PeekYou
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![]() The Smartest Way to Find People Online | |
Type of business | Private |
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Type of site | Search engine |
Available in | English |
Founded | April 2006 |
Headquarters | New York, New York |
Key people | Michael Hussey, Founder & CEO Baldev Duggal, Investor |
URL | www.peekyou.com |
Registration | optional |
Launched | July 2006 |
Current status | active |
PeekYou is a people search engine that indexes people and their links on the web. The name "PeekYou" is explained as a contraction of People and Seek.[1] Founded in April 2006 by Michael Hussey (the founder of RateMyTeachers and RateMyProfessors.com), PeekYou claims to have indexed over 230 million people,[2] mostly in the US and Canada. The search results are built from publicly available URLs, including MySpace profiles, Friendster, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, blogs, homepages, and news sources.
PeekYou opened its service in stealth mode in July 2006.[3]
References
External links
- PeekYou
- "PeekYou - Spock has Competition" at Techcrunch
- "PeekYou Makes People Search Worthwhile with Google Integration" at Mashable
- Interview with PeekYou founder Michael Hussey