Comments on: Business.Com Adds People Search http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/01/businesscom_adds_people_search.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=businesscom_adds_people_search Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Tue, 21 May 2013 00:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Rick Mason http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/01/businesscom_adds_people_search.php#comment-21757 Rick Mason Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:23:15 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/01/businesscom_adds_people_search.php#comment-21757 <p>Quite frankly I can do far better Googling my name.</p> <p>It rather annoyingly included all the Patrick's in with the Rick's.</p> <p>If they added a third field for "industry" I think those with more common names would have better luck.</p> Quite frankly I can do far better Googling my name.

It rather annoyingly included all the Patrick’s in with the Rick’s.

If they added a third field for “industry” I think those with more common names would have better luck.

]]> By: John Girard http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/01/businesscom_adds_people_search.php#comment-21756 John Girard Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:39:10 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/01/businesscom_adds_people_search.php#comment-21756 <p>This feature is powered by a company called Eliyon. Pretty interesting technology. It is entirely automated, keying off of press releases and corporate info pages to build profiles of people. Slick.</p> <p>Of course, it's not without its problems. We demo'd it and found that in addition to being the president of Walt Disney World, Annette Funicello (!) was also doing some work as a Witch on the side. . .</p> This feature is powered by a company called Eliyon. Pretty interesting technology. It is entirely automated, keying off of press releases and corporate info pages to build profiles of people. Slick.

Of course, it’s not without its problems. We demo’d it and found that in addition to being the president of Walt Disney World, Annette Funicello (!) was also doing some work as a Witch on the side. . .

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