The process of browsing through the yellow pages for finding contact details of a person, where it is alphabetically listed, is a long practiced procedure.
For this procedure, it requires that we know the name of the person, to find his or her contact details.
Reverse phone lookup is a technology, which performs the reverse process.
It enables us to know the name, address and basic contact details of a person, just by entering that person's phone number.
There are several online tools which deliver this service and enable us to search the very basic contact details of a person by entering his or her phone number.
Some of these services are offered for free, while a small fee is charged for using the others.
The fee seems to be a reasonable pay for the powerful search engines, which optimizes our search and delivers good output.
Searching details of a landline number is a lot easier than searching for a cell phone number, as cell phone numbers are not as widely listed as the landline numbers.
We can quickly browse through a database of millions of national public records, to generate comprehensive and detailed contact information of the person we are looking for.
This service is highly useful in cases where we need to know the address of a person, shop or an organization, whose phone number we possess.
It is highly useful for finding the address for sending out party, wedding and other ceremonial invitations to friends and colleagues.