Wink, the Social Network Search Engine launched
The social network search engine, Wink has announced the public release of the first search engine that enables people to search across multiple social networks. With the help of the social search engine, Wink people will be able to find others with similar interest.
“Wink searches across over 100 million people from all walks of life,” said Michael Tanne, founder and CEO of Wink. “We are really excited about helping people connect across continents and cultures as our searchable index of public profiles from multiple social networks grows into the hundreds of millions.”
A great feature of Wink is the ‘Wink People Search’, which provides several ways to search for people according to their interests, affiliations, general location (no addresses), musical tastes, age and occupation. Wink social network search engine gives communities tools to block spam, and bookmark, rate and organize the best Web sites and then apply Wink’s patent-pending PeopleRank technology.
Wink, the social networking search engine maintains that it respects the privacy of its users and the privacy policies of every social network it searches. It says that it will leave out privacy-protected information and will allow users to opt-out, bringing the number of people it searches lower than the size of the combined social networks.
Profiles that are searchable on Wink are publicly available on their sites of origin. For any person who does not wish to have their profile publicly viewed, Wink, the Social Search Engine has made a collection of links from each social network that explains how to adjust their settings.
New Social Networks will be added to the search engine every few weeks. Wink People Search users help to prioritize these new additions by voting for their favorite social networks.
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