Major Update to Wink People Search

Today we released a major update to Wink People Search. Wink now gives people control over their search profile allowing them to fill in or correct information, and decide which links to include. We also enable people to contact friends they find online, and also choose how they prefer to be contacted by friends who find them. Also, Wink’s friend feeds let you follow your friends’ postings at multiple places all from one feed.

Control Over Search Profiles
Many people search engines list only information that is posted on the Web regardless of accuracy, and some give authority to community tags or editors. Wink allows you to claim and control your search profile on the Wink People Search Engine and gives the owner of each profile authority to edit, correct or remove any content – photos, tags, descriptions, links or feeds – in their profile. This helps you prevent false or rude information from persisting, and lets you present yourself as you’d like to be seen.

Rich Search Profiles
Wink has a new look! Wink is still the fastest and easiest way to find and connect with people online. You’ll notice that the Wink profiles are much richer, including interests, work, school and other info. You have a feed of your friends’ posts anywhere online; and there is better navigation and inline editing.

You can also add multiple pictures to your profile. You can even use our simple cropping feature to get your pictures just right before you add them to your profile page.

Contact Me
At Wink we are constantly seeking ways to make it easier and more intuitive to find and connect with old friends, classmates, colleagues and business contacts wherever they are online.

We’ve added a way for you to choose how you would like to be contacted by someone who is looking for you. You can choose from IM, Skype, email, or leaving a message at Wink. You can contact others using their preferred method. If they haven’t claimed their profile yet, you can still leave a message. They’ll see there’s a message waiting when they join Wink. So look for the Contact Me information on all the profiles on Wink - this makes it easy for you to contact people you find on Wink.

Friend Feeds
You can assemble a feed of your friends’ postings to any RSS-enabled site such as blogs, Flickr, Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce, wherever they are across the Web. You choose to follow people by adding them as favorites or friends and then you can view all their postings in one feed. It’s a great way to keep up.

The Largest People Search Engine with the Most Sources
Wink People Search has nearly tripled the number of people it searches since it launched in November of 2006 to over 250 million profiles. To find people online, Wink has worked with many of the leading social networks and online communities, including MySpace, Hi5, LinkedIn, Friendster, Bebo, Live Spaces, Xanga, Twitter and more. Wink is also announcing today that it has formed a partnership with ZoomInfo to include the 38 million ZoomInfo profiles assembled from information from across the Internet in the Wink search results.

So we invite you to check out Wink’s new features, search for your friends, and invite them to join you here on Wink.
Cheers,
The Wink Team

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8 November 2007 | Wink | Comments