BeenVerified uses Web 2.0 and social networking
and
traditional background methods
Users enters the name and/or email address of the person they are requesting information on and are given information from public records and other privately licensed databases of public record information.
The app uses names and email addresses to run background checks through its website, with the capability of checking anyone in a user's contact list.
The People Search engine is designed for the US.
The people search engine
was founded in 2007 in New York City.