People Search Engines

Data brokers aggregate public records, marketing data, and scraped profiles into searchable people profiles. Fast leads, but noisy and error-prone.

Sources

• Aggregators — Spokeo, BeenVerified, Whitepages, TruePeopleSearch, FastPeopleSearch, Pipl (business/investigator tier), That'sThem. Coverage is strongest in the US.
• Public records — voter files (where lawful), county court and property records, business filings (→ corporate-registries), obituaries, and alumni directories.
• Region-specific — most countries have their own registries and phone directories; the US-centric brokers won't cover them.

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