Biggest Undiscovered People Search Site on Web‏

People want and expect to know more about other people on the Internet.

Online search, news, e-mail, social media, advertising—all is becoming more personal and targeted. Who is the seller of this auction item? The sender of this e-mail? The author of this blog post? Whom am I interviewing for a job? Meeting on a date? Reading about in this article? PeekYou’s primary goal has always been to be in a position to answer that question.

With that in mind, tech entrepreneur Michael Hussey created PeekYou, a people-search company focused on indexing the public Web around people. While traditional search engines calculate the likelihood of any URL being associated to a keyword, PeekYou calculates the way URLs relate to individuals.

To date, over 250 million people have been indexed by PeekYou and the site is ranked as one of the 600 most visited pages on the Web, according to Quantcast, serving over 5 million unique visitors every month. The key to PeekYou’s success are the utility patented algorithms that analyze and filter all public web content, crunching through billions of records to find the right person for any given search.