PeekYou

PeekYou, LLC.

The Smartest Way to Find People Online
Type of business	Private
Type of site	Search engine
Available in	English
Founded	April 2006
Headquarters	New York City, United States
Key people	Michael Hussey, Founder Thomas Lynch, President Peter Bordes, Director
URL	www.peekyou.com
Registration	optional
Launched	July 2006
Current status	Active

PeekYou is a people search engine that indexes people and their links on the web. Founded in April 2006 by Michael Hussey, PeekYou claims that they have indexed over 250 million people, mostly in the United States and Canada. ^{[1] [2]} The search results consist of publicly available URLs, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Google+, blogs, homepages, business pages and news sources.^{[ citation needed ]}

See also

• Information broker

Further reading

• "PeekYou - Spock has Competition" at Techcrunch
• "PeekYou Makes People Search Worthwhile with Google Integration" at Mashable
• "PeekYou’s Hussey Offers Glimpse Into Data Practices" at Adotas
• "'Scrapers' Dig Deep for Data on Web" at Wall Street Journal

References

1. Keen, Andrew (2012-05-22). Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us. Macmillan. ISBN   978-0-312-62498-9.
2. Ilten, Carla; Kroener, Inga; Neyland, Daniel; Postigo, Hector (2012-08-13). Managing Privacy through Accountability. Springer. ISBN   978-1-137-03222-5.

External links

• Official website