Do you find 123people.com useful?

I've been using 123people.com/.co.uk/.de/.fr recently. I found it quite useful sometimes in terms of finding people's online presence (email addresses if you are lucky). What do you think of it and are there any other better tools out there? thank you.

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Gillis on December 16, 2008 at 12:06pm

I've found 123people.com useful, but there are a few other tools that i prefer to use. Wink.com allows you to search numerous networking sites at one time. Yahoo! also has the unique ability to limit your search to personal web pages by adding feature:homepage to the search string. It is designed to search for URLs with a tilda(~) in them that set up like personal web pages, similar to when universities allow students to create their own web pages on the schools server. I hope that is helpful.
-Ryan

Permalink Reply by Julia Stone on December 18, 2008 at 12:29pm

http://pipl.com/ is one that I find effective, but I never take a one tool solves all approach. You could ask 10 people this question and get 10 different responses that are all correct.

I love this business!

Permalink Reply by Jan Kirchner on February 2, 2009 at 1:34pm

I use the .de version of 123people regularly and find it useful. However I normaly use a second and third people search engine in order to get more results, www.yasni.com and www.myonid.com that is.

Permalink Reply by Regina Farr on February 3, 2009 at 8:06pm