Privacy has been all the rage this year and mostly blamed on the popular social networking site, Facebook. However, as debates continue that it is not just Social Media invading our privacy, many have disputed that it has been the Internet itself all along. With lingering questions like “How can we tell?”
A people search engine known as
PeekYou has just launched a free application which contains 250 million people on its database titled, PeekScore. PeakScore sizes the digital footprint that we all leave while using the Internet and ranks it from 1 to 10. This application bases its continuing updates on the person’s known presence on the Internet from their activity, which can include but are not limited to such examples as; Blogging, usage of social networks, the amount of friends, followers, and readers they have, as well as the amount of content they create on the Internet and their impact in the news.
“PeekScore has long been in development and w e’re excited to unveil the first release to the public,” said Michael Hussey, Founder, and CEO of PeekYou. “It has been a big hit in private beta testing, and everyone seems to want to know how they measure up to their peers. We believe PeekScore is a truly revolutionary tool in the same vein of Google’s PageRank.”
With the help of PeekScore you are now able to find out who the top web personalities are, whom the top leaders are in any field, and information about the communities that mean most to you. PeekScore gives you the ability to rank yourself amongst your peers and see just how much influence you have in amongst the World Wide Web.
As we have become more socialized on the Internet and are continuing to grow in abundance, many have self proclaimed themselves as influencer’s or experts within various areas, which has left many people wondering who is telling the truth? PeekYou an
d PeekScore can not only provide you with detailed information about the person you are interested in finding information about, but will also allow you to see just how much they measure up Online.
How high do you score?
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