Today marks the launch of MyLife, the Web’s newest source for people search. For the first time, people can turn to one place to easily find anyone, and manage multiple relationships across social networks and other online sites. With this announcement, MyLife becomes the most effective and efficient way for people to find and keep track of everyone in their life.
The company offers the industry’s most powerful online and offline people search capabilities with a database of over 750 million profiles, and unique services to help people find anyone, anywhere across the Web.
The new site is the result of the successful merger between Reunion.com and Wink Technologies in November 2008. Reunion.com’s rapidly growing user base of more than 50 million members can now quickly search more than 750 million profiles from online and offline sources using Wink’s unrivalled proprietary people search technology. With significant user traction and a profitable business model, this powerful combination firmly positions MyLife as the leader in people search.
MyLife meets a critical market need left unmet by Google and other people search options. As people grow, move on, or switch social networks we inevitably lose track of the people who matter to us, and it’s a basic human need to reach out and get back in touch for all the reasons people want to connect. Before MyLife, searching for people online was a frustrating and time-consuming process. General search engines are not designed to display the most relevant people search results and do not access the offline databases you have to check when conducting a thorough search. Existing people search sites have limited reach or depth of information and don’t look across the boundaries of proprietary social networks.
“Until now, not even Google provided a single, definitive solution for easily finding people. With an estimated seven billion people searches in the United States every month, there is an enormous need to better satisfy consumers with relevant and useful results,” said Jeffrey Tinsley, founder and chief executive officer of MyLife. “MyLife fills that huge demand, and our groundbreaking people search technology positions MyLife to be the first and last word in people search. In the future, when you’re looking for Web documents or other information, no doubt you’ll still go to your current search engine of choice. When you’re looking for people, you’ll go to MyLife.”
MyLife takes people search beyond the one-shot query by offering many unique services to assist in finding people and staying connected:
* Search Via Multiple Criteria: MyLife offers advanced search and filtering options including: name, email address, company, school, location and more
* Find Everyone You Know Across the Web: MyLife gives people a global view into all the consumer-facing networks their friends, family, and professional contacts are part of, including LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace as well as 50 other sites
* See Who’s Searching for You: MyLife lets you find out who is searching for you, and alerts members when there are new searches for them
* People We Found for You: MyLife suggests friends and professional contacts you may know based on your profile information and existing network of contacts
* Search Scout: If members don’t immediately find who they’re looking for, MyLife continues searching on their behalf and provides updates and alerts as new information becomes available on people of interest
* Profile Builder: Members can easily find their other online profiles across the web and instantly connect them to a unified MyLife profile
Source: MyLife.com
Readers, is a search engine press release like this helpful to you, or just fluff?
Have you taken a look at MyLife.com yet? If you have, what do you think of it?
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February 24th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Seriously, this is a joke. This ’search engine’ is US centric, you have to register in order to get access to any data, and even when you do all that you have is a list of possible matches, and in order to get any more information you’ve got to pay to become a premium member.
I’m really disappointed that you’re promoting something like this – I note that the source is the search engine itself which is hardly unbiased reporting.
February 24th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Phil,
As far as posting information from a search engine about itself, all I can say is that out of the past 2,400 individual posts, we have had hundreds of Press Releases from alternative search engines, and, as you note, we cite the source. They are each grateful that we have taken their message to our readers.
We have also had CEO views and interviews where they brag about their projects. We’ve also had fair, but encouraging, reviews from Hope, Rafi, and Mark T. We’ve had multi-engine debates. Many search engines have donated scholarly guest posts on a wide variety of search topics. Experts like Peggy Salz and Mark Robertson advise us on Mobile and Video search engines, for example. I’ve even written an original piece of fiction now and then!
In other words, in order to fulfill our mission of finding and presenting to our readers every alternative search engine out there, and promoting their success, we have displayed an amazing variety of posts, daily and globally. Not many bloggers have as their goal the success of these search engines – but we do. It’s why we exist.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Ecommerce helps with day-to-day activities and makes things simple and easy. And the best part is that all the things can be done online and from anywhere.
January 14th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
i dont want to be a member. I dont know what happend when i visited ur webb. but take me off ur list please.