For Your Information & Reference

Pipl is a people search engine that scours the deep Web for information; basically, what that means is that you're going to get more than just the usual search engine results for whatever name you might be searching for. Pipl searches across social networking services, search engines, databases, etc. to find tidbits you might not usually find on a rudimentary search.

Wink is a free people search engine that searches across what you would find using a regular search engine as well as across social communities, online profiles, etc. You can also use Wink to manage your online presence: "By creating a profile on Wink, you can manage your web presence. Wink allows you to claim and add various places where you are online, and provides you an interface to manage all of them in one place. This gives you the power to determine what people know about you and where you are on the web."

You can use Facebook to search for people you went to high school and college with; Facebook is also great for finding people in specific geographic locations, corporations, pretty much any kind of association that has more than one person on it can be found on Facebook.

PeekYou adds an interesting twist to the world of free people