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There are a few legal and reputable reverse phone lookup companies available online and their fees are quite reasonable. Anyone who has wanted to find an old friend, room mate, lost love or family member cannot go wrong using a quality reverse phone lookup. Just keep in mind that it is quite possible you may be able to do a reverse phone lookup for free and still get the information you need.

It really all depends on what kind of information you are looking for. If you have an old cell phone or previously unlisted number and wish to track an old friend down using a reverse phone lookup, you just might be able to follow the steps below and get exactly what you are looking for using your computer and a couple simple tricks.

We all know about the search engine giant Google. It is massive in size and can find information on just about any subject and give you pretty relevant results quickly. For our purposes today, it will act as the worlds largest phone and address book. Here is what you do to conduct a reverse phone lookup using Google.

You will need to search the telephone number in Google and you will need to enter the number with spaces or with a specific search syntax, as well as a specific operator code most people don’t know exists. Examples are below.

555 555 5555 or phonebook: 555 555 5555

You DO need to input the area code for this to work properly. Just typing the telephone number in will not help you in your reverse phone lookup. This can be frustrating if the number you are looking up is local but unlisted and an area code was not given at the time. Still, without the area code you will have trouble getting good reverse phone lookup data from Google. You DO NOT want to enter hyphens between the numbers even though this may be how you and many others write telephone numbers. Most computers do not pick up the hyphens and toss them aside anyway, whether you type them or not.

Finally, the “phonebook” part of the second search is called an operator, and Google utilizes many that we just do not think of or even know about. For our reverse phone lookup, this operator is appropriate for it will tell Google to look up both business and residential listings for the phone number in question. Depending on what kind of information you get back from your searches will determine what you do next.

As you conduct a reverse phone lookup this way you may get lucky the first time or you may need to do more digging. Google is very powerful and can do a lot of things that reverse phone lookup software does for a fee. If you happen to find an old address for a specific number you can then use Google Maps to get more information or dig deeper into the search in other ways.

Doing a reverse phone lookup this way can be very helpful, but in many tests I conducted it only seemed to pull significant or valuable data for me 30% of the time. By doing a reverse phone lookup this way you are relying on what people you may be looking for have placed on the Internet about themselves and not necessarily real data.

Adam Bauthues has a passion and a love for privacy and tech-related niche topics. His most recent website reviews and discusses reverse phone lookup technologies, and provides some truly free ways to conduct these searches yourself at no cost. His site can be found at: www.ReverseCellPhoneSearch.org