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Nowadays you can find almost any information on any person online.  An employer can learn his potential worker’s past records and recommendations. You can investigate a person’s character, friends, find his photos and videos. Alternatively you can look for no one in particular - searching for new connections with similar interests or professional goals. You can even look for a buddy to share a room or trip expenses.  So let’s go beyond ‘Google-ing’ someone and see how else people are searched and found over the Internet.

1. How to find people based on interest

PeopleJar is a service connects people through the networks of interests. You can search people by any combination of relevant attributes, you can create your own search and save it to let the system update you of new members meeting the search criteria.

2. How to aggregate results from several social networks

Wink.com is a social media profile aggregator and people search tool. It has now the ability to unite and crawl profiles from most popular social networking sites: MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. The process looks like this: a person signs up with Wink, adds links to his profiles at any (or all) supported social media sites and thus gets into the search index.

3. How to search people by name using people search engines

Zoominfo.com focuses on business related information: it will look for the person as an employee of various companies. It has a fairly large database and you most likely to find relevant business related information on the person you are interested in.

Have you looked for people online?  Tell us your experience in the comments!

This is a guest post by Ann Smarty, who does SEO and Internet Marketing when she’s not writing for blogs-named-after-food.  Want to write for Friedbeef’s Tech and share your tips with thousands of people?  Drop me a line.  We’re looking for paid regulars, as well as guest appearances.