September 9, 2010
The Internet was founded to network the computers, with an aim to easily facilitate and access knowledge and information. Over the years this network has become immensely massive and an unbelievable repository of facts and figures. Important amongst them is the data about the people. The reasons to know the information about any particular person might be personal or related to business, but this has become a popular activity on the Internet.
Many people search sites are popular in America and other countries, and now India has its own first and largest people search portal JantaKhoj, the literal Hindi translation of ‘People Search’. The site states its aims to “Power the most comprehensive People Search service covering the residents of India, and democratize the background verification process and being it within easy reach of every individual.” Further as stated on its site, they claim to apply “the data aggregation technologies to solve the complex problems in People Search and Background Checks that are unique to Indian scenario.”
It is indeed unique and challenging for a country of 1.17 billion people, “where there is still a long way for the public databases to come online and become accessible to the search engines,” says Tarun of JantaKhoj.com. The site with the punch line ‘Search People, Research Background’ has extended its services to include online and offline background checks on prospective domestic help, servants, maids, drivers, tenants, life-partners or employees. The search results are programmed to include the blogs and patents, apart from the court records, social profiles, pictures, videos, book results, web links, news, and personal address or phone number details.
JantaKhoj demonstrates similarities with the Cluuz Search Engine platform, where the results are displayed through semantic graphs. Just over a year old, it has a long way to go to bring the entire Indian population on to the electronic database.
Leena Singh, September 9, 2010
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