The Top 10 Online Detective Services of 2006

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Searching for information in an online phone directory can take more time than many of us would like. Then too, quiet as it’s kept, most of us lack the basic expertise needed to perform such searches effectively, much less to conduct background checks on potential dates, employees, apartment tenants or others. Well, help has arrived!

Steve Maclin says that is why he developed his new site, www.best-detective.com. After conducting exhaustive online research, Maclin discovered the need for a website that would provide free, comprehensive evaluations and comparisons of the very best online detective services of the year.

The original idea for the website was that it would be a ‘review site,’ one that would simply compare/ contrast/ review the major online detective services available. In the process of evaluating available services, we noticed an even greater need for a site that would (1) detail its evaluative criteria, (2) provide updated information that would highlight the very best services of a given year, (3) provide immediate access to each of the top services, and (4) provide news and articles related to the most popular keywords used for online people searches (e.g., online investigations, background check, cheating spouse, criminal records, public records, etc). We placed our findings in an even broader context, i.e., of warning users to NOT purchase ANY service until they had read our product reviews, as this would inform them as to what they might reasonably expect from each product/ service.

We found that online detective services are all alike, but only in the most unimportant respects. Where it counts, is where they differ and it helps to have at your fingertips the academic expertise required to evaluate and compare these products as one would compare “apples and apples.” One product, Net Detective, boasts a 211+ million name database of info which is updated every 1-3 months, so users get the most recent data available. Most other such products either offer much smaller databases, rent the use of Net Detective’s database, or simply fail to update. Then, there is the cost. Where many of the top 10 services ask $50 or more, Net Detective offers its award-winning tools for a one-time fee of $29.

If you want to know what you’re getting into before purchasing an online background check service, go to Best Detective, your best all-around source for up-to-the-minute news and information.