PeekYou
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 The Smartest Way to Find People Online | |
| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
Type of site | Search engine |
| Available in | English |
| Founded | April 2006 |
| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
| Key people | Michael Hussey, Founder Thomas Lynch, President Peter Bordes, Director |
| URL | www |
| Registration | optional |
| Launched | July 2006 |
| Current status | Active |
PeekYou is a people search engine that indexes people and their links on the web. Founded in April 2006 by Michael Hussey, PeekYou claims that they have indexed over 250 million people, mostly in the United States and Canada.[1][2] The search results consist of publicly available URLs, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Google+, blogs, homepages, business pages and news sources.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- "PeekYou - Spock has Competition" at Techcrunch
- "PeekYou Makes People Search Worthwhile with Google Integration" at Mashable
- "PeekYou’s Hussey Offers Glimpse Into Data Practices" at Adotas
- "'Scrapers' Dig Deep for Data on Web" at Wall Street Journal
References
[edit]- ^ Keen, Andrew (2012-05-22). Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-62498-9.
- ^ Ilten, Carla; Kroener, Inga; Neyland, Daniel; Postigo, Hector (2012-08-13). Managing Privacy through Accountability. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-03222-5.
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