An hour back, just for some ego boost, I searched for my name in searchmash.com and found my name associated with a website known as Naymz.com. Supposedly "Empowering Reputable Professionals", this is a website similar linkedin -- a professional networking website. But I created my profile at linkedin. My profile at naymz.com says - "This profile was created from information found on the public internet. Learn more here."(Some extracts quoted below).
Where did this information come from? Naymz finds this information in the same way major search engines like Google and Yahoo! does. We have proprietary technology which scours the internet looking for public information about people. We look to match up attributes found about individuals such as occupation, residence, or place of employment and then aggregate the information we find and place it in one easy-to-find profile.
I simply had to know where they got their information, so I made a search for Frederick Noronha (FN) who has been online(and spamming the internet eversince;-)) before I even knew how to use a computer. I got no results. I made more searches of all the people I knew on different social networks, blogs etc and found nothing. And at last I found someone on naymz. Luke Sequeira is another automatically created profile. It shows links(latest web activity) to his flickr pages but not to his blog. Why? Don't ask me.
Want to know something bizarre? In my latest web activity, I have my ma.gnolia.com, del.ico.us, blogspot and other blogs, Frederick Noronha's Blog, as well as Luke's Blog!!! It has gathered that I am from India and am a student at Goa University
Geez, Technology these days...
P.S. Just incase you know how they gather this info, please let me know.P.P.S4-Oct-07: I noticed that both FN and Luke have signed up to naymz!(and other points mentioned above have changed)
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