The ab|inventio Gazette

SuperTicker writes about Whozat in his StumbleUpon review: “Whozat is a meta people-search engine drawing information from several social and professional networking sites as well as the web at large. Moreover, it lets you refine your search (indicate what’s “zat”) so to improve the relevance rank of your search results. See the Help pages.You can enter part of a name or even include keywords that would distinguish your person of interest from all the others. I would consider it to be the most comprehensive people-search engine I’ve seen.” 

More on this coming soon. –Alex 

ChicaGeek covered Whozat yesterday and described its results as superior to Google’s and surprising. For the Spanish readers among you, here is the full review: http://elgeek.com/2008/10/30/whozat-buscador-de-datos-personales-le-dice-adios-a-nuestra-privacidad/ 

abInventio, Whozat and QLess signed on mPRm, the PR firm behind Overture, RealNetworks, Disney, Dolby, Fox, Viacom and the Oscars. We are proud to be working with a top-notch team including Rachel McCallister, Bret Ingraham and Natalie Yallouz.

Just Whozat Next President of the USA .

Alex Backer was appointed by Caltech President Jean-Lou Chameau, and joins a distinguished set of colleagues at the California Institute of Technology’s IST Board.

Bookmark http://whozat.com/search1/  if you prefer to enter your Whozat queries in a single box (for two boxes, use http://www.whozat.com/search2 .

To add Whozat to the search engines that you can use from the box in the top right of Internet Explorer (IE) or Mozilla Firefox, click on http://www.searchplugins.net/pluginlist.aspx?q=whozat&mode=title and click on I for Install. You can choose whether to make it the default or not.  

To do the same for Chrome,  go to the Settings menu at top right (looks like pliers), choose Options, make sure you are in the Basics tab, click on Manage next to Default search, click Add, enter Whozat into Name, w into the Keyword field, and http://www.whozat.com/search/?oneboxname=%s&search=Whozat+Me&src=Chrome into the URL field. Then click OK, select Whozat in the list of search engines and click on Make Default.

–Alex 

Check out ISSNAF’s interview of Marzia. –Alex