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What ever happend to greplin? weren't they also kind of going to solve this? They were in the news a ton until they weren't.

But yeah, we need this. Even Facebook's search has been nerfed compared to where it was years ago. It is a colossal pain, all the data is there but no one wants to organize it

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Greplin is a personal search system, isn't it? Its corpuses are private.

Greplin is awesome and Daniel's team is super impressive. But they focus and index on all your private data like messages, emails, etc. We are trying to improve the 30% of internet searches online that are people-related. I love how you say Facebook's search has been nerfed.. I may borrow that for the Demo Day preso. :)

:) please do. It was. It was always a bit limited but there used to be a decent set of controls. Filter by gender, age, likes, institution, even dating status I believe. Now practically nothing. I think name and possibly sub filter by group. That's it. It's pathetic, and pretty much useless for anything other then finding people in your list by name faster than scrolling down the page.

The companies that were working on this before were pipl, spock, yasni, 123people, isearch, wink, etc.

True.. but they all use public records. Use one of these services and find all your friends and old classmates that live in New York. And their UI makes you start by typing a name... we reimagined and redesigned what people search could be.

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