It seems as though phone number research is more popular today than ever before. Perhaps this is because the internet makes it so easy to find the information people are searching for. After all, today there are more search tools and resources available than past generations could have dreamed of. Of course, the best tool for your phone research depends largely on what specific information you're looking for. Depending on your search needs, reverse phone lookups and Google Phonebook can be ideal places to conduct all kinds of phone research.

If you need to track down a friend's phone number, few tools are as easy to find and use as Google Phonebook. Google, the most popular search engine in the world, actually has a phone book utility built right in. To use Google Phonebook, simply type in "phonebook:" and then the name of the person you're trying to locate. If you know a city and state, you can include these as well to help narrow the search, a big help if the person you're trying to find has a relatively common name. This way, you can locate listed land line numbers for people all across the country.

However, if you have a phone number and you're trying to find out who it belongs to, reverse phone lookups are a great way to search. Reverse phone lookups make it a snap to find the name and address of any unknown caller. By clicking search, you can go from ten strange digits to a location and name in just a few moments. Unlike Google Phonebook, which can frequently produce a massive number of results, using a reverse phone look up almost always turns up a single name and address, the exact information you were searching for and nothing else.