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Do you need to locate friends for free? Long lost friends, relatives, neighbors, school friends? Any of these people might be easy to find. It used to be very difficult to try to locate people, but with all the varied free people search engines, it is becoming more and more possible. Just follow these few tips to find your long, lost relatives or friends.

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Locate Friends: Check All Major Search Engines

One way to locate people is to try to search the general search engines, but don't expect that to be everything on the web. It has been estimated that the major search engines only cover about a few percent of the total information on the web. There is a hidden part of the web that one needs to search for hard to find people.

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Best People Search Engines

Bing.com
Major Search Engine.
Google.com
Major Search Engine
Yahoo.com
Major Search Engine.

Search the Deep Web

Think Outside the Box

One way to locate people is to try to search the general search engines, but don't expect that to be everything on the web. It has been estimated that the major search engines only cover about a few percent of the total information on the web. There is a hidden part of the web that one needs to search for hard to find people.

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Check Pipl.com

Check Pipl.Com

Another way to locate friends is to Search Pipl.com. Pipl's search engine searches deep websites that can't be found on normal searches. Most of the higher quality information about people are not on the normal web. Pipl is a people search engine. You do not have to register to use this site. Just type in the name and country. Have fun finding friends. Check out this site for quality information.

Pipl.com

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Locate Friends: 123People.com

Another new way to locate friends is to Search 123People.com. This is an interesting, free search engine to help you locate people and add your own knowledge. You can add info to every search. This search engine checks videos, social networking sites, wikipeidia profiles, and international profiles.
123people.com
Check out this website.

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Do you think these sites are an invasion of privacy?

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Yes-- The internet is quickly doing away with everyone's right to privacy.

No--In this hectic world, it is important to find friends we once knew.

LiteraryMind says:

As long as they are used for good and not evil, they are great. Pretty much anything can be abused today if it falls in the wrong hands.

RenaissanceWoman2010 says:

Anyone who is living in this age of credit cards and the Internet has very little expectation of privacy. We leave a long trail whether we want that or not. It's just a reality.

BusyMOM says:

If people truly didn't want to be found, they would somehow block all of their information from being published on the web. So...

skiesgreen says:

No, not if youn don'tmind being found. It would be different if you were hiding out but then oyu would not have your information on the web.

cffutah says:

haven't gone to these sites yet but so much stuff is public these days, you can just about find anyone now a days.

 
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Do You Have Any Ideas on Locating Friends?

  • cathywoodosborn Mar 15, 2012 @ 2:12 pm | delete
    I appreciate these tips because it is frustrating to try to find someone when search engines typically send one to 'paid' sites.
  • XxSadieLadyxX Jan 29, 2012 @ 3:12 pm | delete
    You have missed two very informative sites. I recommend checking out and possibly adding to this lense both Spokeo.com and peekyou.com. I use them both often
  • RenaissanceWoman2010 Jan 26, 2012 @ 5:51 pm | delete
    Thank you for these resources. It was interesting to try out the Pipl.com search engine. I wasn't aware of it before visiting here. I do appreciate the ease with which one can find people and resources online (especially when doing genealogy searches) for legitimate purposes. Of course, some people have motives that are not so pure.
  • BusyMOM Jan 9, 2012 @ 8:25 pm | delete
    schoolfeed.com and of course, Facebook is a good one.
  • DANCINGCOWGIRLDESIGN Jan 6, 2012 @ 2:36 am | delete
    I have found so many people on Facebook and it seems like the ball just keeps rolling. That is my best resource for finding and being found. It is easy to keep up to date with most everyone.
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