With more than 1.44 billion active users, besides to being a social media, Facebook has also been evolved as one of the most powerful people search engines in the recent years.
It offers more powerful search mechanisms to its logged in users using which, you can find, people, groups, photos, post, pages, events and almost anything. In the past, there were many useful tools that helped to do Facebook search for people without logging in. But everything got closed due to the legal reasons. They are no more exist. The main reason for this restriction is, Facebook wants everyone to stay connected to their network, it just don’t want anyone to be an outsider.
Anyways, here are some simple ways to help you to conduct the Facebook search without login id.
Using these methods, you can find people, pages, group or anything on Facebook. But to see their photos, profiles and shared items, you have to sign up for the service.To sign up with Facebook, all you need is, just a valid email id and a phone number for verification. (You can make these details available only to yourself). Uploading a profile and other info are not even mandatory.
Facebook Search For People Without Logging In
Method 1: Use Facebook People Search
Search Parameter: Name of the person
One of the simplest ways to find people on Facebook is available on Facebook itself. Enter the name of the person you are looking for and hit enter. Facebook will show you up to 10 profiles that match with your search term. So making your search more efficient by adding the person’s city, employer, educational institution or any other additional info will increase the possibility of finding the person you are looking for. Using this method, you can take a glimpse at their favorites, personal preferences and possibly the display picture but nothing more. If you want any more info, you will have to login with a Facebook id!
Search Url : https://www.facebook.com/people-search.php
Method 2: Use Facebook Directory
Search Parameter : None or Name of the person or place or pages
Sometimes apart from people, you would also want to find the pages/places or topics. Use this search in all such scenarios.
It is like Yellow pages for Facebook. You can see 3 different tabs bearing the label people, pages, and places. Simply browse through the letters as if you are searching a directory or run a search by entering the name of people/ business name in the search box.
Unlike in the Facebook people search, this method will list out all the profiles with matching names. When it comes to pages, since most of them are 100% public, you can see all the items shared so far but to like or comment, it will ask you to login.
Why Couldn’t You Spot Few People’s Profile Through This search?
People can opt out their profile from appearing in this search by doing simple changes to the privacy settings. However, most of the Facebook users do not aware of such features. So you have the most probability to find the profile you are looking for. Good luck!
Search Url : https://www.facebook.com/directory/
Method 3: Google Search
Search String Format : “Site:Facebook.com Name”
Just like the regular queries you can also conduct your Facebook people search for people or pages using Google. Enter the search string “Site: Facebook.com Name” by replacing “Name” with the profile or business name of your choice. Google will show you all the matching profiles. However, clicking on the result will again redirect you to the result page of “Facebook people search”. The rest are self-explanatory.
Method 4: Use Google Social Search
As you want to do Facebook search for profiles without logging in, utilizing the social search engine like “social-searcher.com“ would make your quest even more interesting. This tool is like a search engine for social media. When you enter the brand name or person’s name in the search box, it will show all matching accounts with their all recent activities from nearly 10 different social media websites.
If you own a company and want to find out who love it, what people are talking about your brand, who share great content, there can’t be another good way exist than using this tool.
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Method 5: Use Browser Add-ons
When you search someone on Facebook without account, to be frank, there are not so many methods are available. Only a few. Using browser add-on is one of them.
Since Firefox and chrome are used by the majority of users here, I have listed add-ons only for those. However , if you are interested in knowing the best social add-on for any other browser, please let me know. I will add those too.
1.Facebook – All-in-one Internet Search
Total Downloads So Far: 20141227 (In Firefox alone)
Not only for the searchers but this add-on is also useful for all the creative minds, artists and dreamers. This add-on is also available on IOS and Android platforms. I am not going to bore you by explaining every tiny detail. Go, explore yourself!
Add To Chrome Add To Firefox
Once it’s installed, it will be added onto your search bar as shown in the image. Enter the search term and start searching. All in one internet search also allows you to search profiles with so many other search terms.
2. People Search Engine
It is yet another Firefox add-on that let you do Facebook people search without logging in.
The Bottom Line
So you can do the Facebook search for people without logging in but there are limitations. Since all these methods use Facebook API, results can only show you the things that are set public. In order to get full access, you have to sign up and send a request to him/her and wait for the approval. No other way around.
The methods listed here are all 100% working at the time of writing this post. If you find any of them is outdated or not working, or If you know some other effective way to perform Facebook people search without an account,please leave your thoughts in the comments section. It would help us improve this post even better.