What good is Yahoo people search? It just tells you they found and unlised number and then want you to pay.?

Question

using another service. At one time it use to work and you could find a phone number or address for free like it says but doesn't seem to be that way anymore.

Answer 1

Every once in a while People search will come up with the information I need, but I agree with you--usually it's a come-on trying to get you to hire someone and pay for what you used to get quite reliably for free.

There doesn't seem to be any rhyme nor reason for who you can get results for and who you can't.  Sometimes I get no answer for the person if I use the initials for the first and middle names, but I do get results for the name spelled out.  Or I get no result for the husband, but I do for the wife.

I've noticed that reverse phone directories also don't work as well as they used to.  I guess it's all about people finding out they can make money doing things and making sure you can't do them for free anymore.