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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Pipl - People Search

I accidentally found a friend on this site while Searching Google for my own music. He was the guitar player on my first recording. So then I searched for my name, just my name with no location info and I came up first in the list! Looks like a pretty good People Search Site...

The most comprehensive people search on the web

Name Email Username Phone

Business


First Name		Last Name		City		State		Country

Clear

What's so different about pipl?

Welcome to the Deep Web

There are various reasons why you might need to search for people. You may need to find a lost relative, an old flame, a classmate or a business contact. Using a search engine such as Google or Yahoo to search for people might work in some cases, but in most cases, it won't.

How come the best search engines fail so miserably when it comes to people search? The answer lies in a little known but very important part of the web called "the deep web".

Also known as "invisible web", the term "deep web" refers to a vast repository of underlying content, such as documents in online databases that general-purpose web crawlers cannot reach. The deep web content is estimated at 500 times that of the surface web, yet has remained mostly untapped due to the limitations of traditional search engines.

Since most personal profiles, public records and other people-related documents are stored in databases and not on static web pages, most of the higher-quality information about people is simply "invisible" to a regular search engine.

Examples of sites with deep web content.
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Pipl's query-engine helps you find deep web pages that cannot be found on regular search engines.

Unlike a typical search-engine, Pipl is designed to retrieve information from the deep web. Our robots are set to interact with searchable databases and extract facts, contact details and other relevant information from personal profiles, member directories, scientific publications, court records and numerous other deep-web sources.

Pipl is not just about finding more results; we are using advanced language-analysis and ranking algorithms to bring you the most relevant bits of information about a person in a single, easy-to-read results page.

Not convinced yet? try searching for people and you'll see the difference.