SquidWho: Squidoo launches people search engine

[mandy]

We’re not sure when it launched, but Fred Wilson has discovered that Seth Godin’s Squidoo has quietly entered the people search field with a new product called Squidwho.

Squidwho provides similar features to competitors including Wink, Spock, PeekYou, WikiYou and Zoominfo. Pages include a short biography, Amazon products (where applicable), YouTube videos, Flickr shots, latest news and RSS feed data from appropriate sites.

Each page is maintained my Squidoo Lens Guide and offers the same revenue share model as regular Squidoo pages offer...

full article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/16/squ...le-search/

While not the first people search engine to come out, SquidWho wants to list every person on the planet. If you’re searching for someone famous, they’ll bring up “the single best fanpage” (an arbitrary statement if I’ve ever read one) about that person. If you search on yourself, and there is no page for you yet, they’ll automatically generate one for you to claim and fill out...

full article: http://mashable.com/2007/09/16/squidwho/