from various sources and displays them on one page where you can see online profiles, blog posts that person made, archives and other valuable information.

2. AddressSearch
http://addresssearch.com/
What does it do: This is a pretty new people search service. You can search by name and find the email of someone. However, there’s a (nice) catch: you cannot view the full email but can always send a message to the person via their system. The best thing: unlike many of the sites here, this one is (so far) 100% free.

3. Facebook Friend Search and Friend Browser (login required)
https://www.facebook.com/srch.php
What does it do: Facebook is free to search and also free to register (I bet you didn’t know this). They recently introduced a new feature called “Friend Browser” (link above, you need to be logged in to access this feature) where you can easily find friends from high school, your previous workplace and so on. You can also use the standard “Friend Search” (first link above) and browse over 500 million active members.

4. KGBPeople
http://www.kgbpeople.com/search-settings
What does it do: KGBPeople is a very robust engine for finding people and their social networking accounts, web data, pictures and so on.

5. Tweepz
http://tweepz.com/
What does it do: Search for people on Twitter by name, profession, religious background and many other criteria. Twitter grows every day and so the number of people registered there.

6. Spokeo
http://www.spokeo.com/
What does it do: Spokeo supports locating individuals by name and username. Unfortunately, searching by phone and email is not free (but there are many othere which do that!)

7. Lullar (great for reverse email lookup)
http://com.lullar.com/
What does it do: Lullar is a seldom-known reverse email and username search engine. They have a good ability to do a reverse email lookup (using the 16 most popular social networking sites) and there isn't any free website doing a better job on this.

8. Username Check
http://checkusernames.com/
What does it do: If you know that the person you’re searching for has an unique username you can use this tool to search by that criteria and see where is he registered. Browses over 160 social networks.

9. TinEye
http://www.tineye.com/
What does it do: With TinyEye you can search by PICTURE. Yeah, seriously. If you have a picture of a person and you want to see where that picture appears elsewhere on the web this is a great tool. They currently index 1 billion images and although this is a very small portion of the web but the index grows rapidly every month. Use this tool only if you have a lot of pictures of the individual.

10. Yasni
http://www.yasni.com/
What does it do: Yasni is a mind-blowing resource that you can use to find people by name. Pretty decent resource.
Find Classmates & Workplace and Military Friends

11. Jigsaw
http://www.jigsaw.com/
What does it to: Do you know where the person you’re looking for was/is currently working at? In that case, you can use Jigsaw (which is probably the biggest business directory) to search by company and find that person’s phone number.

12. Alumni.net
http://www.alumni.net/
What does it do: Alumni provides a list of alumni websites all over the world to help find your classmates. It is the biggest website on the internet of its kind. Often updated with current information on individuals.

13. Classmates
http://www.classmates.com/
What does it do: Classmates is a big people search engine to help you find your friends from college, workplace and military.

14. ZoomInfo
http://www.zoominfo.com/
What does it do: Zoominfo will search for large range of employees for different companies. Use this site to find professionals and workplace friends.


Find People using White Pages Directories

15. White Pages
http://www.whitepages.com/
What does it do: White Pages is the most popular directory to search for a person’s address and phone numbers. You can also do a reverse phone and address search so if you know the address or the phone, you can easily find the name.

16. AnyWho
http://www.anywho.com/whitepages
What does it do: Although it has a smaller database to WhitePages, it contains some information about people that White Pages does not currently have. Use them in a combination.

17. ZabaSearch
http://www.zabasearch.com/
What does it do: This is a bit of a different website than the previous two. Here you can also find addresses and phone numbers like in Anywho and Whitepages. Sometimes they display different data than White Pages, but that is not often.


Find Maiden Names and Relatives

18. PeopleFinders.ws
http://www.people-finders.ws/processor.asp
What does it do: If you go on PeopleFinders.ws and start searching, you’ll find the potential relatives of the person you’re looking for and their approximate age. You will also see the possible roommates/associates. Powerful stuff.

19. US Search
http://www.ussearch.com/consumer/index.jsp
What does it do: This is a website for background checks *(not free)*. However there are some excellent free functions they provide. If you type a person’s name, in the results you’ll see previous names of the person. Often if you’re looking for a married female you can find her maiden name this way (or if you don’t know her married but know the maiden name.) You will also see previous locations.

Find People using Public Records

20. Public Records Finder
http://www.publicrecordfinder.com/
What does it do: If you scroll down below you’ll see a list of public records by state. There you have thousands of websites that provide free public records.

21. Infobel
http://www.infobel.com/en/world/index.aspx
What does it do: Infobel is by far the world’s largest directory of white pages resources. Use it for international people search.

22. Ancestry – Social Security Death Index
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693
What does it do: Search people by their social security number and see if they’re still alive. Or you can use this search engine to find deceased people and do further research.

23. Criminal Searches
 http://www.criminalsearches.com/
What does it do: This was the only free criminal records engine. You can search for a person and see if they has a criminal record.
Find People Using General Search Engines

24. Google People Search
http://websearch.about.com/od/peoplesearch.htm
What does it do: You can use Google to enter a phone number (this is only for United States) and it will give you the owner of that number. You can also search for a person using Google. Just make sure you surround the first and last name in quotes. So, write “John Smith” instead of John Smith.

25. Yahoo People Search
http://people.yahoo.com/
What does it do: Yahoo uses their search engine to find people for you. It is a great resource.

26. You Get Signal
http://www.yougetsignal.com/
What does it do: Network location tools, Reverse IP, Whois lookup. You name it, they got it.