At Infobel Canada, you can reverse lookup Yellowpages and Whitepages phone numbers.

Enjoy!

Information regarding MyTelus has been added to the reverse phone number page as well as the reverse area code page. Enjoy!

Q: Where does AnyWho get the directory information?

A: All of the residential white pages are public information
obtained from local telephone records for published telephone
listings. Non-Published directory assistance records are not
provided and are not displayed. None of the listings
contained in the white pages are obtained from AT&T billing
records.

If you would like to opt out of the AnyWho Directory, you must send a letter to the following address:
ATT AnyWho Directory Service
Attention: Listing Removals
P.O. Box 944028
Maitland, FL 32794-4028

To read more information on how to opt out of the AnyWho Directory, check out their Privacy Listing Process.

SuperPages.ca offers some interesting lookup options. For example, their Business Finder allows you to find all businesses at a certain address, or even on the whole street. If you want to look by postal codes instead of addresses, you can! And you can find all businesses within a specific postal code, or in a range of postal codes.

I think these are great marketting lookup tools, to see what businesses are in your area.

The 411.ca services seem to piggy-back off of WhitePages.ca. I’m not sure if the results are exactly the same, but some people may find that the services are easier to use and navigate through.

The services that are offered are: reverse phone lookup, reverse address lookup, reverse area code lookup, and reverse postal code lookup.

To opt out of Google Phonebook, check out the below website:
http://www.google.com/help/pbremoval.html

Basically, how to opt out of the Google Phone book depends on whether or not you’re removing a residential listing or a business listing. If it’s a residential listing, then you can fill out the form on the above web page. If it’s a business listing, you must mail a letter on signed letterhead to the below address:

Google Phonebook Removal
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

But, even if you remove your phone number from Google Phonebook, it’ll still be in other directories. Here’s a warning from Google:

IMPORTANT NOTE: Removing your phonebook listing will not remove your personal information from other pages on the web or from other reverse phone listing lookup services, such as:
Anywho
Switchboard.com
Whitepages.com
Reverse Phone Directory
Phonenumber.com
Smartpages.com

The hack goes indepth and explains the three different syntaxes that Google supports when performing phone number lookups:

• phonebook - searches the entire Google phonebook
• rphonebook - searches residential listings only
• bphonebook - searches business listings only

The authors also offer a number of tips scattered throughout the hack, such as when to use each of the above different types of searches.

If you are interested in doing reverse phone number lookups, Google Phonebook supports this as well. Here’s an example of how to do a reverse phone number lookup:

phonebook:(707) 829-0515

If you are interested in reading more about Hack #17 called “Consulting the Phonebook”, continue on over to the O’Reilly website.

When it comes to modern courtship, cyber-stalking is increasingly part of the pre-date preparation.

About 43 percent of people who answered a dating-service survey said they type their date’s name into the Google search engine before they go out. And 88 percent of those people said they wouldn’t be bothered if their dates did the same thing.

The above quote is from an article on AZCentral called “Googling as dating protection.” Basically, it’s reporting on a study from a few years ago that suggests that as many as half of people that actively date use the search engine to check out a prospective date before going out for real. Sometimes this allows the searcher to learn positive things about their date, but often times also negative things.

This article complements another tip that we previously posted that suggests using Google as your first option when doing reverse lookups of all kinds. Many people use Google to perform reverse lookups of phone numbers, email addresses, and even home addresses.

To read the rest of the article, continue on to AZCentral.

The first thing you need to do is to determine whether or not the phone number of the person is a landline or a cell phone number. Fonefinder.net is a free tool that allows you to quickly find this out.

The next step is to use Google. One of the best sources to do a free reverse look-up for landline numbers is the Google search engine. If you type in the phone number in the format (XXX) XXX-XXXX, the name and address of the owner will often come up in the search engine results. This is often all that is necessary to find the information that you are looking for but if this does not produce a result then there are other tools to consider.

Some of these services are available for free. Here are a few to consider:

Anywho
http://www.anywho.com/rl.html
This site also allows you to type in a phone number for free
and search for a matching name and address.

PhoneNumber.com
http://www.phonenumber.com/reverse_phone.xhtml

SmartPages.com
http://www.smartpages.com/whitepages/?wppage=reverse-phone

Whitepages.com
http://www.whitepages.com/1129/reverse-phone

Reverse Phone Directory
http://www.reversephonedirectory.com/
This site allows you to search one phone number in several different online directories, including “White Pages,” “Phone Number,” and “InfoSpace.”

Please bear in mind that the information is only available of the name of the person to whom the phone number is registered. Also none of these sites provide information for cell phone numbers or unlisted numbers.

Okay, so how then do we go about locating the owner of an unlisted number? And what about cell phones - is it possible to find out who a particular cell phone number belongs to? Reverse cell phone lookup has always been more difficult than reversing landline numbers.

Well you could consider one of the many commercial “private detective services” that will help locate someone for you. Prices vary but typically you could pay $85 or more for this type of service. Usually the company will offer a refund if they cannot obtain the information for you.

There is one another option and that is to become your own private detective! The key here is to learn how to access the various online databases that are used by private investigators, law firms, police departments, businesses and individuals all around the world. Examples of some of these online databases include State and County public records, Court records, credit reports and so on. These records will often yield the information that you are looking for.

Irene Graham writes for www.Ist-Web-Detective.com where you can learn more about how to reverse lookup phone numbers Please feel free to use this article in your Newsletter or on your website. If you use this article, please include the resource box.