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Let's face it. Everyone wants detective work to be easy. Nobody wants to pay $120 an hour for a professional detective to use their expert knowledge to quickly find out the real dirt on someone else.

You probably want to be a "detective" and get all your information with a few clicks of a mouse. While there is a lot of information about people available online, detective programs can often only point you in the right direction.

Detective work usually involves:

• Finding people,
• Getting various existing records that details a person's past activities, and
• Monitoring a person's current activities.

You may be interested in detective activities because you think your husband or wife is cheating. You may want to find out something about a potential date. There are hundreds of reasons to be interested in detective work.

If you want to monitor a person's current activities you'll need at least one Surveillance Device. These devices can record phone conversations, track vechile locations, display computer activity, detective bugs or listening devices and more.

If you want to locate court records, DMV records, marriage or divouce records, or other government records you'll need to know where to look. Many government records are still on paper and are located in specific places. Just about any "detective" program can tell you where these records are and how to access them.

If you want to locate individuals, only Net Detective has an exclusinve database of U.S. residents. It contains over 400,000 records on over 211 million individuals. This extensive database can help you locates deadbeat parents, long lost loves, or other people you've lost touch with.

Net Detective Overview

Net Detective is the standard against which all other detective software should be measured. Since 1996, Net Detective has been upgraded and enhanced to provide the most complete, up-to-date resources available.

Net Detective has developed an exclusive online database of US residents for you can search. It provides searchable data from phone records, voting records, PO Box records, and many other databases. With Net Detective you can search more than 211,461,546 U.S. residents using over 400,000 database records.

Yes, this costs the Net Detective developers a lot of money. That's why the free search sites cannot provide this information.

Net Detective Search Results

Here are some results from a search for Mike Wendland, a contributor to the Detroit Free Press. You can see that only Net Detective captures PO Box addresses and displays other residents living at the addresses found.

Search Tool	People Found	Listed Household Residents	Listed Phone Number	Finds PO Box Holders
Net Detective	3	Yes	Yes	Yes
Switchboard.com	1	No	Yes	No
AnyWho.com	1	No	Yes	No
InfoSpace.com	1	No	Yes	No
WhitePages.com	1	No	Yes	No
WhoWhere.com	2	No	Yes	No
people.yahoo.com	2	No	Yes	No

If you are looking for a person, doing a background check, or just want to know something about your neighbor, Net Detective will give you the results you want.

Can Net Detective Find Mike Wendland?

How does Net Detective's people search facility compare to free search tools available on the Internet?

We'll search for Mike Wendland, a technical writer for the Detroit Free Press.

Mike wrote an article comparing Net Detective with other search facilities such as switchboard.com and anywho.com.

Here are the actual results from a comparison I did on June 4, 2004.

Can Net Detective Find Mike Wendland?

In the People Search Facility we'll select to search by Name. Here we enter Mike's name and state into Net Detective's people search facility:

Notice I used "Michael Wendland" instead of "Mike Wendland". Net Detective uses databases such as voting records, PO Box owners that have real names rather than nicknames.

Here are the results of our search:

Net Detective found three "hits" for Mike Wendland. Let's look at each one:

This first one is not the Mike Wendland of the Free Press. But, notice that Net Detective can find PO Boxes from the public records.

But the second one is our real target:

The third Mike Wendland shows

What Can We Find for Free?

Sow, now let's compare what can be found on the Internet for free.

Let's look at Switchboard.com. We'll enter the same information as we gave Net Detective:

Switchboard finds only one Mike Wendland. In this case it's the "right" Mike Wendland.

Now lets look at Whowhere.com. Again we'll enter the same information as before:

This time we get two results:

Overview of Search Results

Search Tool	Number Found	Listed Household Residents	Listed Phone Number	Finds PO Box Holders
Net Detective	3	Yes	Yes	Yes
Switchboard.com	1	No	Yes	No
AnyWho.com	1	No	Yes	No
InfoSpace.com	1	No	Yes	No
WhitePages.com	1	No	Yes	No
WhoWhere.com	2	No	Yes	No
people.yahoo.com	2	No	Yes	No

This comparison tests only the People Search capabilities of Net Detective against free searches on the Internet. Net Detective can help you a many different ways.