Get to know Pipl.com
A Pipl Profile is an automatically generated profile that contains a summary of information found on the web.
Pipl is not just about finding more results; we are using advanced language-analysis and ranking algorithms to bring you the most relevant bits of information about a person in a single, easy-to-read results page.
Our deep search robots continually crawls the web and extracts facts and other relevant information from general web documents, personal profiles, blogs, news articles and other publications using natural language processing and statistical analysis; this data is then automatically converted into quick, simple and interlinked people profiles.
Understanding the potential sensitivity of people’s data makes privacy a very important issue for us.
While other social networks have a broader age demographics, member profiles in Bebo and Xanga consist mostly of teens and early 20’s.
Also known as “invisible web”, the term “deep web” refers to a vast repository of underlying content, such as documents in online databases that general-purpose web crawlers cannot reach.
Since most personal profiles, public records and other people-related documents are stored in databases and not on static web pages, most of the higher-quality information about people is simply “invisible” to a regular search engine.
The graph below demonstrates the gender distribution for MySpace, but this data is consistent for Bebo, Hi5, Facebook, Friendster, and Xanga as well.
You can read a summary of this data on our article 5 facts about social networking sites, or find the complete set of interactive graphs and reports on the left side of this page.
This statistical data was compiled based on data from November-December 2007, more information about how this data was obtained and analyzed is available our methodology section.
This is the most consistent demographic characteristics across all social networking sites surveyed, the younger demographics is female dominant while the older demographic is mostly male.
There are various reasons why you might need to search for people, you may need to find a lost relative, an old flame, a classmate or a business contact but if you are using a search engine such as Google or Yahoo to search for people, you have probably realized by now that it might work in some cases but in most cases it won’t.
At this point, there is no way to correct your information but you can request to remove your profile completely.
Unlike a typical search-engine, Pipl is designed to retrieve information from the deep web, our robots are set to interact with searchable databases and extract facts, contact details and other relevant information from personal profiles, member directories, scientific publications, court records and numerous other deep-web sources.
The graph below demonstrates the gender trend for MySpace, while Hi5 shows the opposite trend.
Since this product is in an experimental stage, some errors are possible; we’ll be happy to hear your feedback and will try to improve our data accordingly.
Pipl’s query-engine helps you find deep web pages that cannot be found on regular search engines.
The graph below demonstrates the gender distribution for Hi5 in Asia, but this data is consistent for Friendster, Myspace and in other regions as well.
While the average age of new members in the US did not show any clear direction and in some cases it even showed an increase, the age of new members in other parts of the world is dropping rapidly.
Over the past 12 months, MySpace grew at a rate of about 157 member profiles every minute totaling about 82.7 million new profiles, this translate to 81.5% year over year growth.
