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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...

Sponsored Content: LiveRamp | May 24, 2017 at 7:30 am ET

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...

Matt McGee | Oct 18, 2013 at 3:18 pm ET

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...

Sean Carlos | Jun 11, 2013 at 9:19 am ET

 

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...

Gary Price | Apr 12, 2012 at 4:02 pm ET

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...

Gary Price | Jan 19, 2012 at 1:38 pm ET

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...

Matt McGee | Jul 15, 2010 at 1:25 pm ET

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...

Greg Sterling | Jun 24, 2010 at 9:43 am ET

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...

Matt McGee | Apr 29, 2009 at 7:30 am ET

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?...

Danny Sullivan | Apr 21, 2009 at 4:00 pm ET

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...

Barry Schwartz | Dec 24, 2008 at 9:18 am ET

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:...

Greg Sterling | Jun 10, 2008 at 10:38 am ET

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...

Greg Sterling | Apr 22, 2008 at 10:52 am ET

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...

Vanessa Fox | Dec 17, 2007 at 2:20 pm ET

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...

Vanessa Fox | Sep 19, 2007 at 4:29 pm ET

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...

Vanessa Fox | Sep 12, 2007 at 8:53 am ET

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...

Danny Sullivan | Sep 11, 2007 at 10:38 am ET

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...

Danny Sullivan | Sep 5, 2007 at 9:56 am ET

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....

Greg Sterling | Aug 8, 2007 at 9:29 am ET

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...

Danny Sullivan | Jul 6, 2007 at 5:15 pm ET

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...

Phil Bradley | May 15, 2007 at 5:31 am ET
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