People Search by Email Address – How to Perform People Search by Email

Performing people search by email address is not that simple as it seems.

As a matter of fact, in today’s world people perceive giving an email address to the public something like giving their REAL address. It’s just enough for you to leave your email on some website and soon enough you’ll receive tons of spam.

I know, I know…

With all that said let’s take a look at some of the services that allow you to do a reverse email search.

The first one is Yahoo Search located at people.yahoo.com. You can enter the person’s first and last name and you’ll get their email. Unfortunately this service does not work so well.

Maybe there is a better way? Does the person you’re looking for has an online presence? You probably heard of hi5.com. Try to go to their main website and in the upper right corner enter the email address. I don’t know about you but I’ve located HUNDREDS of profiles from people I didn’t even know and which appeared on my MSN or Skype.

Also, MySpace is another great service that offers reverse email search! Just go to search.myspace.com and under the box “Find a friend” select email. Interesting, eh?

I don’t know of any smaller social networking websites but I’m pretty sure they have reverse email searches too.

The thing is…people that leave their email in a public web space are RARE. However, MANY PEOPLE leave their real email when registering on websites like MySpace and hi5 thus making it easy for you to locate them if the only detail you have about them is the email address.

Also try a simple Google or Yahoo search. That sometimes helps too.

AVOID paid reverse email services because I’m afraid that will do the things I told you to do previously…just automatically. They will search through all major social networks, display you the result and charge money for that. It’s not that they have some “secret” database of all the email details in the world like they want you to think.

The only good paid service that can search for emails is Email Finder Pro but even without it you can search the major social networks for free like I told you. It’s really simple. It may take more time though.