WhitePages.com

Author: Kalicia Bateman

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The Good

• Search functions

White Pages has a solid basic people search function. Their tool was very easy-to-use and robust search tool that provided the following:

• People Search, helping find a person's full name, address, and city.
• A business search function, helping find the contact information for a business.
• A reverse phone search that let's you find the phone number's carrier and city.
• A reverse address search featuring all the contact names associated with a particular address.

White Pages also offers reverse phone search, business search and address search in addition to their basic search. Their pro edition offers more searches.

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The Bad

• Outside agencies
• Opting out

To get a background check on a person, the search engine directs to www.intstantcheckmate.com. In other words, they use outside agencies to support some of their services. To opt out of White Pages policy of disseminating information for advertising purposes is to must click on one of the third party services that they use, such as a do-not-call registry, to block your personal information for advertising purposes.

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The Bottom Line

If you are looking for a name, phone number, address, or other similar contact information for a person or business, we recommend White Pages for its basic search functionality and its mobile apps. We were concerned though about third party sharing and outsourcing information from other sites like www.instantcheckmate.com and Spokeo. This site, in some situations, reveals just how much personal information is shared across the information commerce industry.