Posts Tagged with ‘people-search’

This is an article that I wrote for my regular column in Competitive Intelligence Magazine, published by the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP.org). It's been reformatted here for online consumption. Oh, and it was written in draft form a little while back, so if you know of any great new sites to add to the list, please throw 'em into the comments!
“I’m so happy ‘cause today I found my friends. They’re in my head.” – Nirvana
At the cold [...]

The latest experiment from the Squidoo team is a people search engine with a different focus than other offerings such as Spock and Wink.
SquidWho seems to be more targeted towards building fan pages about various people (celebrities, sports stars, etc.), and it allows anyone to build and claim a page about anyone else.
Given the flaws that Squidoo has run into, including countless "lenses" filled with nothing but spam and links, does SquidWho stand a chance in providing [...]

Spock, the innnovative people search engine, is back in the limelight today, following its official launch and release of the service to a public audience. Up until now, the service was available by an invitation only. Spock is building the largest and most comprehensive people search engine, with approximately 100 million individuals already indexed.
I have been testing out the service since June and it looks very promising. Searching for people has been a dilemma that several other companies on the [...]

Spock has been a much anticipated startup with a vision for a much deeper people search capability. This private beta was announced at the Web 2.0 Expo back in April and the stated mission has been to organize information around people and to create a search result for everyone on the planet. What Spock is trying to develop is the most accurate and relevant search application focused on people.
The company was founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh. [...]