192.com

When you first start to use this site it does make you think just how much personal information about you is available from the Internet. 192.com has access to the full UK Electoral register, plus a residential listing that it boasts contains over 55 million records. This is a very comprehensive listing and works extremely fast. This is a great site for finding people that may have moved house, or you have lost contact with. You are allowed up to 20 free searches each month and this seems to be enough (apart from when you first join and want to find every distant relative you have in the UK) ... more

192.com is an excellent web site and boasts to be the largest uk directory enquiry service. It uses the electoral role and telephone directory as its data base and enables you to find business or people easily. I used it to try and find the address of an old university friend who I had lost contact with, all I did was type in her name and the county I thought she was living in and low and behold her address popped up. You can register for free and are entitled to 20 searches for free. The site even provides you with maps of the located person or business. I'd recommned this site to anyone. ... more

I was amazed to come accross this site giving most electoral roll entries and directory enquiry listings for the UK. The service provided by 192 is absolutely great! The site is extremely easy to navigate and use. The only drawback is that you only get 20 free searches per month and these searches are limited to electoral roll searches where you need the name of the person you are looking for and the town where the reside, and directory enquiries, similar to BT Phone Net. The only other drawback being that the information accessable is all from 1999-2000, a year out of date but hey what do ya ... more

What a rip-off ! I bought six credits and like most people only needed to use one straight away. Just a month a few days later I went to use another credit to find that the other 5 had expired. How can they take away from you something you are pretty much forced to buy in the first place? So it cost me £9.95 to do one search - you can imagine how I feel about that. I used BT website today to get the information on the second search - for free. On their website it says "Your comments are important to us and help us improve the service we offer" - however their reply to my complaint was that I ... more