Pipl.com - People Search

You should take a look at Pipl.com if you want to find someone through Internet and have not found him or her yet. Although the social networks can give a hand at finding old classmates or relatives, sometimes you don't get the result you want. This happens especially when you look for people with common names that can be repeated by the thousands. Imagine for example trying to find a friend from the neighbourhood where you lived as a kid, with whom you played often, and whose name is John Smith.

Facebook will not be of much help there, and turning to Google will most probably retrieve the main character from Stephen King's classic novel The Dead Zone, played on film by Christopher Walken in 1983. So where is the little Johnny from your childhood, then? That is when Pipl.com can help you.



The site is basically a search engine which looks up people rather than general results. This is done by several tools. One of them is the access to the Hidden Web or Deep Web. These terms define a huge amount of web content that is formed of information that stays uncharted by general purpose web crawlers. The Hidden Web is many times bigger than the surface web we are all used to navigate.

Another of the tools that Pipl.com uses is Identity Resolution, which relates scattered pieces of information of one person into one profile and by doing so, determines if that is the person you were really looking for.

The site includes a Success Stories section, where you will be able to read the postings of people who already found that long lost relative or friend by using Pipl.com. Just give it a try and see by yourself the advantages you can get from it.