Pipl - The ultimate in ego surfing » MATEOSQUARED’S iSEARCH

Pipl has taken ego surfing to the next level. I thought Google had cool results when I typed in mine or a friends name, but Pipl takes it to a whole different level. Pipl is a people only search engine that scours the “deep-web” for very specific and personal information about people.

Also known as “invisible web”, the term “deep web” refers to a vast repository of underlying content, such as documents in online databases that general-purpose web crawlers cannot reach. The deep web content is estimated at 500 times that of the surface web, yet has remained mostly untapped due to the limitations of traditional search engines.

It doesn’t just pick up random blog comments and high school accomplishments, their spiders crawl through government databases, and several other personal databases. Want to know the tax record for someone’s house? Want to see what others are saying about you on MySpace? Go to Pipl.

Some of the databases Piple spiders are:

Securities and Exchange Commission
ICQ
Hoovers
US Patent Office
MySpace

Much like any other good search engine, they have a toolbar people can download, so they can either ego surf or search for other people any time they want.