Review Of Detective Software

Detective

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.

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.

Detective Software

Everything you see on the your computer is created by software. But, software may reside on your computer or it may reside on a server.

People who maintain the software on a web server can update what everyone sees with a few simple operations. Data can be quickly updated, links changed, and new information can be added to a database.

But, with software located on your computer, you will need to download the latest version in order to access the latest information. This is a lot more troublesome that simply accessing the latest details on a server.

Net Detective is better than a simple software program on your computer. Net Detective is totally online. You use it while connected to the Internet with your Web browser like Internet Explorer or Netscape.

Net Detective with its online, up-to-date databases, is better than a software program that quickly gets old as the Internet grows. Net Detective is always up-to-date. You never loose out on the latest sources of information.