The most dangerous people search on the web is reportedly for “Cameron Diaz”.

According to a McAfee study of the most dangerous celebrity name searches online, Cameron Diaz is #1.

Spammers and virus creators often use famous people searches to lure people to malicious web sites that spread spyware, malware and viruses.

According to the study about 10% of the sites that come up for a search on Cameron Diaz are malicious sites that install viruses and other malicious code on web searchers computers.

[ Whitehatfirm.com ]

Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan has published an article on the most popular celebrities on Twitter as determined by how many times people search for them on Google.

Using Google’s own keyword search results, Sullivan was able to find out how many times a famous person’s name was searched on Google along with the word “Twitter”.

Here are his results for the most popular Twitter celebrities that people search for on Google:

1. Demetria Lovato – 165,000 Google searches per month.

2. Lance Armstrong – 135,000 monthly searches on Google.

3. Ashton Kutcher – 74,000+ Google searches.

4. Lady Gaga – 74,000 monthly searches.

5. Katy Perry – 49,500 searches.

6. Drizzy Drake – 27,100 Google searches.

7. Bill Simmons – 6,600 searches.

8. Opie ( Opie and Anthony Show ) – 4,400 monthly Google searches.

9. Diablo Cody – 1,600 Google searches.

10. David Pogue – 1,000 monthly Google searches.

There you have it: the most popular celebrities on Twitter as determined by Google people search volume.

[ Source: Search Engine Land ]

We have launched the People Search Forums to help you find and reunite with friends and family that you have lost contact with.

To post a search in the People Search Forums, you must register and follow the posting guidelines.

The search forums are divided into eight different boards, including: Find Family, Find Friends, Find Classmates, Find Military Buddies, Find Birth Parents, Find Adopted Children, Find Lost Loves and Find Coworkers.

We also have a tips post to help you optimize your search post for best results.

Click People Search Forums to register and post your people search for free.

The forums are part of the Skipease people search and public records site.

The facial recognition site Face.com indexed 7 billion photos in the last year and has over 52 million faces identified with its photo tagging and photo search applications on Facebook.

Face.com is expanding its reach to include the entire web by offering a developer option that lets users embed the facial recognition software on any site.

The site’s Photo Finder lets you find pictures of yourself or friends that are untagged and their Photo Tagger lets people collect face pics that can then be tagged with names.

Face.com has become a hit with Facebook users since the social network is now the web’s largest photo-sharing site, with nearly 2 billion photos per month being added.

Their facial recognition tool is even accurate enough to identify faces in pictures that were taken in bad lighting with poor focus. People wearing eyeglasses, hiding under facial hair and even people in costumes can be accurately identified by Face.com.

Face.com claims to use the same privacy protection policies that Facebook uses, which doesn’t do much to alleviate privacy concerns.

Other facial recognition software on the market includes Apple’s iPhoto software, Google’s Picasa, and Polar Rose.

The video below provides an nice overview of how Face.com apps are used on Facebook -

[ Source: VentureBeat.com ]

The hysteria over the Spokeo people search engine has really reached a fevered pitch, with politicians, attorneys general and news media fanning the flames.

I have done numerous people searches on the Spokeo site and, aside from some obvious accuracy issues in the data, I have found nothing that causes me privacy concerns.

It is humorous to see people get worked up over some of their information appearing on people search sites like Spokeo; when some of these same people have no problem telling all about themselves on Facebook and other social networks, in addition to posting compromising pictures of themselves and friends online.

The video below shows Brad Phelps, Chief Deputy for the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office, discussing the Spokeo issue. He initially infers that social security number information is available on the site, until the reporter questions him further on it.

He finally, reluctantly, admits that the information found on the Spokeo site is probably not illegal. No kidding, it is all over the internet on various public record, people search and social networking sites. However, when one web service aggregates it and makes it searchable, it is somehow the end of privacy as we know it.

The privacy hysteria continues…