PeekYou is a people search engine that indexes people and their links on the web. Founded in April 2006 by Michael Hussey, PeekYou claims that they have indexed over 250 million people, mostly in the United States and Canada.[1][2] The search results consist of publicly available URLs, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Google+, blogs, homepages, business pages and news sources.[citation needed]

PeekYou, LLC.
The Smartest Way to Find People Online
Type of businessPrivate
Type of site
Search engine
Available inEnglish
FoundedApril 2006
HeadquartersNew York City, United States
Key peopleMichael Hussey, Founder
Thomas Lynch, President
Peter Bordes, Director
URLwww.peekyou.com Edit this at Wikidata
Registrationoptional
LaunchedJuly 2006
Current statusActive

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  1. ^ Keen, Andrew (2012-05-22). Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-62498-9.
  2. ^ Ilten, Carla; Kroener, Inga; Neyland, Daniel; Postigo, Hector (2012-08-13). Managing Privacy through Accountability. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-03222-5.
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