Yasni Puts the People in People Search - Keywords and Categories
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Now I'd like to focus on the rectangle you'll find on the right side in the earlier screen shot.
Obviously it's a keyword cloud, to which I can even add if I want. Since I know my friend, I quickly pick out two keywords I know apply to her, and can click on them to refine my results. (Hint: it's not the anxiety- and panic-related keywords; those relate to another Judith Bemis who literally wrote, if not THE book, at least several books on the subject). Below this box, by the way, is the image area; I'm a little surprised to see that no images of my friend turned up, when another people search engine I reviewed recently found a number of images of her.
Yasni provides other ways for you to refine your results. Moving on to the area where the list of results actually starts, you'll see some useful tabs:
Before I explain the tabs, let me explain the writing above them. Yes, Yasni did in fact display 30 results on this page. Clicking on “Show more than 200” on the right brings up a box that lets you ask to receive the rest of them via email. I'm of two minds about this approach, but given Yasni's resources and how long a full search would likely take, this is probably the best compromise.
As I mentioned when talking about the tag cloud, I found two keywords that related to my friend. It would have been nice if I had been able to click or highlight them both, because they dealt with areas of her life that did not overlap. While I got useful information, each time I clicked a keyword in the tag cloud, it brought up a different tag cloud – that did not include the other keyword of interest. That can actually be a plus under some circumstances; for example, if you're applying for a computer programming job, and an employer is looking for information about you, he'll click on the words in the tag cloud related to technology – and perhaps avoid discovering that you're a big NASCAR fan or some other thing that doesn't relate to a job offer.
To wrap up this section, let me tell you what sites Yasni went to for information. You may not have noticed it from the screen shots I displayed, but Yasni actually broke out the results by site. For Judy, it went to addresses.com, Amazon, Google Blogs, Find a Grave, and then the general web.
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