Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: 3-2-1 123people search launches off! via Alt Search Engines by Charles Knight on 10/27/08 Today next generation people search tool, 123people (http://www.123people.com) hits the web with its US public beta launch. 123people, is a high performance real-time people search functionality, that finds and identifies people’s information from publicly available sources across the web.
123people is also socially interactive, applying crowd wisdom to search results. Users can rate and add information to every single search result, giving it more relevance with details that are not yet found on the Internet, taking the quality of people search to the next level. An “Update Newsletter Service” provides users information about new search results on the Internet. 123people differs from existing search sites by; using an innovative search function that finds peoples’ contact details, images, videos, weblinks, biographies, news, blogs, documents and social network profiles from hundreds of international and social media sources organizing the relevant information in a dynamic hub where users can find the most up-to-date information on anyone. “We are out to change the way Web users search and discover people information,” says Russell Perry, CEO of 123people.com. “123people.com brings superior search results because our search is optimized, and gets better every day, because we take strong efforts to include locally relevant sources like whitepages, Zoominfo and news outlets, such as CNN, NYtimes, and WSJ as well as other web 2.0 offerings for the next generation of people search.“ So what makes 123people different? 123people displays real-time results. Users can use 123people to get up-to-date information on people in the news, receiving instant real-time results as it happens, helping you to keep track on the news buzz surrounding your favored presidential candidate, celebrity, CEO or yourself. The site is designed to fundamentally improve the quality of people search on the Web. In addition to aggregating people information from globally accessible databases and social networks on the Web. 123people.com also search country-specific Web sites, providing fast access comprehensive results. The ability to find relevant people information proves a high priority for Web users. However, the overwhelming amount of sites on the Web makes it increasingly difficult to keep up with the people we know or want to know on the Web. People search is one of the fastest growing interests of Web users. According to a recent Technorati study, approximately 30 percent of search queries conducted in traditional search engines like Google are people-related. However, the search results in these major engines are often overwhelmingly buried in pages of unrelated results and can be frustratingly incomprehensive. Niche search sites give users a faster, more effective, and direct way of locating specific information. 123people Features: 123 People aggregates people-related data User can tag search results and give them more relevance Includes popular social media profiles (i.g. Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Xing, Friendster, HiFive, FlickR, Bebo, Bloglines, Blogger, Zoominfo, LastFM,) Instant Messenger profiles and Microblogs, such as, AIM and twitter Tagclouds Biographies Phone numbers and emails News page results from CNN, Nytimes, WSJ and USA today. 123 people is available in English, German Spanish and French. Check it out and decide for yourself. Come back and leave a comment! Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Alt Search Engines using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
