Comments on: Wink Now Searches MySpace, LinkedIn and Bebo

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By: Wink’s People Search Index Grows To 500 Million Profiles

Wink’s People Search Index Grows To 500 Million Profiles — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:34:42 +0000

[...] search engine that asked the crowd to help tag and rank search results. The site transitioned to a search engine for people in fall 2006 and went on to partially liquidate, explaining that the company’s new direction [...]

By: » Wink People Search Reaches 500 Million People Worldwide » Social Networking Blog - SociableBlog.com

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:32:16 +0000

[...] human ratings. Wink’s indexing is not simply pulling from MySpace’s search features, they’ve actually indexed more than 100 million profiles. Wink’s results aren’t limited to social networks; it found the personal web pages of [...]

By: CrunchNotes » People Search Event Tonight At Google HQ

CrunchNotes » People Search Event Tonight At Google HQ — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:03:44 +0000

[...] Michael Tanne – CEO Wink [...]

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By: UpSocial - Social Nextworking » Blog Archive » Scoop the latest info on your social network buddy

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:57:46 +0000

[...] Today, the reputation network Rapleaf is releasing a new service called Upscoop, which joins a number of startups (see ProfileLinker and Wink, for example) trying to add a meta layer above social networks. There are a lot of these networks, and a lot of people belong to more than one. Keeping track of your own networks, and those of your friends, is complicated. [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Exploiter vos listes de contacts avec UpScoop

TechCrunch en français » Exploiter vos listes de contacts avec UpScoop — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:10:24 +0000

[...] Rapleaf, l’outil de gestion de votre réputation, vient de lancer un nouveau service du nom de Upscoop qui rejoint un certain nombre de startups (comme ProfileLinker et Wink par exemple) en essayant d’ajouter une nouvelle couche de donnée aux réseaux sociaux existants. Il y a en effet beaucoup de réseaux et beaucoup sont inscrits à plus d’un service. Il n’est pas simple de suivre votre propre réseau. [...]

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By: NetWizard's Blog

NetWizard's Blog — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:24:56 +0000

Social People Search on the Cheap…

After reading this gushing Techcrunch post on how good Wink’s new people search feature is (it searchs all of three networks!), I decided to see if I can do the same via Google’s new Custom Search Engine service. The result……

By: YS

YS — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:47:24 +0000

Why limit yourself to only 3 networks? Search 37 networks with my new project (built with Google Co-Op:

http://www.socialpeople.net

Here is a search for Mike Arrington of TechCrunch.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:29:34 +0000

What about the legal aspects involved in all of this. Since Myspace and the other networks do not currently provide an API, I am assuming that Wink is simply spidering these guys. If so, how long until they get blocked or totally shut down?

By: Arpan

Arpan — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:02:26 +0000

If you are looking for an aggregated people search, I would have a look at Boston based Ziggs (www.ziggs.com). The service was launched in October 2004. According to their website -

“Ziggs offers a search platform for professionals for finding people in business online. By providing an Index dedicated to up-to-date business people profiles, Ziggs lets you search across more than 3 million public profiles from over 95,000 companies, and find the most accurate information on the people you seek. ”

I am in no way affiliated with Ziggs and simply wanted to let those reading this post know that the service exists.

By: Pro Social Bookmarking

Pro Social Bookmarking — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:16:05 +0000

People Search the social networking sites…

You can now search for user profiles across three of the major social networking sites – MySpace, Bebo and LinkedIn.

The service is from a social search site called Wink and although the service is currently in beta it’s an original indexing of …

By: Oscar

Oscar — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:05:57 +0000

A couple of things. I’ve been following Wink and here’s my perspective.

1. Wink is a social search engine. This means that it uses actual people to derive and influence relevancy. So the results are only as good as you let them be. If you’re searching for “mortgage” and you see “spam” then be a good boy and block it. If you see a good result, then you either tag it, wink it, or give it a thumbs up. It’s pretty simple. It’s very much like digg in this respect.

2. Google Co-op is nothing new. Rollyo, using Yahoo!’s API, has been around a long time. Then there’s Eurekster. The fact that google took so long to provide this kind of thing speaks volumes about their tendency to follow and not lead. Wake up people! Google isn’t freaking God. Stop drinking the Kool-Aid.

Bottom line, this is a good idea and apparently some of you can’t let it be just that. Use it. Be constructive, encourage and help Wink and others trying to do something different. That’s what Web 2.0 used to be about. That’s what it should be about.

By: Hashim

Hashim — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 05:46:40 +0000

Joel: “Keyword searching isn’t the way to go I think. There’s still a lot of noise in the results.”

I agree! What I would like is the ability for the search engine to act as a database search, so I can filter by name, interests, photos or whatever else.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:14:47 +0000

Sounds like a good idea from Wink, the social search engine I use quite regularly (I try to use it whenever possible instead of Google). Sadly, I find that their results thus far aren’t that great (though adding google’s results was a great idea). Hopefully someday the quality will go up, but that might require hiring editors, etc.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Wink：MySpace、LinkedInそれにBeboのプロフィールが検索可能に

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Wink：MySpace、LinkedInそれにBeboのプロフィールが検索可能に — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:09:36 +0000

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By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:51:51 +0000

i finally read your whole article and i think this is a smart idea.

By: Jason Coleman

Jason Coleman — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:45:03 +0000

I wonder if Wink has a deal with MySpace since they are scraping some content. Are they going to run into the same problems singlestat.us and other MySpace-related sites have had?

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:05:30 +0000

I think Hasim’s coop search shows the flaw with Wink’s people search (which by the way isn’t side by side as useful as Wink. Wink at least let’s you limit by criteria). Keyword searching isn’t the way to go I think. There’s still a lot of noise in the results. I typed in “us soccer”, trying to find other US fans. I didn’t find any definitive results, at least I didn’t find what I was looking for. I found a lot of corporate myspace profiles and team pages (not people per se) and a few profiles with a passing mention of us soccer.

I know Wink has people following this thread…do any of you actually use this product? How? Can you give some concrete examples? Are you guys on here finding dates or tennis partners or what? I’m not sure how I’d use it, but I’d love to hear how you all do.

By: Mikael

Mikael — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:42:50 +0000

Wink is just so easy to spam because they let people rate. For example, a search for “mortgage” results in just spam. When a search engine lets in results from obscure sites, and lets people rank, this is very hard to stop. For me, wink has no value because of this. I like sites such as http://www.tagjag.com and http://www.resultr.com better, although tagjag has more advertisments than results. Resultr.com has bad design, but is very handy since it lets me combine the search engines I trust.

By: jim barnes

jim barnes — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:30:16 +0000

Dave, thanks for the tip! I have been playing with it and as someone who networks constantly, zoominfo is an incredible resource. Also, found this site for businesses that is linked from their homepage http://www.thezoomlist.com, but can’t find anything about it out there. Looks like they’re quietly moving outside of people.

By: dumbfounder

dumbfounder — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:42:08 +0000

unfortunately you can’t search for people by name on MySpace because that is data only known to them.