Search Your Entire Address Book Using Pipl Contacts
For those unacquainted, Pipl is a people search engine leveraging the “deep web” to find information on a contact you search for. They use many sources, going deeper than your run of the mill search on one of the big search engines. Whether you are searching for information on a business contact, family or friends, it is a powerful search tool. Some call it creepy, others highly useful. Its popularity is proven as Lifehacker readers rated it the top people search engine.
Pipl recently released a beta version called Pipl Contacts Search which allows you to search your entire address book and use an address book style interface to see deeper information than you may know such as the various profiles they may have across the Internet, media like images and pictures possibly associated with them, publications whether PDF file or other documents with their name in it, and also of course web pages and blog posts.
On a scale of importance of from 1 to 10 in early 2009, real-time search may have been given a 5 or 6. But by the end of 2009, the heat was on, and now its given an importance of an 8 or 9.
