Comments on: War Of The People Search http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/ Startup and Technology News Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: WhitePages.com To Buy Snapvine for Around $20 Million : New Web 2.0 Magazine http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-2350866 WhitePages.com To Buy Snapvine for Around $20 Million : New Web 2.0 Magazine Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:48:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-2350866 [...] Eventually Algard says they’ll integrate additional information into search results as well, such as social network links. Look out, Wink, Spock, etc. [...] [...] Eventually Algard says they’ll integrate additional information into search results as well, such as social network links. Look out, Wink, Spock, etc. [...]

]]> By: internet legal compliance http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-2344900 internet legal compliance Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:37:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-2344900 <strong>internet legal compliance...</strong> Did you know that there is a 94% chance that your website isn\'t compliant with current laws. Take a minute and fix it. It really does protect you against all kinds of severe penalties if you get tagged. In this modern day of utter stupidity, all it ... internet legal compliance…

Did you know that there is a 94% chance that your website isn\’t compliant with current laws. Take a minute and fix it. It really does protect you against all kinds of severe penalties if you get tagged. In this modern day of utter stupidity, all it …

]]> By: Biographicon Wants To Be Wikipedia For The Non-Notable | DistrictSource.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-2014113 Biographicon Wants To Be Wikipedia For The Non-Notable | DistrictSource.com Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:23:32 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-2014113 [...] “notable” unless you’ve received significant media coverage elsewhere. Other services have filled in the gap for the billion or so people online who can’t get onto Wikipedia - sites like LinkedIn, Wink and [...] [...] “notable” unless you’ve received significant media coverage elsewhere. Other services have filled in the gap for the billion or so people online who can’t get onto Wikipedia - sites like LinkedIn, Wink and [...]

]]> By: Neuer Trend: Personensuche im Web - work.innovation Blog http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1970517 Neuer Trend: Personensuche im Web - work.innovation Blog Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:29:49 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1970517 [...] schon wieder etwas abflaut, und Personen-Suchmaschinen. TechCrunch spricht sogar schon von einem War of the People Search. Für die persönliche Reputation, nicht nur Online, tun sich jedenfalls neue Dimensionen [...] [...] schon wieder etwas abflaut, und Personen-Suchmaschinen. TechCrunch spricht sogar schon von einem War of the People Search. Für die persönliche Reputation, nicht nur Online, tun sich jedenfalls neue Dimensionen [...]

]]> By: Facebook search goes public : Silicon Caribe http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1917709 Facebook search goes public : Silicon Caribe Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:14:07 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1917709 [...] people search scene. We’ve recently covered five new people search engines - Spock, Wink, Zoominfo, WikiYou and PeekYou. All of these services count on the fact that people information is [...] [...] people search scene. We’ve recently covered five new people search engines - Spock, Wink, Zoominfo, WikiYou and PeekYou. All of these services count on the fact that people information is [...]

]]> By: NexGen Technology Blog » Spock Open Public Beta http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1545685 NexGen Technology Blog » Spock Open Public Beta Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:03:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1545685 [...] differs from differs from recently launched WikiYou and other people search engines by using algorithms to find and merge the majority of their content into a unified profile. User [...] [...] differs from differs from recently launched WikiYou and other people search engines by using algorithms to find and merge the majority of their content into a unified profile. User [...]

]]> By: Spock Open Public Beta http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1543560 Spock Open Public Beta Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:35:40 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1543560 [...] differs from differs from recently launched WikiYou and other people search engines by using algorithms to find and merge the majority of their content into a unified profile. User [...] [...] differs from differs from recently launched WikiYou and other people search engines by using algorithms to find and merge the majority of their content into a unified profile. User [...]

]]> By: Christi http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1413301 Christi Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:32:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1413301 Even though there is a certain amount of excitement of finding a person on the social networking sites, there is little information that leads to actually finding a person. There will always be a need for other search types that provice "locating" information, such as peoplesearch.com and other similar sites. However, there is relatively little one can do at this point to keep their personal information out of the public records systems, and even less a person can do to keep their info from being available on the internet. Even though there is a certain amount of excitement of finding a person on the social networking sites, there is little information that leads to actually finding a person. There will always be a need for other search types that provice “locating” information, such as peoplesearch.com and other similar sites. However, there is relatively little one can do at this point to keep their personal information out of the public records systems, and even less a person can do to keep their info from being available on the internet.

]]> By: William Patrick Wend http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1409569 William Patrick Wend Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:09:17 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1409569 <strong>ClaimID...</strong> Recently there has been a lot of buzz on the internet about “search identity,” primarily because of a Wall Street Journal article about it. Having been harassed online in the past few years, the perpetrators even going so far as to create a fake M... ClaimID…

Recently there has been a lot of buzz on the internet about “search identity,” primarily because of a Wall Street Journal article about it. Having been harassed online in the past few years, the perpetrators even going so far as to create a fake M…

]]> By: birdswitharms http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1394052 birdswitharms Thu, 24 May 2007 17:39:36 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1394052 Where do all the paid public records service providers come into play here? It is my opinion that these services remain profitable because the laymen user does not know how to correctly use all of the existing free people search technologies. Furthermore, all of the major players (http://www.peoplefinders.com and http://www.intelius.com) and their affiliates occupy the top paid spots for the major keyword terms. When will Spock, Wink and Zoominfo and move into the paid placement space? It would be nice to finally click on an ad that promised "free people search" and have it be true. Lastly, I am not seeing a big pairing up of the major "traditional players" in the people search space pairing up with the newcomers (with the exception of http://www.reunion.com and Wink). Do you think that this new "war" will see the new absorb the old and allow users to be in control of their contact and public records information? Where do all the paid public records service providers come into play here? It is my opinion that these services remain profitable because the laymen user does not know how to correctly use all of the existing free people search technologies.

Furthermore, all of the major players (http://www.peoplefinders.com and http://www.intelius.com) and their affiliates occupy the top paid spots for the major keyword terms. When will Spock, Wink and Zoominfo and move into the paid placement space? It would be nice to finally click on an ad that promised “free people search” and have it be true.

Lastly, I am not seeing a big pairing up of the major “traditional players” in the people search space pairing up with the newcomers (with the exception of http://www.reunion.com and Wink). Do you think that this new “war” will see the new absorb the old and allow users to be in control of their contact and public records information?

]]> By: Anurag Wakhlu http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1372176 Anurag Wakhlu Fri, 11 May 2007 18:01:50 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1372176 As I was telling one of the Spock guys at this meeting, it would be useful to have some kind of a "social/web rating" for people (similar to a FICO score). So I could, for example, search for Michael Arrington, and get a "producer" score of 95.x (leaving room for growth :) Bill Clinton would have a low "producer" but a high "presence" score. A high "quality" blogger would have a higher score than a not so great one. Al Gore would have a score of... Achieving this would require a non-trivial analysis of a person's online presence - blogs, links, MySpace/Facebook/YouTube/LinkedIn etc profiles and more. Then these 3 companies could become the web equivalent of Experian/Equifax/Transunion. As I was telling one of the Spock guys at this meeting, it would be useful to have some kind of a “social/web rating” for people (similar to a FICO score).

So I could, for example, search for Michael Arrington, and get a “producer” score of 95.x (leaving room for growth :) Bill Clinton would have a low “producer” but a high “presence” score. A high “quality” blogger would have a higher score than a not so great one. Al Gore would have a score of…

Achieving this would require a non-trivial analysis of a person’s online presence - blogs, links, MySpace/Facebook/YouTube/LinkedIn etc profiles and more. Then these 3 companies could become the web equivalent of Experian/Equifax/Transunion.

]]> By: Wink Blog http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1371480 Wink Blog Fri, 11 May 2007 01:14:22 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1371480 <strong>TechCrunch: War of the People Search...</strong> Michael Arrington posted on TechCrunch about the Search SIG Panel he moderated last night at Google: “I moderated a fascinating panel tonight at Google headquarters that included execs from three “people search engines” - the CEO of Wink (Mic... TechCrunch: War of the People Search…

Michael Arrington posted on TechCrunch about the Search SIG Panel he moderated last night at Google:
“I moderated a fascinating panel tonight at Google headquarters that included execs from three “people search engines” - the CEO of Wink (Mic…

]]> By: claimID weblog - Manage your online identity. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1371411 claimID weblog - Manage your online identity. Thu, 10 May 2007 23:45:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1371411 <strong>The Future of People Search...</strong> The Wall Street Journal has written an article entitled You’re a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well. This front-page article has been syndicated to many newspapers around the country, causing substantial buzz. It reflects somewhat of a new re... The Future of People Search…

The Wall Street Journal has written an article entitled You’re a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well. This front-page article has been syndicated to many newspapers around the country, causing substantial buzz. It reflects somewhat of a new re…

]]> By: Trogdor http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1371287 Trogdor Thu, 10 May 2007 20:06:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1371287 Another fun wrinkle for these types of search engines is distingushing between real, live, breathing humans, and fictional ones. This includes characters in movies, books, tv shows, as well as any of a plethora of fake identities used by con artists, spies, smugglers, and like. In a way, by linking types of relationships together and making intelligent-enough algorithms, one might be able to use these kinds of people-search engines to *identify* if a person is a spy, con artist, etc, based on whether or not their identity / network is *like* one. And again, I don't quite see the business model, aside from paid-subscription ... at which point, it seems to be not unlike ussearch.com in a way (with the exception that US Search doesn't spider the 'net, and bases its info on public information held by various levels / kinds of government entities). Another fun wrinkle for these types of search engines is distingushing between real, live, breathing humans, and fictional ones. This includes characters in movies, books, tv shows, as well as any of a plethora of fake identities used by con artists, spies, smugglers, and like.

In a way, by linking types of relationships together and making intelligent-enough algorithms, one might be able to use these kinds of people-search engines to *identify* if a person is a spy, con artist, etc, based on whether or not their identity / network is *like* one.

And again, I don’t quite see the business model, aside from paid-subscription … at which point, it seems to be not unlike ussearch.com in a way (with the exception that US Search doesn’t spider the ‘net, and bases its info on public information held by various levels / kinds of government entities).

]]> By: andre taliercio http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370944 andre taliercio Thu, 10 May 2007 12:53:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370944 Identity control is the key and much more than be found among persons with similar names. It is about showing a clean profile of you. In the course of our live we do many thinks, and many of us get an eclectic profile in the pages search. Stuff we are proud of, others less proud of. This is what Ziki is about: centralize in one place all you information, make it as your resume or platform for self-promotion. Ziki manages your profile on major search engines to make displayed on the top. When people click on it, they see what you want them to see. You are in control.. http://www.ziki.com Identity control is the key and much more than be found among persons with similar names. It is about showing a clean profile of you. In the course of our live we do many thinks, and many of us get an eclectic profile in the pages search. Stuff we are proud of, others less proud of.
This is what Ziki is about: centralize in one place all you information, make it as your resume or platform for self-promotion. Ziki manages your profile on major search engines to make displayed on the top. When people click on it, they see what you want them to see. You are in control..
http://www.ziki.com

]]> By: Zeno Davatz http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370697 Zeno Davatz Thu, 10 May 2007 07:38:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370697 The thing I do not like about the common search engines is, that they do not recognize documents with similar content. It happens often on the Web that a post or document is spread out over more then 50 websites. Now that is great for the author but not for the searcher because it blows up your search result unnecessarily. With InfoCodex this will not happen because the linguistical database recognizes similar documents and puts them into groups. This does not blow up your search result unnecessarily. http://www.ywesee.com/pmwiki.php/Ywesee/InfoCodexProcedure Three things a modern Search engine should do: 1. Automatically classify a document according to its content. 2. Automatically generate an abstract of a document. 3. Generate a Heat-Map of the Contents of a Search Result. http://www.ywesee.com/uploads/Main/InfoCodex_22.2.2007.pdf The thing I do not like about the common search engines is, that they do not recognize documents with similar content. It happens often on the Web that a post or document is spread out over more then 50 websites. Now that is great for the author but not for the searcher because it blows up your search result unnecessarily. With InfoCodex this will not happen because the linguistical database recognizes similar documents and puts them into groups. This does not blow up your search result unnecessarily.

http://www.ywesee.com/pmwiki.p.....xProcedure

Three things a modern Search engine should do:

1. Automatically classify a document according to its content.
2. Automatically generate an abstract of a document.
3. Generate a Heat-Map of the Contents of a Search Result.

http://www.ywesee.com/uploads/.....2.2007.pdf

]]> By: Nathan Friedly http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370466 Nathan Friedly Thu, 10 May 2007 02:20:47 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370466 Jomathan Mendez: "Not to mention, a large percentage of name searches are vanity searches." Hah, that's so true. I have a friend that I've written about in the past. About a year ago I made a blog post mentioning some of the search terms that have brought people to my site, and his name was one of them. Just last week he left a comment on that post along the lines of "I'm so cool people search for my name" He was totally vanity searching to find that post :P Jomathan Mendez: “Not to mention, a large percentage of name searches are vanity searches.”

Hah, that’s so true. I have a friend that I’ve written about in the past. About a year ago I made a blog post mentioning some of the search terms that have brought people to my site, and his name was one of them. Just last week he left a comment on that post along the lines of “I’m so cool people search for my name”

He was totally vanity searching to find that post :P

]]> By: David Mackey http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370434 David Mackey Thu, 10 May 2007 01:52:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370434 I was very disappointed when Wink decided to switch from social search to people search. I was very disappointed when Wink decided to switch from social search to people search.

]]> By: atomic1fire http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370375 atomic1fire Thu, 10 May 2007 00:34:30 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370375 wow zoominfo made 12 bucks (or is that 12 million Mr Arrington) And yet they are profitable wow zoominfo made 12 bucks (or is that 12 million Mr Arrington)
And yet they are profitable

]]> By: Tom http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370371 Tom Thu, 10 May 2007 00:31:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370371 How about this one? TallStreet.com How about this one?

TallStreet.com

]]> By: just.a.guy http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370255 just.a.guy Wed, 09 May 2007 22:11:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370255 No mention of Jigsaw? I'm surprised you didn't mention them again, seeing as how you'd made it a point to post about how "Jigsaw is evil" No mention of Jigsaw? I’m surprised you didn’t mention them again, seeing as how you’d made it a point to post about how “Jigsaw is evil”

]]> By: Michael Tanne http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370167 Michael Tanne Wed, 09 May 2007 19:51:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370167 Michael, great job moderating - you and the audience both raised lots of good, challenging questions about people search. Thanks so much to the organizers at SDForum for putting on these events - and Google for hosting. Michael, great job moderating - you and the audience both raised lots of good, challenging questions about people search. Thanks so much to the organizers at SDForum for putting on these events - and Google for hosting.

]]> By: Alix Holder http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370165 Alix Holder Wed, 09 May 2007 19:50:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370165 I am one of the Co-Founders at ProfileLinker and I wanted to speak to our role in the “sandbox”. At ProfileLinker we provide users with a centralized profile where their different online identities can be managed. We fit into the people search “sandbox” because of our ability to allow users to discover members based on social network affiliations as well as liked interests. In comparison with other companies in the people search space, we are not direct competitors because our company focuses on easing the interactions between our users and their social networks as well as our users and their different networks of people. This is a contrast to the aforementioned companies that primarily focus on indexing people and information from across the web, as Google does. I am one of the Co-Founders at ProfileLinker and I wanted to speak to our role in the “sandbox”. At ProfileLinker we provide users with a centralized profile where their different online identities can be managed. We fit into the people search “sandbox” because of our ability to allow users to discover members based on social network affiliations as well as liked interests. In comparison with other companies in the people search space, we are not direct competitors because our company focuses on easing the interactions between our users and their social networks as well as our users and their different networks of people. This is a contrast to the aforementioned companies that primarily focus on indexing people and information from across the web, as Google does.

]]> By: Lee http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370080 Lee Wed, 09 May 2007 17:24:20 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370080 "John Smith" returns 1.85MM results. Otherwise you're searching for the words John and Smith not "John Smith" the person. “John Smith” returns 1.85MM results. Otherwise you’re searching for the words John and Smith not “John Smith” the person.

]]> By: Arnold Leung http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370064 Arnold Leung Wed, 09 May 2007 16:49:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/09/war-of-the-people-search/#comment-1370064 There is NO WAY that they can be profitable with 12 dollars in revenue. Even getting a basic web host cost about 20 bucks per year. Is this supposed to be 12 million? There is NO WAY that they can be profitable with 12 dollars in revenue. Even getting a basic web host cost about 20 bucks per year. Is this supposed to be 12 million?

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