To track a person you know and have lost contact with but you have their telephone number, a reverse number search is the best possible way to locate their whereabouts. If you have forgotten the name and address then again, a reverse number search is the way to do it. Usually the most common form of search is the White pages for residential listings where a search can be done for residential addresses and names and the yellow pages for business listings.

It is no more an ideal way to search information about name and address from phone numbers as many people are dependent on just their cell phones and have done away with landlines. So people, many nowadays, don't list their numbers in directories as they used to do earlier.

There are sites that offer to so reverse number search for a fee as they have to collect the information form carriers and upload their databases which is costly. By paying a fee to access their websites and find information online they carry some of the costs paid by the companies. Other websites allow unlimited access for free but the authenticity of the information as well as updated information remains in question since nothing good is usually available for free.

Other sites have come up with advanced software which is the best way to find people from telephone numbers. These methods are ideal for those who are not so internet savvy and not at all good navigating around search engines to get their information from a reverse number search. With the right software it is very easy to extract information from a cell phone number and not at all time consuming.

Search engines like MSN, Yahoo or others can offer searches for landlines, but not cell phones unless the information of owners and their whereabouts are listed somewhere on the internet.

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