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 through the deep/invisible/hidden web to return content that other search engines are going to miss. The interface is simple - type in first name, last name ...

May. 15, 2007 at 5:31am Eastern by Phil Bradley

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 is shiny Web 2.0. Spock is the latest of these services to leverage social networks, intelligent web crawling, and community involvement. Spock launched in ...

Sep. 19, 2007 at 4:29pm Eastern by Vanessa Fox

Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review

Each month, I compile Search Month -- a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more work than I imagined, but I hope you ...
Related Searches: Chart Search Engine | Seo Tips | Search Engine Statistics | Top Search

Jan. 1, 2008 at 2:29pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Search Engine Land: Top Stories & Stats, Jan. 10, 2007

Back again with a daily stats and traffic review for Search Engine Land. When I did the first one yesterday, I warned this wouldn't be a daily activity. But we had another record traffic day, including making the Delicious home page. That's going to make for some nice comparison to Digg traffic for ...
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Jan. 11, 2007 at 7:33am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Search 4.0: Putting Humans Back In Search

Previously I've covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into "regular" web listings. Today, the step beyond that: Search 4.0, how personal, social and human-edited data can be used to refine search results. The Search ...
Related Searches: Social Search | Search 4.0 | Wikia

May. 28, 2008 at 1:18pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

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 information. Now how about finding one of the six billion people on the planet. Where’s the Google of people search? As it turns out, an entire industry of people ...

Sep. 12, 2007 at 8:53am Eastern by Vanessa Fox

Search Month: May 2007 Search News, In Review

Search Month is a monthly newsletter that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past month. It's also available by feed here. Below, news about Search Engine Land itself, then our 10 most popular stories from May 2007, then a major story for various search topics along with other stories ...
Related Searches: Search Engine Share | Search Engine Usage | Baidu | Blinkx

Jun. 11, 2007 at 3:49pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

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. It's running very slowly this morning and so it has been challenging to use. However Spock joins a growing list of "vertical" engines focused on the ...

Aug. 8, 2007 at 9:29am Eastern by Greg Sterling

Microsoft On Poprank And Indexing Objects For Vertical & Web Search

... , to that of indexing objects found upon pages. OK, so that does that mean? It's easiest to show you first, rather than tell you. Microsoft Product Search Take a look at Microsoft's Products Search (http://products.live.com/). Brian Smith went into a lot of detail on the Microsoft's product search last ...

Mar. 29, 2007 at 2:06am Eastern by Bill Slawski

Reuters Introduces Video People Search

Google Operating System reports on a new video search engine from Reuters that uses face recognition technology developed by Viewdle to find people in videos. Riya, which became, Like, uses similar "visual search" technology applied to product search. The Reuters engine only yields Reuters ...

Sep. 19, 2007 at 10:01am Eastern by Greg Sterling