| Hey HN, I’m Jeremy, one of the co-founders of People Net (YC W24). We’re building an AI search engine for people (https://www.thepeoplenet.com/). Currently, search engines view the Internet as a collection of webpages. So unless you search for someone’s name, most “people search” queries fail [1]. We see the internet as a collection of people. At the People Net, we’re making every person on the Internet easy to find. Our first step is a Twitter profile search that actually works. Try it now: https://www.thepeoplenet.com/ Current Progress: 0.08% of internet citizens indexed (4mil / ~5.5bil) [1]:
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Query: “Professors building companies in the Bay Area” Big G:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Professors+building+companie... Little P: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/professors-building-compani... ChatBotGPT:
https://chatgpt.com/share/68093be4-cc6c-8007-9f50-2e9ec49c86...
** Not bad, but restricted to only famous (wikipedia-page-worthy) people X dot com:
https://x.com/search?q=professors%20building%20companies%20i... thepeoplenet.com:
https://www.thepeoplenet.com/?q=professors%20building%20comp...
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It would be good if the site showed it was searching. If I issue a new query there's no feedback that something is happening until the page changes, you're just stuck looking at irrelevant old results from the previous query.