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TechCrunch broke the news recently that Pipl.com has taken over the top position in the people search niche in the U.S. - though Spock still leads that market globally.

Roi Carthy at TechCrunch calls the new Pipl.com scary.It produces not only links to all of your profiles on social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn, blog mentions, and photos on Flickr. It finds mentions of your name in public records, including property records, SEC filings, and birth databases. It also finds e-mail addresses and summarizes "quick facts" about the person.What does that mean? I found an email address on one of my daughters (I already had it.) I found my little sister's address, phone number, birthday and age, and her husband's name (all of which I already knew).

The I searched my own name. Huge pile of stuff.

I didn't see any social security numbers, credit info, etc. in the free searches. It would be interesting to see what comes back on the paid search. Pipl searches the web itself instead of just databases. You get public documents that are online - a potential for criminal records, professional licenses, deeds, etc. It's still not great for "John Smith" (I have a friend by that name). But if your looking for someone with a name with a little less commonality, the potential is great.

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By:  Greg Cruey                        Source

The Philippines have exceeded its outsourcing prediction.

This was the general view of the research report conducted by the advisory firm XMG. According to the report, the Philippines could experience an annual growth rate of 62% thus surpassing the outsourcing growth expected in other outsourcing countries such as China, India, and Malaysia.

Different factors which could attribute to this trends was also mentioned in the study stating that:

"The cost of operations in top outsourcing destinations is increasing due to wage hikes needed to retain good people, coupled with rising real estate prices and the effect of accelerated currency appreciation in Asia."

I think that the Philippines also possess qualities that every outsourcing destination has. The only problem here is the marketing strategy that these countries have. In this department, countries should think of suitable and attractive ways to attract clients so as to promote their country in the world of outsourcing.

Erratum: I originally wrote that the study was done with ICT. I would like to correct this mistake because the research was conducted solely by XMG. Apologies to any inconvenience that I have caused.

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By:  Carol Kendrick                        Source