Pipl.com: People Search Engine So Good, It Will Scare Your Pants Off, by Roi Carthy, TechCrunch (Jan 29)
Pipl is gaining recognition for its people search capabilities, especially in the US.
"It produces not only links to all of your profiles on social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn, blog mentions, and photos on Flickr. It finds mentions of your name in public records, including property records, SEC filings, and birth databases. It also finds e-mail addresses and summarizes “quick facts” about the person."
It has 'deep web' capabilities - penetrating databases and digging deeply into a site beyond the reach of a standard search engine.
On searching on my name I was astonished to see a record from Amicus of a co-presentation I did in 1995 on business information resources on the Internet. However, you really need to know the person well enough to pick through the results.
Posted by Gwen at February 1, 2009 04:00 PM