Wink  is one of the new people search engines.  They build their own index of people on the Web; so its not a meta search engine.  They also focus on treating profiles differently than just Web pages - paying attention to structures such as name, location, age, school, work, etc.  Wink claims to search over 200,000,000 profiles across MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Y!360, Live Spaces, Xanga, Wikipedia, IMDB, Twitter, and more.

Wink’s vision is to provide the fastest and easiest way for people to find, learn about and connect with other people across the Web. People searches are increasingly the way people connect.  And Googling people can yield some pretty ‘random’ results, according to Wink .

At Wink, you can search for old friends, new friends, business contacts, celebrities, blind dates , and anyone else by name, location, interests, school, work, groups and more. Wink also lets people manage their on-line presence by claiming their own places.

So, did we miss a good one?  Check it out, eh? Nudge, nudge,   ;-)   ;-) 
 

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