Wink - Search, Find, and Connect

Claiming to be the largest online people search with more than 200 million people profiles from across the Web, including social networks and other online communities, I thought I would test out their claim. Needless to say, they scored high on the test.

Like I sometimes do on Google, I started simple, and I searched my name. The page was instantly filled with pictures of myself, and other various web pages, blogs, and social networks I have been in or wrote for. I searched my boss, I searched my friends, and I searched my neighbors. Trying to see whom it would not find…It found everyone. You would be thunderstruck at the people you will find. Those that I thought had nothing to do with the internet were on there.

Wink.com searches the public profiles on MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, LinkedIn, Live Spaces, and other sources. They are adding more and more networks all the time and are developing new technology to find even more people in a variety of cool ways. Wink People Search lets you find people by name, location, school, work, and interest anywhere on the web.

If you ask me, I find it kind of creepy. Of course I realized, being an active internet user, I will have things littered all over the internet about me, but it just makes me feel strange to think that companies out there specialize in bringing people altogether in services like this one, and PeopleFinder, and the others that are out there. I digress.

If you want, you can ask to be found:

“You can also use Wink to enable you to be found on the Wink search engine and other traditional search engines. By creating a profile on Wink, you can manage your web presence. Wink allows you to claim and add various places where you are online, and provides you an interface to manage all of them in one place. This gives you the power to determine what people know about you and where you are on the web.”

So there you have it folks - Wink.com, the largest online people search that is improving constantly. I must say, it has taken a bit of time out of my day doing all the searches. Not only is it fun searching for people you know, but it is helpful and free.