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Re: Wink Launches Social Network Search for MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn

Chloe — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:34:32 -0000

i wanna join a social networking yhing loke bebo or hi5 or myspace but cant find any others can any 1 recomend some dont wanna use bebo my space hi 5

Re: Wink Launches Social Network Search for MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn

shawnita — Tue, 08 May 2007 12:43:26 -0000

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Re: Wink Launches Social Network Search for MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn

shawnita — Tue, 08 May 2007 12:42:59 -0000

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Re: Wink Launches Social Network Search for MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn

sophie — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:00:26 -0000

how do u get on to bebo??

Re: Wink Launches Social Network Search for MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn

YS — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:59:06 -0000

Try this one as well:

http://www.socialpeople.net

It includes profiles from 45 networks.

Re: Wink Launches Social Network Search for MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn

Wout Withagen — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:40:07 -0000

Anyone tried The Iternet Address Book here you can search on MySpace, Friendster, LinkedIn, Flickr, ICQ, Hi5, Last.fm, ZoomInfo, Buzznet, Xanga, Bolt and more. The results are quite o.k. though you can't do specific searches on male, female or single persons.
If they are not collecting information from these networks on their own servers I think it's legal.

Re: Wink Launches Social Network Search for MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn

mlstotts — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:44:47 -0000

Jordan - It depends if you're searching for "a" friend or new friends. When I'm searching for a specific friend there is only one result I care about, true. However, when the effort is to find new friends with the same interest - quantity is key. I want to start with the largest field and narrow from there. From the Manchester United example on wink, you could refine by gender to 6,600 then by location to the 11 female fans in San Francisco. Now you can chat up someone about the premiership match against Blackburn today. That's social search.

Re: Wink Launches Social Network Search for MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn

Adrian — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:34:07 -0000

What about the legal aspects involved in all of this. Since Myspace and the other networks do not currently provide an API, I am assuming that Wink is simply spidering these guys. If so, how long until they get blocked or totally shut down?

Re: Wink Launches Social Network Search for MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn

Jordan — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:36:44 -0000

Matthew, are you implying that quantity matters? I would think that relevance is the ultimate measure, since few people get past page 1 of any search engine results page.

Re: Wink Launches Social Network Search for MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn

mlstotts — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:44:00 -0000

Hashim - I beg to differ. I've been running comparisons and find very little that is "just as good." Just one example, Google returns 335 people for the phrase "manchester united" wink's Social Network Search engine returns 23,569. Plus, your co-op has hardly any Bebo results.

Re: Wink Launches Social Network Search for MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn

Hashim Warren — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:15:26 -0000

Like I said on TechCrunch, so what? I just took 5 minutes and created my own social search using Google co-op:

http://google.com/coop/cse?...

Compare them. My results are just as good as Wink.

Re: Wink Launches Social Network Search for MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn

Jon — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:13:36 -0000

This is great that meta-social networking is finally arriving. While Wink is a much more fleshed-out implementation, those who are interested in meta-social networking should check out Snag:

http://www.dappit.com/dappl...

It offers search across LinkedIn, MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, and Hi5. It also allows you to see your friends from all the networks, see your inboxes, and get status updates on your friends.