Spokeo People Search

In 2006, riding on the surge of social networks, people search once again returned to its interactive, social roots.  Eyeing the wealth of information generated by social networks, a new wave of people search companies started aggregating and searching information across all social media, including social networks, bookmarking sites, photo storage sites, blogs, and even online encyclopedias!

This new paradigm of people search greatly transformed this industry.  When you search for someone online, what would you rather see, an old address and phone number, or up-to-date tweets from Twitter?

Only one major problem remained with this new wave of Web 2.0 people search companies.  Searching for ‘John Irving’ produced 100 matches.  How can you find someone without looking through each result?

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