Alternative People Search engine Wink released advanced profile controls today, giving people complete control over the contents of the search result for their name. Wink’s enhanced profiles bring together information from numerous popular communities, and allow Wink members to fill in or correct their own profiles. Wink’s profile controls also allow people to contact friends they find online, and choose how they want to be contacted by friends who find them.

“At Wink we are constantly seeking ways to make it easier and more intuitive to find and connect with old friends, classmates, colleagues and business contacts wherever they are online,” said Michael Tanne, CEO of Wink. “Today we have reinforced our commitment to the people found with our search engine by providing them with complete control over the content in their profile, and letting them express how they prefer to be contacted by others.”

Control Over Search Profiles
Some People Search engines list only information that is posted on the Web regardless of accuracy, and some give authority to community tags or anonymous editors in an attempt to incrementally improve search results.  Wink allows users to claim and control their search profile on the Wink People Search engine and gives the owner of each profile complete authority to edit, correct or remove any content — photos, tags, labels, descriptions, links or feeds — in their profile. This helps them prevent false or defamatory information from persisting, and lets them present themselves as they’d like to be seen.

Rich Search Profiles
Wink has a new look!  You’ll notice that the Wink profiles are much richer.  There is also better navigation and inline editing.  Wink’s updated search profiles allow the display of richer information, including biography, interests, work, school and other information.  Additionally each profile can have multiple photos, so users can upload additional photos or delete old ones they don’t like. 
(I’m pretty happy with mine.  That’s me with my wolf-hybrids Kira and Shadow.)

Friend’s Feeds
Wink users can view a feed of their friends’ postings to any RSS-enabled site such as Twitter, Flickr, Jaiku, and Amazon Wish Lists, wherever they are across the Web. By choosing to “follow” their friends and other people they find interesting, people can view all the postings in one feed.

“Contact Me” feature
At Wink they are constantly seeking ways to make it easier and more intuitive to find and connect with old friends, classmates, colleagues and business contacts wherever they are online.  They’ve added a way for you to choose how you would like to be contacted by someone who is looking for you. You can choose from IM, Skype, email, or leaving a message at Wink. You can also contact others using their preferred method. If they haven’t claimed their profile yet, you can still leave a message. They’ll see there’s a message waiting when they join Wink. So look for the Contact Me information on all the profiles on Wink - this makes it easy for you to contact people you find on Wink.

Wink has nearly tripled the number of people it searches since it launched in November of 2006. To find people online, Wink has worked with many of the leading social networks and online communities, including MySpace, Hi5, LinkedIn, Friendster, Bebo, Live Spaces, Xanga, Twitter and more.

Wink is also announcing today that it has formed a partnership with ZoomInfo to include the 38 million ZoomInfo profiles assembled from information from across the Internet in the Wink search results.
To satisfy followers of celebrity news and the “internet famous,” Wink has included results about people found on popular Web sources such as Wikipedia and IMDB. Whether people are searching for celebrities, old friends, new friends, business contacts or anyone else, Wink can help find them online by their name, location, interests, tags, school, work, and other criteria.

About Wink
Wink is a People Search engine that makes it easier to find and connect with people across the Web by providing search of over 250 Million profiles across social networks and on-line communities. Wink users can claim their on-line profiles to manage their on-line presence. Wink’s patent-pending PeopleRank technology provides the most relevant people search results.

So check out Wink’s new features, search for your friends, and invite them to join you on Wink! 

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