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How to Search People On The Web? Use Pipl
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How to Search People On The Web? Use Pipl

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:15 AM PDT

I was searching for an old friend on internet when I came across an interesting site-Pipl. Pipl is a specialized search engine for searching people and the results are quite impressive.

Pipl displays not only links to all of your profiles on social networks, but also blog mentions, publications, photos on Flickr, Picasa etc. It also looks for your name in public records, including property records, and birth databases, and mentions "quick facts" about the person-which are snippets from webpages. A quick search for my name gave one of the quick facts "Anshul Dixit is a part time blogger and a full time software engineer", which is part of my bio in Devils Workshop.

What makes Pipl different is the fact that it is capable of searching deep web also, something which regular search engines like Google and Yahoo can't do.

What is Deep Web?

Deep web, also known as "invisible web" refers to a vast amount of data present in online databases that normal search engines like Google can't reach. It is estimated that the amount of such data in deep web is 500 times that in the "surface web".

The reason why regular search engines are not able to crawl in deep web is because the data is stored in databases and not on static web pages. Search engines work on the principle of indexing, that is, they crawl the web by following links found in other pages. But since the information in deep web is stored in database, these search engines can't index it.

How can Pipl help you?

Websites like Flickr, Myspace, Hoovers, Hi5, Friendster, Facebook etc. store personal profile and people related documents in database and not on web pages. So if you were not able to find your lost friend or relative through Google, try Pipl.

Pipl provides four easy ways to look for a contact- Name, e-mail, Username or Phone. Using any of these information you can search for a person. Searching someone through phone number is possible only in US and Canada.

I searched my name in Pipl and this is the result I obtained:

As you can see, the results are categorized according to personal profiles, blogs, websites, publications, and so on.

Some of the uses of Pipl that I can think of are:

1) Searching old friends and relatives.

2) Finding more information about a new acquaintance. With "quick facts" about the person, you can get a rough idea about him.

3) Can be used by companies to get information about a prospective employee. Gives you one more reason why you should be careful before posting anything on internet.

Considering that it is still in beta phase, you can expect some improvements in near future but you might want to check up 5 best search engines for students.

So how are you going to use Pipl?

Link: Pipl

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5 Useful Search Engines For Students

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 05:25 AM PDT

Google has become synonymous with search. But who knows better than a student, how many times Google has failed to produce the desired results. You are looking for a well researched article on High Strength Steel for your project and all you get by 'googling' is a Wikipedia link you can't rely upon. You need an eBook for one of your engineering subjects, and what you get is a link to Google books with some sample chapters. These are just a few of the frustrating experience a student goes through.

So if Google can't provide you with the relevant result, does that mean there is no such information on the web? Well there is. All you need is the right search engine to retrieve it for you.

Here is a list of a few of such search engines.

1) EBook Engine : This is ultimate resource to find free e-books. The website claims that "If your e-book isn’t here, then it is likely you cannot download for free anywhere."

2) Pdf Geni : This is yet another wonderful search engines for ebooks. You can download a firefox search plugin to use it directly from your browser. The search engine is also compatible with iphone.

3) Wolfram Alpha: It is a "computational knowledge engine which aims to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone." You'll find it useful for complex math problems. And what's more, you can download its mobile application to solve your problems on the go.

4) DeepWebTech: If you are looking for some serious articles related to science, business, medical or technology this is the place to go to. It searches for these articles from the "deep web"- the part of the internet that is not crawled by normal search engines like Google. DeepWebTech gets results from the databases of recognized institutes and organizations across the world, something which Google can't do.

A suggestion- use this if you need in depth information, such as for your engineering project etc.

5) DeepPeep: This is another search engine working on the same lines as deepwebtech. You can get articles from the database of renowned institutes like MIT.

Armed with these search engines, you will easily get through all your college reports and projects. And will stay a step ahead of your peers.

Is there some specific search engine you use apart from Google ? Share it with us through your comments.

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How to enable Hibernate Option in Windows Vista/Windows 7

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 11:26 PM PDT

Hibernation is an excellent power management tool especially for laptops. When you hibernate your laptop, it saves everything you are doing so when you turn it on, you don't have to wait for the Windows to boot from the beginning. When the laptop recovers from hibernation, it reloads everything you were doing before the laptop was hibernated.

There are chances that there is no hibernate options on your laptop. In Windows Vista, when you perform disk cleanup, it might delete some of the hibernation files which causes the option to disappear from the power management options.

If you want to enable hibernate option, there are actually two methods which can be used to enable hibernation.

First Method

1. Go to Start Menu and type cmd in search field.

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