Search Engines: People Search
The silent revolution of search
Conventional wisdom within ad tech is that search is boring. In the display ecosystem, life is exciting: in the last decade alone, thousands of...
People+, A People Search Directory App, Coming To Google Glass In 2014
People+, a people directory and search app that’s available now on iOS, is coming to Google Glass in 2014. The company bills its service...
Is Being Found Part Of Your Social Media Strategy?
Successful communication is all about getting the right message in front of the right people at the right time. In the first part of this...
The 1940 U.S. Census: Soon, A Searcher’s Treasure Trove
Big news for genealogists, historians and even for people just curious about their own families: the 1940 U.S. Census is now available on the...
How To Track U.S. Congress Members’ Tweets
Many U.S. Senators and Representatives are tweeting opinions, updates, images, documents, etc. these days, and Twitter can be a very useful, if...
Topsy Launches Twitter Expert Search; Better Options Exist
Topsy, the Twitter-focused real-time search engine, has launched a new tool aimed at helping users find the right people to follow called Topsy...
WhitePages.com Debuts Local Biz Search, Goes After Google
Not long ago WhitePages.com quietly introduced its own local business search. The site, the original “people search” engine, has...
Another 5 Search Tools You May Not Know … But Should
Wouldn’t it be great if you could use a search engine without needing to touch your mouse? You know, type your query and then scan and...
Hoping To Improve People Search, Google Launches “Profile Results”
Ever searched for yourself on Google and come away dissatisfied, especially if someone else you share a name with seems to dominate the results?...
Find Friends On Twitter With Twitter People Search
Twitter announced that you can now use their people search feature to find friends, family or colleagues that are using Twitter. For example, I...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...