People Search – Search SIG – Tuesday, May 8th
Update!
This should be a good one! People search is fast becoming a leading vertical search category, with many different approaches to solve the problem. We have three of the leading thinkers in the game on our panel, plus Michael Arrington of TechCrunch Moderating. “Find yourself” at this awesome event!
Michael Tanne - CEO Wink
Jaideep Singh – CEO Spock
Bryan Burdick – COO ZoomInfo
- 30% of all searches on Google or Yahoo! are for specific people or people related.
- Marge Simpson “googled” herself for the first time on the latest episode of The Simpsons
- Is there room for a smart new company to take the place of a general search engine to provide better and more accurate results for people queries?
- What’s more important… the head or the tail?
- What about disambiguation? How can that be achieved?
- How does the concept of identity management play in to all of this?
- more more more!
Come and join us…
Time: 6:30 (registration) 7:00 (presentation)
Where: Building 43 – Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043
See you there!
Here it is on Upcoming: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/183783/
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May 8, 2007 at 12:03 pm
[...] I am moderating a panel tonight on people search at Google headquarters in Mountain View. This is an open event with a small fee to attend, more details here. [...]
May 8, 2007 at 10:16 pm
What does Michael Arrington have to do with ‘Search?’
May 20, 2007 at 1:35 pm
[...] Beach, the new co-chair of the SDForum Search SIG. He has put together a very interesting event for Tuesday Night over at Google on People Search. Very interesting topic that has seen a bunch of activity over the past couple of years, and it is [...]
May 22, 2007 at 8:10 pm
[...] People Search – Search SIG – Tuesday, May 8thPeople search is fast becoming a leading vertical search category, with many different approaches to solve the problem. We have three of the leading thinkers in the game on our panel, plus Michael Arrington of TechCrunch Moderating. … [...]
June 1, 2007 at 6:12 pm
[...] People Search – Search SIG – Tuesday, May 8thPeople search is fast becoming a leading vertical search category, with many different approaches to solve the problem. We have three of the leading thinkers in the game on our panel, plus Michael Arrington of TechCrunch Moderating. … [...]
June 11, 2007 at 2:35 am
[...] People Search – Search SIG – Tuesday, May 8thPeople search is fast becoming a leading vertical search category, with many different approaches to solve the problem. We have three of the leading thinkers in the game on our panel, plus Michael Arrington of TechCrunch Moderating. … [...]
June 16, 2007 at 1:24 pm
[...] People Search – Search SIG – Tuesday, May 8thPeople search is fast becoming a leading vertical search category, with many different approaches to solve the problem. We have three of the leading thinkers in the game on our panel, plus Michael Arrington of TechCrunch Moderating. … [...]
November 1, 2007 at 1:37 pm
[...] Beach, the new co-chair of the SDForum Search SIG. He has put together a very interesting event for Tuesday Night over at Google on People Search. Very interesting topic that has seen a bunch of activity over the past couple of years, and it is [...]
June 4, 2008 at 3:09 am
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October 7, 2008 at 7:43 am
Very insightful post. But what does Michael Arrington have to do with people search?
January 26, 2009 at 10:50 pm
For me http://com.lullar.com is the best people search engine.
June 23, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Wow, I didn’t know that searching people and there datas is such a lucrative niche. Thanks a lot. Will surely update my site about it.
June 23, 2009 at 6:56 pm
I dont know where to start. I would check out http://www.google.com to search people.
November 29, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Does anyone have notes from this People Search SIG? I’m launching http://www.wikipeoplesearch.com and invite anyone with legitimate Wiki “encycolpedia” type information to post. I find very little information in other Wiki’s dedicated to this huge vertical market. Thank you.