Wink Helps You Find People

Want to find scrabble players in Brooklyn? Or perhaps fans of the theremin in San Francisco? Or how about a professional rodeo clown in Montana… Knitters in Arcadia? Everyone who wants to be Borat?

Then Wink people search is for you.

Wink now searches social networks including MySpace, LinkedIn, and Bebo. (We’ll be adding more all the time.) The idea here is to help people find what they’re looking for by using social media tools as the means to derive relevancy.

So, with Wink, you can search the web or find people who are on the web. We hope that this will help to bring people closer together, no matter where they are on the web.

Have fun and please let us know what you think!

10 November 2006 | Wink | Comments

4 Responses to “Wink Helps You Find People”

  1. 1 David Mackey 11 November 2006 @ 5:46 pm

    Looks pretty cool. But the general search still seems to be broken. I can rate Wink rated sites, but not those in the general Google index. I have tried using both Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and IE 7.

  2. 2 Beach 12 November 2006 @ 4:18 pm

    Thanks David. Yeah there are a few bugs still out there that we’re sewing up. I totally appreciate you staying on top of us!

    -beach

  3. 3 Wink: Now a Better Social Marketing Tool 15 November 2006 @ 8:10 am

    […] Besides its new people search functionality Wink seems to be a pretty run of the mill social search engine. Once Wink users login they can create collections, upload bookmarks, tag items, change rankings of results and all those other things Jim Lanzone thinks searchers are too lazy to do. […]

  4. 4 Ryan 17 November 2006 @ 12:18 am

    Is the people search real time, or are the results cached?

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