123people has been around for some time now, and they've recently expanded their coverage to a number of other countries, including the UK. I've played around with it for a while and it's - ok. I've still to find a people search engine that I'm really impressed with, and while this has some nice features I'm still not sure I'd want to try and rely on it.
It draws content from a variety of public resources, so you can expect to get photographs from 7 different resources such as Flickr, myspace and so on. There are email addresses and to be fair when I did the usual ego search it found both photographs and email address quickly and accurately. It also looks for phone numbers, but didn't find any at all, which is slightly odd, unless it's just using something like the BT directory, but even then it should have found something. It culls data from Amazon, microblogs, YouTube, UK newspapers, weblinks, mainly using Live, Blogs, Wikipedia entries and 'documents'. Finally it drags in data from social networks.
I tried searching for various people, both friends, well known names and the results were not brilliant. I am surprised that they didn't use a resource such as Friends Re-united for example, and there wasn't any kind of attempt to suggest alternatives, such as Philip instead of Phil. If anyone looked for Philip Bradley using 123people I wouldn't be turned up in any category.
In summary it's there, it draws content from various places with different levels of success, but you'll still need to do a lot more searching - this is not a one stop shop by any means.
It draws content from a variety of public resources, so you can expect to get photographs from 7 different resources such as Flickr, myspace and so on. There are email addresses and to be fair when I did the usual ego search it found both photographs and email address quickly and accurately. It also looks for phone numbers, but didn't find any at all, which is slightly odd, unless it's just using something like the BT directory, but even then it should have found something. It culls data from Amazon, microblogs, YouTube, UK newspapers, weblinks, mainly using Live, Blogs, Wikipedia entries and 'documents'. Finally it drags in data from social networks.
I tried searching for various people, both friends, well known names and the results were not brilliant. I am surprised that they didn't use a resource such as Friends Re-united for example, and there wasn't any kind of attempt to suggest alternatives, such as Philip instead of Phil. If anyone looked for Philip Bradley using 123people I wouldn't be turned up in any category.
In summary it's there, it draws content from various places with different levels of success, but you'll still need to do a lot more searching - this is not a one stop shop by any means.
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