Contrary to the name, Pipl is not a place to search for people, it's all about finding facts about a person on the internet. And Pipl is amazingly accurate.
Type in the person's name (or even your name) and Pipl.com will extract every bit of information about that person from the web in seconds. In most cases, you will also get the contact details (postal address or even email address) of the person.
Here's the short bio of Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) according to Pipl:
Other than one line bios and contact details, Pipl also shows related profile summaries (from Flickr, Amazon, Yahoo! People, etc), research publications, web search results and recent news stories related to that person.
Do not confuse Pipl with Googlism - Pipl is all about relevant and meaningful information while Googlism is more for fun and satire.
Pipl.com - People Search that really works. [egosurfing]
Reader Comments
I am thinking about the privacy implications!! Pipl search even coughed up my amazon profiles :O
ZabaSearch http://www.zabbasearch.com/) is another place. You can track people who live ( or have lived) in the US,by name, by phone #, street address and even by SSN.
Can this get any scarier?
Written on 14/4/07 1:39 AM
scary!
btw, are you based out of delhi? i will be visiting delhi in the coming days... we are looking to get plugged into various international webmaster communities, and thought it would be interesting to chat if you have some time.
please let me know.
Written on 14/4/07 8:32 AM
As always, it is only for those who have a living out of internet.. For instance, I could not figure out many of my 'software engineer' friends who do not browse much apart from say an orkut or yahoo...
So, as for Indians, i guess it is sometime before things start getting really scarier..
Written on 14/4/07 2:42 PM
your view that pipl.com is amazingly accurate,is presumptuous.its in beta currently and is only showing those people who have a "very active" life on the net.i tried to find my many friends who surf a lot and have eponymous gmail and yahoo ids,but pipl.com did not return any results.
Written on 14/4/07 8:43 PM
Amit
Thanks for dropping by at my blog. Wonder what made you visit mine in the first instance! Had a look at Pipl. Could not see anything new on my profile, but it was neatly arranged. Manoj
Written on 15/4/07 4:09 AM
yes as abhijeet said it only shows active guys in internet.... the most exposed personalities like you amit..and famous too...
Written on 15/4/07 4:41 PM
is pipl better than http://www.zoominfo.com/people/...i mostly fish for people in business, IT whom i would have to interact on professional grounds...
do visit my blog, just started writing,,,its so cool in here, bcos of this arctic weather, my writng style is still trishanku style and jittery.
http://routinespices.blogspot.com/
Written on 15/4/07 6:26 PM
Dear Amit,
Good information. I have tried it and found to be accurate.
Thanks,
Tushar Lal
http://itjobsdelhi.blogspot.com
Written on 16/4/07 2:42 PM
You may also want to check out http://www.zoominfo.com which too helps you find people. But there is more to zoominfo. You can search for companies and jobs too and the advanced search option helps you narrow down the results.
Written on 16/4/07 10:23 PM