We all know by now -unless we are just back from another planet- that Google is the world's number 1 information platform and it is universally accessible. When you visit Google.com or one of the dozens of other Google domains, you are able to find information in many different languages and lookup phonebook listings for every city in the World. It is naturally the best place to start you reverse phone lookup. Google being the number one search engine, it gathers millions of information. The only thing you need to do to start your reverse phone search with Google is to type the number using quotation marks at the beginning and the end and you are good to go.

When you put the number in quotation marks, you are doing an "exact match" search. That means that it allows you to determine the exact number of results for the telephone number you have typed within quotation marks.

Back in the days, The Yellow Pages and Big Foot were the number one places where people headed to when it came to searching for phone numbers. However, with the internet era, those two sites have become obsolete.

You can now do a narrower search with the use internet as you can not only find a name behind a number but you can also find the location of the person.

A new world of possibilities is opening up. You can get in touch with lost friends or find out who have given you prank calls pretty easily. With Google's help you can identify a person and locate them in a matter of seconds.

However, keep in mind that when you search a phone number using a free reverse phone directory or a search engine like Google, you might be unsuccessful if the number is a cell phone number.

If the person has posted their number on social networking sites such as MySpace, Face Book or Orkut you might get lucky but that often does not correspond to the norm.

The main reason why reverse cell phone lookups are becoming more difficult to perform is because of more stringent privacy laws, that make the action of publishing a cell phone number illegal.

If Google proves to be unsuccessful, your best option to do a reverse phone lookup search is to use a professional service. Do not worry, you can access many of these professional services and for a small fee, you can perform unlimited searches and have access to unpublished, date, personal records, criminal history and, of course cell phone numbers.