WhitePages people search ( www.whitepages.com ) announced last week that they will add social network profiles from Twitter and Facebook to their people search engine.<\/p>\n
Users will now be able to search for a person’s phone number and address as well as profile pages on Facebook and Twitter for people.<\/p>\n
Whitepages hopes the addition of social network profiles in their people search results will enhance the services reputation as the most comprehensive and useful people search engine online.<\/p>\n
Whitepages CEO Alex Algard stated: “Whether it’s social data, landlines, cell phones, or email address, WhitePages is committed to building the most comprehensive people search service on the Web.”<\/p>\n
Social networks and regular search engines often fall short as effective people search tools due to their large indexes of data.<\/p>\n
Users can benefit from niche people search engines like WhitePages. Over the past decade the Whitepages people search engine has enhanced is search to include nicknames and name relevancy matching.<\/p>\n
The announcement to include social network profiles in the Whitepages people search is a preview of how social network information will eventually be included throughout the WhitePages search engine.<\/p>\n
By the mid 2010, WhitePages hopes to expand the number of social network listings by adding social network profiles to their work and residential search results.<\/p>\n
People can also add links to their own social network profiles by using WhitePages’ personal editing options.<\/p>\n