People Search with Pipl

Pipl is a people search engine that is supposed to search the deep web.

A search for me gives the following results:

• Quick facts (5) - a list of sentences, such as ‘Arnaud Leene hasn’t yet added photos to his profile;
• Personal profiles (7) - from MySpace, Twitter, Flickr (twice), ICQ, Jaiku and Amazon.com (not very useful, they should look at Amazon.fr);
• Professional profiles (2) - from LinkedIn and ZoomInfo;
• Photos (17) - Flickr only. The images of me on the sidebar are very good;
• Publications (1) - could be better;
• Email address (3) - very good;
• Web pages (8 and more) - all correct;
• Blog Posts (8) - all correct;
• Documents (8) - all correct;

So all in all this service gives very good results. It is a bit geared towards the US. More social networks could be added.

Unfortunately if you search for someone who does not have a unique name, you are in trouble. There is no way to split the results into multiple persons.

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