Social Networking Search Tools

Social networking websites function like an online community of internet users.  Depending on the website in question, many of these online community members share a common interest such as hobbies, religion, or politics.  Once you are granted access to a social networking website you can begin to socialize.  This socialization may include reading the profile pages of other members and possibly even contacting them.

Are you looking for a long lost relative or friend in social networks,  then here are some free resources to trace people online.

YoName is one free website that searches through a list of over thirty popular  social networks including MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster, Youtube, Digg, Hi5, Yahoo, Xanga, Twitter, LiveJournal, Last.fm, Blogger, Live Spaces, Rediff and more

Wink offers the Web's largest free people search engine to help you find the people you are looking for. You can search for people across the web and white pages from over 400 million profiles to help you find old friends, locate relatives, and reconnect with former classmates or coworkers. You can even search for people in our directory to conduct research before a job interview or business meeting.

Keeping up-to-date with all of your friends' activities across various parts of the social web can be a pain and that's where Spokeo hopes to make life a little easier.Spokeo has support for over 20 of the most popular social networks, as well any site that provides an RSS feed.You can also manually add additional people you wish to track, by simply adding each of their profile URLs or blog RSS feeds.

Spock finds all kinds of information like websites, photos, videos, and blogs about people. Go ahead and search for someone, you might be surprised at what you'll find.

Category: Search Engine, Social Network