PeekYou.com is a new way for you to manage and control your reputation online:
PeekYou is a new kind of online white pages.
A PeekYou profile helps other people find your websites, social-networking pages, photos, or anything else about you online. You can also create a profile for friends or relatives to ensure that they may also be easily found online.
What’s the point?
Well, the importance of online reputation management is becoming more important as potential employers are looking to online presence to find out more about potential candidates. So, this means that you need to be aware of what is online about you, or someone that caries the same name. Having a unique name, does not mean that you are the only one out there. Case in point, my name is pretty unique (more my last name), but there are others out there with the same or similar names. A political cartoonist, a programmer, a labor policy specialist at UC Berkeley, TV actor, an artist, chess master, another programmer that owns the domain StephenPitts.com…
Will the real Stephen Pitts please stand up?
So, knowing what is out there is only the first step. The second is setting yourself from your competitors, PeekYou.com can help with that!
The site allows users complete freedom to edit, add or remove information, links, photos, and tags (school, work, interests, etc.) associated with their profile or other PeekYou user’s profiles. In addition, PeekYou provides human created search engine results, reducing nonspecific and incorrect matches. Concerned with maintaining privacy, PeekYou empowers individuals with the opportunity to be “unlisted” (similar to the White Pages) as well as edit their profiles to ensure correct and accurate information.
If you are concerned about the privacy and terms of service, you will find them here: Privacy Policy Terms of Service
Here is more information about this new service (still in beta):
Looking for someone (or yourself)?
You can add people to PeekYou simply by clicking on a simple button after a search.
Finding too many people?
You can limit your search by location or tags (sorted by life, school or work)
Standard bio
Here are the items on the Biography Page:
- Photo
- Name
- Geographic Location
- User names (known)
- Sex
- Age
- Life
- Work
- School
- Personal
- Business
- Social Networking
- Press & News
- Photos & Video
- RSS
Bio
Feeds
Info
Tags
Links
This is also an opportunity to build links! This will also help you set yourself (and your online profiles) to outrank others with your name. This is the first step in stepping over others so you are more visible.
Just a bit more information from PeekYou about PeekYou.com:
Created by RateMyFace.com and RateMyTeachers.com/RateMyProfessors.com founder Michael Hussey, PeekYou aims to be an open source directory of every individual online. Hussey, who has been featured on CNN, NPR and BBC amongst others looks to bring his experience developing popular consumer destination sites to building PeekYou into the premiere people search engine. Each individual will have their own personalized page and a PeekYou profile that will include bookmarked links to all information available about the target person. PeekYou differentiates itself from other people searchers by the site’s ability to link and identify numerous Internet identities to a single individual based upon tags and online identities.
What are others saying?
Search Engine Journal
John Battelle
What are your thoughts?
Is online reputation management necessary?
Have you tried PeekYou? Let me know!
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My question is – with so many whitepages, yellow pages, directories and so forth – don’t you just make the problem worse for people trying to find you?
This is a pretty cool idea! I can imagine a lot of things developing from this concept. I am looking forward to seeing how it works out!
All the traffic these articles are generating must be overloading their server, i’ve been trying to get on their site for the last half hour to check it out and it keeps timing out.
Omad,
I understand your point, however, the same could be said about search engines. There is a different flavor for everyone… I think that the exposure is valuable, especially in a portal (like PeekYou) that gives you the ability to adjust the information that is inaccurate. Incorrect information will always exist. If you cannot correct the inaccuracies but this gives you the ability to publish the truth.
Peekyou is just a lame front for peoplefinders,and are about to get into VERY hot water over some notable persons being listed without permission from Homeland Security or The Department of Diplomatic Security,that are under their protection.
This is a Federal Offense. And I am personally going to see them fry.