Largest Free People Search Now Includes Facebook
Wink People Search provides free people search across over 300 Million profiles, and we now search across Facebook profiles as well! You can search for people by name, location, work, school or interests. Wink people search includes social networks, blogs and other sites across the Web.
Take Charge of your Online presence
You can claim your profile at Wink and take charge of what’s seen when people search for you. You can add your own profiles from across the Web, update your bio, list your school and work and describe your interests. Don’t rely on what the search engines say about you - take charge. Over a hundred thousand people have already claimed their profiles.
Follow Your Friends’ Feeds
By adding friends at Wink you can follow their feeds from Twitter, Flickr, personal blog, etc. You can see what your friends are up to and keep up on their discoveries and posts from one place at Wink. When you join Wink, just upload your address book to see which of your friends are already here and include their feeds to get a constant update.
Wink is constantly adding more sources, so check back often. And tell us what your think. We especially love to hear about it when people find long-lost friends or family members using Wink. It does happen quite often.
As always, we hope you find whomever you are looking for.
Cheers,
The Wink Team
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Largest Free People Search Engine
Wink People Search now provides free people search across over 270 Million profiles. Search for people by name, city, state, country, work, school or interests. Wink people search includes social networks, blogs and other sites across the Web. This is not the white pages. These are people’s online profiles and other postings.
Manage Your Online Profile
You can claim your profile at Wink and take control of your own presence online. You can add your own profiles from across the Web, update your bio, list your school and work and describe your interests. Don’t rely on what the search engines say about you - take control. Nearly a hundred thousand people have already claimed their profiles. You can see some of them at the Wink Directory.
View Your Friends’ Feeds
By adding friends and including their feeds from Twitter, Flickr, their blog, etc. you can see what your friends are up to all from one place at Wink. When you join Wink, just upload your address book to see which of your friends are already here and include their feeds to get a constant update.
Here’s what Gina Trapani at LifeHacker said recently in her post “How To Track Anyone Down Online“:
So the person you’re looking for likely has a Friendster, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, or Xanga account? Instead of searching each service individually, enter their full name or screen name, plus other identifying information like interests and location at Wink to do a one-hit comprehensive search of all those services at once.
Wink is constantly adding more sources. We’ve got some big sources with millions of online profiles coming soon, so check back often. And tell us what your think. We especially love to hear about it when people find long-lost friends or family members using Wink. It does happen quite often.
As always, we hope you find whomever you are looking for
Cheers,
The Wink Team
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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Wink to Support Google’s OpenSocial Initiative
Wink’s People Search Engine Includes 250 Million Social Network Profiles From OpenSocial Supporters, Bebo, Hi5, MySpace and Friendster
Wink.com, the Web’s largest people search engine, today announced its intentions to support OpenSocial – the API developed by Google to promote interoperability of applications and data across all online social networks. Wink will release a major update of its people search engine in one week, improving the profile-building and control features that span social networks like Hi5, MySpace and Friendster.
“At Wink we are constantly seeking ways to make it easier and more intuitive to find and connect with friends, classmates, and business contacts wherever they are online” said Michael Tanne, CEO of Wink. “Since we already support most of the leading social networks we are encouraged by the efforts of all the companies signed on to support OpenSocial and are eager to use the API to provide more services to people at any social network.”
By supporting the OpenSocial API, Wink will enable people to access their profiles and social graphs, as well as keep in touch with friends on different social networks more readily.
Since its launch at Web 2.0 Summit, November 9, 2006 as the first people search engine for social profiles and online identity, Wink has maintained its leadership with over 250 million people listed in its search engine. Many of the popular social networks that have joined the OpenSocial effort are already searchable via Wink, including MySpace, Hi5, LinkedIn, Bebo and Friendster.
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