FAQ

Do I need an account on these social sites?

In most cases these sites reveal little or no information to users that don’t have an account so it would be wise to get an account. It is free anyway :-)

Why can’t I just use Google?

There are several advantages over a plain Google search! Some of them are:

There are several social sites that are not indexed by Google at all or in a very limited way. As has Tim O'Reilly agreed on: “Social sites like Facebook/Flickr grow exponentially without being indexed by Google”.
Depending on your privileges to the various social sites, you’ll always get the maximum information that you are allowed to get. For example if you are in someone’s network in Facebook you’ll get more information in snitch.name than you would get directly from a Google search.
Google will not necessarily give higher ranking to results that are “people profiles”, so you get a whole bunch of results from mailing lists, forums, etc. that might have little value to you.
With snitch.name you get all the results expanded in your page so you can print them all at once and have them available when you are away from your computer.

Why everything loads inside the browser?

This way you access the social sites using your own credential and get authorized for the maximum amount of information you are allowed to. Many social sites don’t have public/open APIs (eg. LinkedIn) and even the ones that do have would need you to authenticate again. This could be very impractical. With snitch.name the cookies you have stored in your browser already do all the work to authenticate you.

Is it better than other people-search-services?

Try yourself to see how superior snitch.name is!

Article: "Comparing snitch.name with PeekYou, Spock, Whoisi, YoName & ex.plode.us"