Thursday, January 29, 2009

Finding Out About Reverse Phone Lookup Sites

By Shedi Alisino

There are many people who are amazed by the newest techology sweeping the internet, reverse phone lookups. Actually, you have been able to do a reverse phone number lookup for quite some time. There are many phone books in cities that even have all the numbers in their database, listed in numerical order, so you can find the number and see who the number belongs to. The important change is that you can now even find a number that has been unlisted or is currently unlisted. You can also for the most part find cell phone numbers, and we all know how difficult that can be.

You typically will not find what you are looking for when entering a reverse phone number search into a typical search engine. We will explain in detail lataer how the reverse number lookup databases work but for now we will explain what they are and how they can be used. Are you wondering about that blind date you are going on? Did they give you an accurate address? Do you just want to check up on them? Are you a landlord screening potential tenants? Are you looking for someone who has skipped out on rent? If you have a telephone number for the people, you can find out where they are located, just by knowing a few simple pieces of information such as their current phone number and first, last name. You might need to do a little digging, but getting the information you need is just a click away.

The telephone search directories get their information from databases that are not accessible by the search engines. Anytime someone buys a magazine subscription or puts their number anywhere in a database, it can be found in these databases. The system can determine whether it is a cell phone number by the digits that are contained in the number. Cell phones typically use a range of prefixes that identity them as cell phones. Once a match is made with a person's name, the system can determine if it is a landline or cell phone.

Databases are getting better at each passing day. They are constantly changing and being updated. If you can not find a number in there today, chances are real good that you will be able to in the future. If you get obscene calls, or just calls you do not want to hear, or wonder who they are, you now have the capability to find out who these people are. - 16747

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