Did you write down a phone number and forget for whom it was for? Receive a phone call and don't know who made it? Various Internet services offer reverse number lookup, where you can type in a phone number and find the originator.

Now Google offers this, too.

Just enter a phone number in Google's search box. For the USA, you can use format xxx-xxx-xxxx, but other formats may be supported. Google may or may not support other country's phone numbers in other formats, so experiment.

If Google finds a match, it will display the person or business's name and address. Plus Google will show links to web sites that can display maps to the person or business.

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