Five Best People-Search Engines by Jason Fitzpatrick, Lifehacker (Jan 25)
These five were proposed by readers at Lifehacker:
+ Pipl - "Pipl scours databases and indexes that standard search engines normally don't touch. "
+ Google web search - just be sure to add words to identify the person
+ Facebook - "By Facebook's count, 150 million active users frequent the site, about a third of which are in the United States."
+ Spock - multiple sources, notification options.
+ 123people - uses blogs and public profiles. Picks up images.
Other readers recommended
+ zabasearch - picks up public record information in the US
+ LexisNexis - premium research
To these add Zoominfo - smart search, finds and aggregates deep information to create profiles. Very good for identifying the person through professional connections. Advanced search allows narrowing to cities and states / provinces in the US and Canada.
Posted by Gwen at January 27, 2009 12:29 PM