Wink People Search Selected by PC Magazine in Top 100
As the need to find people becomes more common, people are associating the name Wink with People Search. PC Magazine just listed Wink as one of its Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites. This is a great list of sites that are new - some already well known to people who spend a lot of time online, some just being discovered. Here’s what PC Magazine editor Kyle Monson had to say:
Our list of the new and/or undiscovered Web sites that have grabbed our attention this year. You’ll see a large collection of Web applications and tech sites, excellent blogs, offbeat social networks, and, as always, a handful of addictive Flash games for those slow days at work.
Some of these sites are completely under the radar and get very little traffic. Others are hugely popular within a specific demographic. But all of them deserve to be in your bookmarks.
Thanks PC Magazine!
If you haven’t claimed your Wink profile yet, it’s an easy way to manage how you want to be seen online. Just click here.
Cheers,
Michael
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People Search News
People Search has been in the news lately. Wink People Search is one of the first services that let you find people across social networks and other places on the Web. There are now several people search services available.
A recent story in the BBC covered the space well:
Web Search Engines Get Personal
With Wink, you can claim your own profile on the Web so that you can manage how others see you online. You can decide which of your places and links to include: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, linkedIn, Friendster, Hi5, Xanga, Twitter, your blog, etc.
Wink has 215,000,000 people profiles and growing. So we should be able to find most people. And if we can’t find them now, we will be able to soon.
If you have found someone online using Wink, please share your story at feedback@wink.com
Cheers,
Michael
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Wink People Search Reaches 200 Million People
Wink Maintains Lead as First and Largest People Search Engine Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) August 8, 2007 — Wink Technologies, Inc., today announced that Wink People Search has reached the milestone of providing search across the full text of 200 million people profiles from the World Wide Web. Wink People Search allows people to find friends or business contacts based on name, location, interests, tags, school, work, and other profile information. Finding and connecting with people online is becoming more important as social networking, blogging and other forms of online community continue to grow.
Wink People Search has doubled the number of people it searches since it launched in November of 2006. To find people online, Wink has cooperated with many of the world’s largest social networks, including including MySpace, LinkedIn, Friendster, Bebo, Live Spaces, Yahoo!360, Xanga, Twitter and more. To satisfy followers of celebrity news and the “internet famous,” Wink has included in the results are Web sources such as Wikipedia and IMDB. Wink continues to add sources at an increasing rate, planning eventually to include all of the billions of places people show up on the Web.
 The goal of Wink is to help people connect online and learn about people they meet, work with or are just find interesting  |
“The goal of Wink is to help people connect online and learn about people they meet, work with or are just find interesting,” said Michael Tanne, CEO of Wink. “We also make sure that people who are found in our search engine have control over their profile and the information that is included in it.”
Wink users can sign up and claim their own profiles in order to manage their online presence, and have control over what is displayed about them on the Web.
In addition to being the largest people search engine, Wink is also the most flexible. Wink’s experienced team of search engineers from Yahoo!, Inktomi, Excite, and Google have developed proprietary algorithms and indexing techniques which capture the full text and structure of profiles to make them quickly searchable. Whether you want to locate an old friend, find fans of your hometown football team while living in a new city, or seek out people who share your hobbies and interests, Wink searches hundreds of millions people profiles from across the Internet to help you learn about and connect with other people.
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Wink People Search: 200 million profiles
Wink People Search now searches over two hundred million people profiles! That’s twice as many as we launched with several months ago. Everyone can now search people across numerous social networks including MySpace, LinkedIn, Friendster, Bebo, Live Spaces, Yahoo!360, Xanga, Twitter and more. Also included in the results are Web sources such as Wikipedia and IMDB with more coming all the time.
This is a good time to reiterate Wink’s goals. Wink aims to:
- Be the fastest way to find and connect with people online.
- Provide the largest online people search with hundreds of millions of profiles across social networks, online communities and the Web.
- Enable people to search for celebs, old friends, new friends, business contacts and others by name, location, interests, school, work, groups and more.
- Let people manage their online presence by claiming online places, and keep track of people they know by combining their feeds from various sites.
Thank you to everyone who is using Wink to find people, and claiming and updating your profiles to manage your online presence! About 150,000 people used Wink last month.
Here’s a note we received recently from a user:
Subject: Lost Friend
I’ve been looking for a lost friend since 2002 with no luck until today. I’ve tried all pay sites but none of them gave me a correct address or tel number. Thank you so much
It’s so great to get these! We plan to keep making Wink better and better, and to receive many more stories like this.
Cheers,
Michael Tanne, CEO
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