123people is a real time people search tool. Using a proprietary search algorithm, you can find people related information consisting of images, videos, phone numbers, email addresses, social networking, Wikipedia profiles and more.
What makes 123people interesting to me — beyond the User Interface (I’m sick of looking at Google and Yahoo search index pages) – is its crowd wisdom. Users can add information to every single search result, like a Wiki.
I played with 123people for 30 minutes this evening and I couldn’t stump the engine. The site found something on every single person I referenced. Of course different spellings turn up different results just as they do on the major engines like Google and Yahoo. For example, a search for ‘Brad Kay’ turns up a more anemic result than ‘Bradley Kay’ where my optimization is far superior.
Give it a ride and let me know what you think.
Stumble It!
thank you for posting. interesting links attached as well.
True, interesting search engine, played a while with it too.
Had to compare it with “Yasni” right away, especially since Yasni calls itself the “world’s most popular people search engine”.
No idea if that’s true, only thing I know for sure is that Yasni delivered way better results on my name. They have a US version at http://www.yasni.com and a UK version at http://www.yasni.co.uk.
Give it a try, I really like it.
I am in my last year of law school and I am looking to get a job soon. I don’t want all of this kind of information out there on sites like these for prospective employers to find. I tried to look to see how I can remove myself from 123people’s search results (Peekyou effectively removes your results if you request them to in less than a day), but 123people only says that they may remove you on a case-by-case basis, but it sounds like they rarely do because of the indicies.
Has anyone had any luck removing themself from this site? It’s not like I have anything bad on there (just my myspace page), but I found friends who will probably want their info off ASAP.
Still trying to get my email address removed from their website. No replies to my emails. Very frustrating. Also annoying that half the details on my 123people page no longer exists on the websites they retrieved it from, including my email. If only they updated their results. I’m stuck with what to do. Anyone can now find my email address by searching my name on Google. It’s also going to attract spam bots. Arghhh.
Hi Chris.
I work with 123people, what email did you use?
Please email: searchsupport_com@123people.com
Someone should reply as soon as possible
I sent them a message saying that I was fed up and I may take further action if they do not remove it. They eventually did.
I am outraged that this site has my home address and phone number for any crackpots to see. I have emailed them and have not gotten a response. This is completely irresponsible.
Hi Jill,
All the information that is gathered is available publicly. We do NOT access private accounts. If you publish the information online, not only will 123people find it, so will Google.
123people can in fact be used to protect your privacy by searching for where the information came from and removing it from the source.
If you find the information does not disappear within a week, it’s probably down to the source not having removed it properly.
It pays dividends to read terms and conditions when you sign up to a website or when you enter private information somewhere…..
I hope this helps.
123people
Finally, these idiots are taking my private information and selling it. Apparently they are based in Austria. Isn’t that the birthplace of Hitler? They s _ _ k a _ _.
I’m not quite sure what Hitler has to do with 123people;
Nevertheless you should realise (as mentioned in my last reply), that none of the information we publish is private. It’s all available in the public domain for ANYONE to access.
I have asked three times to be removed. NO RESPONSE
I am furious!!!!!!!!!!! Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
if enough complain it will gather weight and they will be challenged. I would like them to remove my details which you can get to by simply typing in any of my phone numbers in google. B***ards.
123People is the worst website ever invented. it symbolises everything that is bad about the internet.
I can think of far worse things including pornography, abuse, sick photos and videos, terrorist planning and so forth. The list could go on and on.
Or perhaps you think a people search engine is worse?
Interesting morals!
Here is Maja from 123people.
I was just reading the comments that you guys wrote about our web site. I was surprised as I read so many positive comments of people who are happy to use a tool like this which can be very helpful whilst searching for a new job, business contacts, lost relatives, friends etc…
Please try to understand that while you may be unhappy seeing your details on 123people, it is not in our power to remove data since we do not post or store information. Those informations are however resolved from publicly available sources on the internet, the 123people engine then collects, sorts and displays them in real time. If you go to the original source of the information and delete it, it will cease to appear in the 123people search results.
Our CS team goes to great effort to ensure the satisfaction of users and thus replies to EVERY e-mail that we receive within 48 to 72 hours.
Enjoy using 123people!
Maja
123people.com
Customer Services Manager
123people is just another one of a long line of bottom feeders who sell people’s personal information online. Maja can try to sugarcoat it as much as she wants, but it boils down to a company that is exploiting others for a quick buck. You can try to contact them to remove your info, but it won’t get you anywhere. You’ll just get a automated response spouting similar verbiage to the drivel that Maja and her co-worker hide behind. I guess it helps them sleep better at night… but i bet Maja’s personal info isn’t displayed on their website. Otherwise i’m sure she would receive an endless stream of complaint emails and phone calls to her home number.
Sad part is the search search results are pathetically inaccurate. It has me living in cities i’ve never even visited, and my age is wrong. What a laughable company.
These muppets (123people) have used a picture of me and my baby in their info along with other pictures and details.
If they don’t remove my details very soon i’ll be taking legal action against them. I don’t mess around, i took the webmaster of a blog to court because he used my details and spammed people. I was compensated with a fair bit of cash and i know for a fact that 123people are in the wrong by using our info in this way. The difference between 123people and google is that google offer to give you a meta tag or a code so their crawlers will find your site/profile and put it in their search results where as 123people just save your details for what’s basically a free people finding website.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the creator is doing business with debt collectors.. These people need a f***in good man slap.
This site 123people is a real shame. It is completely illegal and outrageous and should not exist. Delete this site !!!
It mixes, without any previous consent from the concerned persons, their personal and professional information and publications, it extracts these pieces of information from their context, it mixes the pieces of information with those of homonyms. So, doing so, it hits the comminication strategies set up by the concerned persons, it violates the laws against data protection, it violates private life, it violates author rights.
DELETE THIS SITE !!!