Comments on: Should Google Have a “People Search”?

By: Steve Public

Steve Public — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:19:03 +0000

As a person who’s been in the people search industry for over 2 years, I think that such feature isn’t necessary. Why? Because Google already does a pretty good job at integrating a ‘people search engine’ into their existing web search engine. I believe they’ve already done this job, when you search for a particular person on Google, first you see Facebook profiles and so on and then general information.

However, some day Google might add a people search engine with some ‘extra’ features.

By: Google People

Google People — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:10:47 +0000

Adam is correct, a google people search option that draws from the larger web 2.0 properties would greatly enhance this search.

By: Aaron Stroud

Aaron Stroud — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:49:20 +0000

My guess would be that googling people works well enough for now and that the activity isn’t commonplace enough to devote resources to it.

Aside from people who live and/or work online, googling people isn’t a day to day activity. As more of us work from home or online all day, they’ll get around to it.

@Adam, thanks for the heads up about Pipl.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:05:54 +0000

@Adam – Yes, I was thinking they could get people feeds just like they have sitemap import

@Peter – Interesting stuff

By: Peter Cobcroft

Peter Cobcroft — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:06:32 +0000

The National Library of Australia is looking into this currently – creating “People Australia” which will be an authority database for this kind of purpose. Mind you – it is more useful to librarians as it will be a database of signficant people.

By: Adam Snider

Adam Snider — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:35:03 +0000

Something like a "Google People Search" could be cool. While Google usually gives me a lot of good results when I'm looking for people, I find that it does have a tendency to not show results for social networks, which often have the most information about people. I find Pipl works pretty good for finding the information that Google has a tendency to miss or ignore.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:29:38 +0000

People Google other people all the time, why would this method be any worse?

By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:48:01 +0000

i don’t want people googling me…at least not by that method

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