You may frequently receive phone calls from numbers that you do not recognize. Without a caller ID app, it’s impossible to know exactly who’s calling because it’s just a string of numbers.
Even with a caller ID app, if the number isn’t in the provider’s database, they won’t tell you who it is. So you wonder who is actually calling?
There’s actually a pretty easy way to find this information, through a Google reverse phone number lookup .
sure how to find your mystery caller?
Read on and we’ll show you how to find out once and for all who’s blowing up your phone! Let’s go straight to the tutorial.
Reverse search
It can be as simple as typing the number or copying and pasting it into a search engine, such as Google.
Unfortunately, these results do not always come back easily.
Sometimes you get the identity of your mystery caller almost immediately, and other times the number and identity are lost in a sea of thousands of other numbers.
However, with a little more effort and digging, Google is a great place to get the information you need.
In fact, Google made it very easy to find the identity of a caller. They ran a service calleddirectory operator, where you could type in a number and you immediately got the information you wanted.
However, as privacy concerns grew on the internet, many people began asking Google to remove their directory operator information.
Which ultimately led to Google shutting down the service altogether in 2010.
That said, even though Google has discontinued this wonderful service, it’s still entirely possible to perform a reverse lookup by phone number.
Running a reverse search by phone number is as simple as typing the full number that called you into the search engine, along with the area code.
If the phone number that called you is a business number, it should appear almost immediately as one of the first results, if not at the side of the page with all the information associated with that business i.e. say:
It could be an ” Ah-ha!” when you remember that you ordered something from a store. They had problems with the order and needed to contact you.
You can Google the number, but if that person hasn’t posted the phone number anywhere online, you probably won’t find that person’s identity. But, if the number was posted on or attached to their Facebook account, you might see the Facebook profile appear in the bottom of the results.
Social networks
Another quick way to find the identity of a caller is to put the phone number in the search bar of the social networking site of your choice, such as Facebook or Twitter.
If that user has their phone number associated with their account and their public profile, you should be able to find your mystery caller almost immediately.
As you might have already imagined, performing a reverse search by phone number is not something that will always work when you enter the number into Google.
It’s really a coincidence.
For businesses, the number almost always appears. But, when it comes to personal numbers, you never know if you’re actually going to be able to find the person’s identity.