Wink People Search - Part 1 Introduction

This is the first in a series of posts on Wink the 'People Search' website. Later posts will look at the search features in more detail.

Wink People Search is the perfect tool if you want to carry out a quick profile search using a few simple keywords or tags.

Wink has a large collection of profiles from various networks such as Linkedin, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo360, Friendster, Microsoft Live spaces, etc. including links to profiles at these specific networks.

Wink has some impressive profile numbers (> 1 mill) for a number of countries which makes it an important tool in a sourcer's arsenal.

United States - 72.7 mill
United Kingdom - 6.8 mill
Indonesia - 6.0 mill
Canada - 5.2 mill
Malaysia - 4.1 mill
Australia - 3.0 mill
France - 1.8 mill
India - 1.4 mill
Germany - 1.4 mill
Turkey - 1.3 mill
Singapore - 1.2 mill
Italy - 1.0 mill

The search facility is simple as can be seen below. Wink does not need the user to log in to use this facility or access the results.



The basic search can be carried out by name, location, keywords or a combination of these. The search can be further refined using keywords, tags, distance from a given location, etc.

In part 2 we will have a look at the search facility in more detail.