Find People On The Web With Pipl

Scenario: You're trying to search for an old friend or acquaintance (but you're not a stalker)
Solution: Find people online with Pipl




Like it or not, the notion of searching for somebody online will probably always be draped in a stalker-ish shroud. Many people are creeped-out to think that their personal information is on the Internet, but at the same time we voluntarily give out data to Web sites every day (think about Facebook and MySpace as a couple of good examples).

But occasionally there IS a genuine reason why you'd want to look somebody up that's devoid of simple curiosity or criminal intent. Pipl is a search engine that's designed to find people, rather than web pages. It scours everything from public records to social networking profiles and returns a list of results.


It works better for some people over others. A search for my name didn't bring-up many relevant matches, but a search for my girlfriend's name bought a whole range of blog postings, web site mentions and even former career data.

It's important to remember that all this data is already in the public domain - Pipl simply aggregates it together on a single page. So is this a case of don't shoot the messenger? On that point, I'll let you decide.....