Too many damn web profiles!!!
August 9, 2006
A savvy web user might have a profile for:
EBay
MySpace
Facebook
Yahoo! 360
Blog
Webshots
Flickr
YouTube
Digg
The above comprises a list of great websites, but I would make the argument that the people search component of those sites is weak, very weak. None of those sites claim to be people search sites and they do not need to be, but a good people search would certainly add a nice new set of capabilities.
PeopleTM.com hopes to be the glue for the social web by providing a killer search engine for people.
Databases also play a great role in people search, pure keyword searches for people is limited. You can’t type into a box, “people who went to the University of Florida who now live in New York” and expect it to make sense of your query, only a database that can intercept many properties and handle the complex relationships of peoples lives can return anything relevant.
