While Googling someone, I stumbled across a different kind of search engine. ZoomInfo attempts to summarize your web presence and relationships. It’s interesting to see a commercial approach to gleaning the relationships of people from less-structured documents; similar projects have gotten a lot of attention (and money) from government counter-terrorism efforts.
For my own profile, they managed to find this site, albeit as an outdated RSS feed. Their guesses as to my relationships are interesting, apparently drawn from the captions of my many photos and the occasional blog quote:
- William Kent, deceased founder of Muir Woods, which I visited a few years ago
- Cheri Lowre, a UCLA medical professor I quoted in Babies and Life on Demand
- Paul Graziani, CEO of a local software company, who spoke at my masters graduation
At least online, I’m keeping some good company!
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