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Jun. 10, 2008 at 10:38am by Greg Sterling
McCain Using Google To Vet VP Candidates
According to Reuters, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain is using Google as a tool to do background checks on potential running mates: "You know, basically it's a Google," he said to laughter at a fund-raising luncheon when asked how the selection process was going. "What you can find out now...
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Apr. 22, 2008 at 10:52am by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Including Facebook Profile Images In Search Results
The Digital Inspiration blog is reporting that Facebook profile images are now appearing as thumbnails in general Yahoo search results (as opposed to image search results). I tried several times to find the images, using different people's names along with related phrases including "Facebook profile," and was unable to duplicate...
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Dec. 17, 2007 at 2:20pm by Vanessa Fox
PEW Survey Finds Most People Don't Google Themselves That Often, After All
Marge Simpson Googling Herself "All this time I thought 'googling' yourself meant the other thing." A PEW/Internet Survey out this week found that 47% of internet users have done ego searches, up from 22% five years ago. That nearly half of internet users are searching for themselves seems excessive,...
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Sep. 19, 2007 at 4:29pm by Vanessa Fox
Spock: People Search With A Man + Machine Approach
Last week, I wrote about the overall people search landscape, which, while not new, has been recently expanding and making full use of all that is shiny Web 2.0. Spock is the latest of these services to leverage social networks, intelligent web crawling, and community involvement. Spock launched in private...
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Sep. 12, 2007 at 8:53am by Vanessa Fox
Surveying The People Search Landscape
Can you imagine trying to sort through billions of web pages without a search engine? Inconceivable! They make it easy and fast to find information. Now how about finding one of the six billion people on the planet. Where’s the Google of people search? As it turns out, an entire...
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Sep. 11, 2007 at 10:38am by Danny Sullivan
4 Questions & Answers You Should Know About Facebook's Public Search Listings
Last week, Facebook formally announced that it was making millions of personal profiles accessible to the public via major search engines. As far as I can tell, Facebook members who never intended or expected to be listed this way were suddenly opted-in to Facebook's new plan. I say "as far...
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Sep. 5, 2007 at 9:56am by Danny Sullivan
Facebook Opens Profiles To Tap Into Google Traffic, While Google Grabs Facebook's News Feed Idea
Google is getting a bit more like Facebook by enabling a Facebook-style news feed within its Orkut social networking site, while the king of the walled gardens Facebook acknowledges in actions (rather than words) that it really can't go it alone without search engines like Google, as it prepares to...
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Aug. 8, 2007 at 9:29am by Greg Sterling
People Search Engine Spock Goes Live
In the increasingly popular category of "people search" much-anticipated new search engine Spock launched with a public beta today. It's running very slowly this morning and so it has been challenging to use. However Spock joins a growing list of "vertical" engines focused on the segment such as Zoominfo, Wink,...
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Jul. 6, 2007 at 5:15pm by Danny Sullivan
Facebook One Of The Top Search Engines? I Dunno About That!
I shouldn't -- but I couldn't resist doing a quick poke at Facebook's pronouncement that it is the "most used people search engine on the web." Really? According to? Facebook gives some stats that perhaps back up this claim, but only if you consider Facebook a people search engine. I...
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May. 15, 2007 at 5:31am by Phil Bradley
Pipl - A People Search Engine
Pipl is a people search engine that tries to be a little different. Rather than just go off and hunt for email addresses, this tries to search through the deep/invisible/hidden web to return content that other search engines are going to miss. The interface is simple - type in first...
